DriveThruRPG, the largest online platform for the sale of TTRPG PDFs and print-on-demand titles, has added a new browsing option which allows customers to filter out AI-generated content.
By default AI content is set as viewable. The new setting allows you to choose between Handcrafted (no AI involved), Contains AI-Generated Content (part of the product is AI), and Creation Method Not Chosen By Publisher. The filter is found in the user account settings under Additional Preferences.
DTRPG's AI-Generated Content Policy (as of July 2023) requires sellers to indicate whether AI was used in the product, and will not accept "standalone artwork products that utilize AI-generated tools to make content." Additionally they will not accept "commercial content primarily written by AI language generators." However, titles partially created by AI are permitted.
Where a community content program (such as DMs Guild, Storyteller's Vault, Cypher System Creator, and so on), the AI policy is set by the publisher who owns the program.
Many TTRPG publishers, including Wizards of the Coast (although WotC's policy seem at odds with CEO Chris Cock's own statements), EN Publishing, Kobold Press, and more, have declared AI policies which exclude the use of AI art or text in their own products. WotC's previous communications director Greg Tito cited WotC's stance on AI as "..one of the major reasons I left. People above me just didn't understand that basic concept."
On the flip side, many artists are being accused on social media of using AI when they haven't, with people using any imperfection in an art piece as evidence of AI creation.
