An artist who worked on Dungeons & Dragons’ newest book, Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants!, has admitted to using AI to generate specific details in the artwork.
Gizmodo reported the news and found a screenshot from X/Twitter, even though the original social media share from artist Ilya Shkipin has now been deleted.
Fans spotted details in the illustration, tell-tale signs that a machine had rendered the image in the D&D sourcebook. The lack of human hands, for example, was a clue that human hands had not been used to make the illustration.
Wizards of the Coast, through D&D Beyond, has responded;
The xeet/tweet reads;
Today we became aware that an artist used AI to create artwork for the upcoming book, Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants. We have worked with this artist since 2014 and he’s put years of work into books we all love. While we weren’t aware of the artist’s choice to use AI in the creation process for these commissioned pieces, we have discussed with him, and he will not use AI for Wizards work moving forward. 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 art.
The new rules suggest that illustrations will not use AI art in the future. Wizards, however, have said nothing about text generated or improved by AI such as machine-learning-enhanced spellcheckers commonly used today.
Ilya Shkipin has embraced digital, launching an NFT company in 2021, as noted by Comic Book.
Glory of the Giants is out in digital form, available from D&D Beyond and due in print later this month.
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