Check out this video from the appropriately named Eldritch Tabletop. On the surface, it's a look at his system for creating "Call of Cthulhu" tabletop handouts using Canva, ChatGPT, and AI generated art. The rundown of how to use the template system in Canva for creating documents from faux newspaper articles to letters is worth a look by itself, but he also touches on some of the issues with AI use.
Personally, I think generated text and art is an incredibly valuable tool for individuals. I've previously raved about the imagery from Midjourney. With the proper prompts you can quickly generate some impressive artwork for all sorts of handouts. What I'm definitely not crazy about is the massive proliferation of AI generated slop. There was a time, and it wasn't that long ago, that you could ask a search engine for "cthulhu idol" images and see the latest sculpts posted to the internet. Now? Those works are buried under a tidal wave of AI images.
It's an issue that hits close to home for me, since it's become increasingly difficult to find work I want to feature here on Propnomicon. Things were just about perfect right before COVID hit. Now the rising tide of visual noise and the intentional de-optimization of Google makes actually discovering new things an order of magnitude more difficult.
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