“Try and become an AI user” lmao, you just put words in like “big boobie anime babe” and “trending on artstation”. Sprinkle in a bit of “[artist’s] style” when you’re feeling particularly theft-inclined that day.
What is there to “try”? Don’t answer that.
Have they managed to make AI art not look very spooky in a slightly off-putting and difficult to define way yet?
That is exactly what I meant
Read above
I think there are some instances where a human hand was in over to touch it up but I could be mistaken.
Artbreeder was a cute novelty but I never used it. Now this stuff is oversaturated and exhausting and I dread the day when game development latches onto AI as a means to generate free assets, putting artists out of work and promoting the most generic common denominator, ultimately training people out of appreciating art altogether.
To me, saying “best to try and become an AI user” implies a defeatist approach, with a lack of alternatives being available. I don’t think there’s an actual need for anyone to apply AI to their process. If that was indeed what you meant, we’re agreed.
I unironically had fun creating some truly eldritch abominations on that site. It got old in like an hour, but I like to think my cosmic horrors still haunt the dark corners of some digital archive.
AI or machine generated imagery is inherently theft unless you somehow have your own algorithm solely trained on your own pieces of work and nothing else on the whole internet.
Unfortunately what was a usefull tool in the industry has become a rampant art theft 
machine flooding the internet and as mentioned drowning out some artists including big names too.
I would spit on people using it if I could. There is nothing art in it, only shame and theft.
https://www.ign.com/articles/silent-hill-ascension-developer-insists-it-was-written-by-real-people-amid-ai-accusations
The extremely pro-AI CEO insists it wasn’t written by AI, but BerryMan just seems too inhuman to be anything but, in my eyes.
To everyone struggling with their feed or google-searches being flooded with AI gurgitations, try using -AI_generated. That should sort out most of the computer-generated imagery.
On a side note, it would be fun if people started uploading cubist or formalist artworks with tags like “Elf”,“Landscape” or “beautiful” or whatnot, so that when it’s eventually scraped by the algorithm, it messes up the dataset.
Also, RP characters don’t strictly need an art reference. It’s a nice bonus, but it’s completely optional.
Out of all characters I’ve ever roleplayed, only two have commissioned art. For the rest, I’ve got by with screenshots and verbal descriptions perfectly fine.
Even besides the point conclusively hammered in this thread that AI generated images are plagiarism (which I agree with), the result very rarely looks like what you have in mind, and there’s no real person behind it whom you can ask to make modifications. Better to just describe what you have in mind, in text.
I’ve answered Loras’s summons, and shall for now take a break 
You’re the Blue Eyes White Dragon to my Seto Kaiba.
Yeah until very recently I’ve never had art for any of my characters and I’ve been roleplaying for almost 20 years across various games/forums.
Why… wouldn’t it be okay? Not like you stole it from SOMEONE
It can also help people who struggle with expressions, writing or spelling to do some practice with describing their character. It helped me a ton even if I still tend to be a bit blunt with character descriptions.
As mentioned too, it doesn’t need to be overtly detailed or fanciful, but doing a little write-up adds alot.
Out of my WoW characters, I got like 2-3 and then one more for an Swtor character. And while its nice, it’s more as a fun personal addition and token of memory than anything more.
I have on a few occasions run into people who’s seen artwork as a sort of barrier to entry/prestige in, in that they won’t interact or think you’re not as good if you don’t have 12+ commissions, but that has been very rare and they haven’t been worth the time.
Also again on the topic of AI theft, I think AD has proven itself plenty of times already that it is incapable of having a tool like this. We’ve already in the last few years alone seen several grifters trying to sell AI art as “real commissions”(Last one was only a week or two ago) or spam-uploading it to AA under the guise of being their personal drawings.
You wouldn’t steal a Mercedes if you couldn’t afford one: You’d save up until you could.
… Or you’d realize having an expensive car isn’t necessary and make do with the perfectly fine second-hand you already have. Or Public transportation. Or cycling. There are alternatives to owning a fancy car.
Did you ask the creators for permission or payed them to look at their art?
Are you one of those people who think the way humans learn from art and create art equals how these AI generators learn from images and produce images?
Yes.
Only if you’re profiteering from it.
Any other argument is neo-Luddism.
AI art has been said to be public domain and open source, meaning it is the same in a philosophical sense as open land. You don’t profiteer from people walking over mountains or fishing out of lakes (i know some do, and they are evil people).
For the sake of hobbyists, which is what roleplay is, go wild. If it helps give you a greater connection or immersive feel to what you are trying to produce with your character then there is no reason not to.
Using it to write your roleplay though… that’s another matter.
You should contact the moderators when you encounter stuff like that. AA has a separate AI generated image category.
For FFXIV RP, I asked Acrona and other artists on the Chaos RP Discord for advice, and they were unanimously in favor of banning AI images on Chaos Archives, so I amended the rules accordingly.