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The bottom line for me. More and more artists are coming out and saying, "Look this is really hurting us. Please stop." How callous do you have to be to look at them and say "I don't really care"?

@LouAnders it's a complex issue that has devolved into bickering between two sides who don't care about finding a middle ground and are defending their side even if what they want will harm them even more. You're either against it or part of it. You're either a thief or a good person. You know, the sort of division those in power love because it prevents people from focusing on what really needs to be addressed about the issue.

@victorjhurtado artists are asking us not to use it. That's enough for me to pause, cease to use it or post it, while issues with it are addressed. But "let me continue to harm you while I wait for someone to step in and address the harm you are suffering" isn't really a stance I'm comfortable with.

@LouAnders @victorjhurtado Based on the public discussion about this, I changed my position. Now I'm only going to use AI when it's trained on public domain imagery or on my own artwork, and still only going to use it for prototyping, not finished work.

Further, I'm still hiring artists for the majority of Silver Gryphon Games' published works. I will not use AI-produced artwork for any SGG products.

@victorjhurtado @LouAnders No. I use Stable Diffusion which uses my local GPU, and Dreambooth for training models (also local). It's not as user-friendly as using one of the websites, as it requires some technical knowledge.

As for getting better at painting faces.... well, there's only one way to do that, and that's practice, I'm afraid!