It came to my attention that DrivethruRPG added some new selections for products.

Publishers get a series of boxes to check when putting up their product for sale. There are a lot of options–from rulesets (OSR, Savage Frontiers, Traveller–there is like 16 options that are then broken down even more…OSRIC, OSE, Labyrinth Lord, etc.). Lot’s of choices!
Then there is Product Type, Genre, Format, Languages….all broken down quite a bit more….

ANYWAYS—DrivethruRPG added a box under Format that has Creation Method, which has 2 choices: Handcrafted and AI-Generated content.

“AI-Generated Content
We have recently deployed two browsing options on our new DriveThruRPG marketplace and DriveThruComics PHNX Preview. Customers can now choose to filter out AI-Generated content in their Account Settings, and titles are now clearly labeled as Handcrafted or AI-Generated if the publisher has selected one of those options.”

My point for this post is that I didn’t really notice until someone brought it to my attention. All of the Merciless Merchant products use either stock art or commissioned art from human artists EXCEPT for Slyth Hive by PrinceofNothing and maybe NAP stuff which I don’t have as much control of as its various authors (and it’s free). This is the main reason why we do Kickstarters–so we can commission kickass art done by humans.

Also, for the record, I’ll speak for Jonbar and myself here that we never use AI for our written content. All of the mispellings (see what I did there?) and errors are lovingly crafted with our own brains. So in all transparency, I just finished updating all our products to say handcrafted, except those noted above which used some AI art.