But they conveniently leave out that it costs money to do anything with AI. It's more like "open to anyone with a credit card." The vast majority of people don't have computers powerful enough to run generative AI models locally, and even then, server farms with a billion GPUs will always produce better results

This means that people have to rely on corporate platforms where you buy tokens that you use to get pulls at the various AI slop slot machines, hoping you get something decent. The mechanics more closely resemble a gacha game than any kind of artistic process

By contrast, learning how to draw, animate or make 3D models costs nothing. There's free tutorials and tools everywhere, and you can also just pirate commercial ones if you want

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[–] Comrade_Bones@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As someone who also has aphantasia, but still likes to draw sometimes, this feels so strange for me to read.

I would never pay an artist for a dnd character portrait - it is too expensive for me and while I like having a nice character portrait and it helps me have a better conceptualization of my character, it is not worth the time or money to get a real artist to make one. If not for genai, I'd just go on deviantart and use one somebody already made or like draw a really shitty one.

If you don't consider a drawing of your character to be worth any amount of money that you'd be willing to pay an artist, why do you feel the need to have one at all? And to say you'd go to an artist's page and use one of their character drawings as your own, something that artists famously hate, means that you don't even want to have a better conceptualization of your character since the drawing would just be of someone else's character. Also, I do think that any drawing you make on your own would be infinitely more charming than any generic overly polished piece of art generative AI could spit out.

[–] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Just because it has value to me, but imo that is not monetary value. And having that picture accurately represent how I want that character to be, even if it has weird eyes or an extra finger, is a benefit to me and helps me be immersed in the game. I guess like I'd pay someone money for that, but I wouldn't be willing to pay what their time is worth, you know? Like 10 bucks or something is not appropriate for someone spending an hour making a nice illustration - more like 75 would be appropriate, and that is too much for me.