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i'm torn. if you want to have a portrait, generate it however you feel. i personally dislike AI art because i am a musician and [long rant excised] but y'know. it turned out one of our players really liked drawing and drew portraits of our characters that were better than what each of us did, which was really neat and special. but that didn't happen until each of us tried on our own first, right?
Not to mention, there's charm and motivation and growth in doing your best.
Silly crayon scribble? Cool, you did your best and it's YOURS. And this might motivate someone to express themselves further in pursuit of getting it "just right." It's fun. Like the game is fun.
But then yeah, we have "GeNeRaTe MuH pErFeCt OC pLz" Cool, your fantasy slop can go on the pile with the rest of the slop. Bleh. Nobody cares nor should they. It's nothing special.
I think a driving factor of Ai usage is people being intimidated and fearful to pick up a pencil because they think they'll get shamed to oblivion for not being born already a famous tiktokstagram artist with 10bil followers.