Illustrators behind the artwork for the fantasy role-playing franchise Dungeons & Dragons are now barred from using artificial intelligence for generating characters and scenery.
Dungeons & Dragons has long been known for its creative and visually fanciful artwork, but the creators behind the game recognized something was off when fans helped expose that an ax-wielding giant was created with AI, according to a report.
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Glitches and distorted limbs are typical signs of AI-generated art.
Hasbro-owned D&D Beyond, the team behind the game, announced that, until Saturday, it had no clue that at least one artist had used AI to make the artwork he was commissioned to create for a book titled Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants, the report noted.
The artist was shortly thereafter contacted by Hasbro subsidiary Wizards of the Coast.
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“He will not use AI for Wizards’ work moving forward,” D&D Beyond said in a statement posted to social media.
“We are revising our process and updating our artist guidelines to make clear that artists must refrain from using AI art generation as part of their art creation process for developing D&D,” the team said.
