On Twitter.
Short version: somebody used an AI-generated picture for the cover of their free RPG supplement, which is… fine, it’s their life. Then they decided to turn everything up to 11, because Twitter. My own opinion is AI-generated art won’t generate me sales, so I won’t use it. Using human artists does, so I do.
Well, that’s one of my opinions. Some of the other ones are a little too unkind to state too clearly. I wasn’t actually looking to start fights today: I know, I know, how the mighty have fallen…
I’ve basically been thinking for a minute or two now that the best way to use the current batch of those things is probably for inspiration. Inputs, then, to the creative process instead of outputs. Maybe future versions will be effective replacements, and everyone can have this argument all over again.
Eh. I’m pretty sure that the last time I saw a book cover where the character displayed mirrored the character in the book, was Dragonlance.
I’ve seen some really cool landscapes, but most needed a little fine-tuning to get beyond the level of concept art.
Getting anything specific has glaring limitations. (I just want an M. C. Escher repetition of donkeys and elephants fornicating. Is that really so much to ask?)