[quote=@Half Pint]
Personally, I don't have any strong feelings either way in regards to the use of AI art within this context. I can understand people's aversion, especially in the wider context of the conversation around AI at the moment, but I personally think Bounce's use of it has been transformative, and with Spawn and Aquaboy I can see the use in a tool like this for creating strong visuals for characters who don't have any to go off of. While others may not care as much about visuals either on the character sheet or in banners, it does personally help me at times to visualise the stylistic differences in appearances to the canon characters. Whether this be through an AI image or a fan design, etc.

My only strong objection to the use of AI would be using it to generate text for your posts, which I don't believe anyone has done here (although I'm probably not the best at spotting it if there is any). We're here to craft a story together, and write together, not with a robot.

All that being said, I'm happy to weigh in on this, but honestly as a GM I don't think such a hot-button issue is something I should have final say over, rather its something we as a group can decide on. It seems people have very strong opinions on this, but I'd like to keep things civil here. I know a lot of you have known each other a lot longer than I have, so I'd just ask we give each other the benefit of the doubt when we're arguing our case here, whichever side of the argument you fall on.
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I think it's partly going to come down to quantity. I know we've all used visual media from time to time in these games, often for shock value or to stress a point when something big is going down. I feel like always running to AI is a crutch. Can you imagine how many more Q posts [@Simple Unicycle] would have written in his life had he not required to relentlessly search for images?

How many hours of his life he would have been able to spend being merry and falling in love?

To scroll through be enjoying reading posts and then you're confronted by numerous instances of it all in rapid succession... It's just not a nice feeling.