'D&D' artist admits to using AI for illustrations in new book

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Dungeons & Dragons' newest book, Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants!, has sparked controversy after one of the artists admitted to using artificial intelligence to assist in creating some of the illustrations. Ilya Shkipin, who has been working with Wizards of the Coast since 2014, posted on X (the social media platform formerly known as Twitter) that he used AI to generate "certain details or polish and editing" for his art. He later deleted his posts, but screenshots of them have been circulating online.

Shkipin claimed that most of his art was "enhanced with ai rather than generated from [the] ground up." However, this does not change the fact that he used AI-generated images without disclosing it in the book. It is unclear if Wizards of the Coast or D&D Beyond, who collaborated on the book, were aware of his use of AI in his process.

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