Raw LLM Responses

Generative AI is, as its name admits, generic. The most likely combination of attributes based on data scraped from artists to try and match the prompt provided. It's boring and soulless. I'm an amateur artist, only dabbling for the fun of it or to provide a piece of the world to the players in my campaign. The quality of my work isn't amazing, but my players can look at a flyer for a jewelry shop and maybe catch an Easter egg in the ring design I chose. Or they might notice a faint symbol scratched in the corner - a clue. Maybe they'll notice the woman with scales - a dragonborn within my world who only developed some of the visual traits. The name of the shop, presumably the shop owner, Is yet another reference. And the flyer is modeled after an old French advert, giving it a sort of elegance that will contrast the fiery temper of the owner. More accurately, I traced the figure from the advert (credited to the best of my ability), and there are artifacts in the linework that give this away which I don't try to hide, because these flyers are made with in bulk within a world that can't produce perfect copies easily. There's a crease in the paper, worn edges, and a few stains that tells my players that this flyer has been carried for a decent amount of time. And the flyer itself only exists to communicate to my players that magic items are not one-size-fits-all as they have been in most of our other games. Most of this information would not have made it to page if I used Generative AI. Almost everything listed here was a decision made as a part of the process of intentionally putting pen to paper (digitally). I wouldn't have though to use the ring design I chose if I hadn't been researching French adverts and come across one which inspired the addition of a ring. And I don't even know how I would represent how the magical ancestries of my world work, even if I had considered it. This flyer is not the cleanest piece of art, but it has depth, it was fun to make, and there is a sense of pride I feel in sharing it with my friends and having them dig into those details.