WotC So it seems D&D has picked a side on the AI art debate.

[Charlaquin]

Can there be ethical AI? Absolutely. If none of the seed art was stolen it's ethical.

And if a frog had wings he wouldn’t bump his ass on the ground when he hopped.

 

[Clint_L]

And if a frog had wings he wouldn’t bump his ass on the ground when he hopped.

Well now I'm wondering about the mechanics of frog hopping, damn it.

 

[Vaalingrade]

It's definitely a real promotion by the movie, whose marketing is controlled by Paramount not WotC.

Can there be ethical AI? Absolutely. If none of the seed art was stolen it's ethical.

So possible, but will never happen at the corporate level.

 

[Dausuul]

That being said, I don't see anything right now on the Photoleap site or anywhere else that this is an official thing licensed by WotC. This may just be shady advertising.

If it is, they're going to get a C&D right soon. They're using WotC's trademarks liberally there.

 

[Vaalingrade]

If it is, they're going to get a C&D right soon. They're using WotC's trademarks liberally there.

You would think that. And yet.. ~gestures to the whole of social media advertising~

 

[bedir than]

If it is, they're going to get a C&D right soon. They're using WotC's trademarks liberally there.

It was promoted by the Honor Among Thieves on all of their platforms. The only classes being created are the ones from the movie. It's a movie tie-in.

It doesn't seem to generative AI, more like a remix of typical themes from class tropes

 

[Umbran]

It could also be that the film company has done a tie in, without checking with WotC first.

I would not expect WotC to have general veto power over advertising and marketing for the film.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Can there be ethical AI? Absolutely. If none of the seed art was stolen it's ethical.

Agree.

That would make it basically ethically designed/trained. It could still be used unethically, and probably immediately would be, but it would be a huge step up from the totally unethical/amoral or even immoral approach used by all major extant AI art generators.

Anyway, I think @Umbran is likely right here - this doesn't show WotC's attitude, this shows the attitude of the studio. It wouldn't be the first time the studio screwed up either - remember the poster with a bunch of stolen Pathfinder art?

 

[Benjamin Olson]

WotC are one of the companies that benefits most from AI art being stigmatized, having both a vast trove of art they've already paid for to recycle and being able to parlay being the publisher of both Magic and D&D to reuse art between the two to make properly human-created art more economical for them than for their competitors. Also the art is the most consistently high quality part of their products.

So yeah, this seems like the work of a marketing firm hired by Paramount.

 

[Vaalingrade]

WotC are one of the companies that benefits most from AI art being stigmatized, having both a vast trove of art they've already paid for to recycle and being able to parlay being the publisher of both Magic and D&D to reuse art between the two to make properly human-created art more economical for them than for their competitors. Also the art is the most consistently high quality part of their products.

So yeah, this seems like the work of a marketing firm hired by Paramount.

How does it benefit them to stigmatize AI art when you call them out specifically for having a vast trove of art they own and paid for to train an AI on completely legitimately if they wanted?