The Culture: Democratizing The Use Of Art For Coin & Culture Alike

Earlier this past week I posted the following to Twitter.

I used Grok--the site itself, not via Twitter--to generate them.

I am using this for the Tower Campaign specifically as references for players, and I have been generating images for characters, items, locations, and events for some time. I've settled on this Lodoss War style look because I like it, and it meshes well with other gonzo elements in the campaign.

"But how?"

I asked. Specifically, I ask the machine. "I want to do (x). How do I use you to do this?" is what I would say, and it would give me the prompt as well as explain why it do it that way. I used the prompt, and you see the results. If you want a machine to produce the output you want, it's smart to learn how to input things to get that output, and with widgets like Grok you can just ask the widget to tell you what it wants and why it wants it that way. For others, like Tabletop games, you have to actually study the manuals and use the widget to map out the results and see the emergent properties manifest.

For private, non-commercial use there is nothing objectionable about this. I'm not made of money; I use Grok on the Free tier and get these results.

I'm making these images so that all of we players are on the same page when it comes to (X), whatever (X) is, same as it is with maps of any kind. We need to stop freaking out about LLM-generated images made for private use.

As for commercial use, that's for another post. In the meantime, enjoy the shitpost.