AI Generated Discontent
Human creativity is a wonderful thing.
There’s some uproar in “the business” about AI generated illustrations. It is time for Solitaire Times to take a stand. Let’s join the choir, shall we?
Boo!
You don’t need AI to create rubbish! People are so much better at it.
We care a lot
Beginning or independent game designers may not have the money to hire artists. In the past they used copyright free material, now they turn to AI. And that’s alright. But bigger companies have no other excuse than greed. Grrreed! It’s like not thinking up your own setting for a game but using something imagined by a creative person who happens to be dead for 70+ years so it’s up for grabs. We would never, ever accept big companies publishing a Lovecraftian themed game. So why would we accept games with artwork that hasn’t been payed for?
Oh.
That’s right. We don’t care. Like these companies, we are cheap. And for the same reason we don’t care if somebody uses AI right now. The only thing that matters with a Cthulhu game is whether it’s good or bad. The only thing that matters with people using AI… you know what? I’m going to call them artists, this is just another tool. The only thing that matters with artists using AI is whether the art they produce is good or bad. Right now, human beings are able to produce both better good art and better bad art with conventional tools. So AI generated content sucks. But soon that will change. And we’ll adapt.
Fearing transformation
Still, people have joined The Resistance. Threatening to eliminate anyone touching AI. Because things were so much better when we were young and a man was a man and when he needed a shed, he built it
with his
own
bare
hands.
So yeah, alright. Let’s not use AI. Let’s not use Photoshop. Let’s not use the internet. Let’s not use any electronic equipment. And let’s harass anyone who does. But why stop there?
Hey! You! Why didn’t you have that rulebook written by a professionally educated writer? Why didn’t you have her write it with a quill? Why didn’t 1,000 monks copy those rulebooks for mass production?
Why didn’t you transport your games on a cart, going from village to village?
Why didn’t you use a town crier for your marketing?
Why don’t you grow your own food?
Why don’t you live in a cave?
Why don’t you have an original thought?
Why, oh why, do you even exist?
Please, please, please world, why don't you leave me alone!
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