Ai illustrations....

[Imperial Dave]

Off for a shufties....

[Martin Smith]

The Yarkshire Gamer has been posting on Facebook about the AI-generated covers of recent editions of Wargames Illustrated, perhaps most notably the Roman legionaries disembarking from what looks very like a Viking longship.

Another cover of WI a few months ago showed ECW cavalry, one of whom was depicted with a flag that was larger than, and with a design pretty much based upon, an ECW infantry flag. It looked about 7 feet square.
I'd love to see how it went if the breeze blew up, or the troop commander ordered anything faster than a walk...😁.

What rattles my cage is that the editor will actually APPROVE this and let it be on the front cover of his mag. It demonstrates a serious disconnect from any suggestion that history might get in the way of using a cheaply generated picture...and we wargamers are, in general, pretty keen on at least a nod to history.

[Jim Webster]

AI needs careful handling. This one is a little out of period but it amused me  You cannot view this attachment.

[Erpingham]

So Kalashnikov stole the design from the Americans? Who knew?

[Imperial Dave]

 

[Imperial Dave]

and this has just come through in general

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyj4zky4zwo

[Cantabrigian]

The Yarkshire Gamer has been posting on Facebook about the AI-generated covers of recent editions of Wargames Illustrated, perhaps most notably the Roman legionaries disembarking from what looks very like a Viking longship.

While AI attempts at illustration are currently pretty humourous, the one thing you can be sure is that they will get better.  So in a few years time it's likely that they'll be pretty accurate.

So what do we do then?  It's not great news for illustrators, but then history is littered with professions that were made obsolete by technology.  You only have to look at the contrast between the original issues of Slingshot and the current ones to see an example of that - magazine layout is now possible for small distribution magazines because you don't need to pay someone to do it.

[Imperial Dave]

and the ability to spot fake/AI generated images will diminish...

[Nick Harbud]

I always thought it was the French Army that liberated Paris in 1944.... 

[Cantabrigian]

Another thought: has anyone experimented with using AI to make battle maps?