My problem with the D&D stuff is that , good art is the point to buying one of the sourcebooks. And the AI versions are plainly, not as good. This is taking something that was lovingly made, and at the top of it's field and being replaced with something worse and cheaper. Here's what they replaced it with which imo. is just clearly better.

This stuff prints money. If they're not even willing to pay artists the insulting amount they currently do, how will commercial art ever get made? This isn't a hacky product review, its a main course offering by the biggest name in fantasy illustration. This would be like the New York Times Kissinger obit. being ChatGPT filling in notes.

Re: Content-aware fill , etc. this feels different to me. That's automating what is a complicated but relatively mechanical process where the goal is to look as unassuming as possible. AI is very good at giving coherent and unassuming. I love what AI is doing for photogrammetry, & i like the Pixel camera stuff. When indie people use it to make their low budget work look nicer thats cool, though its often looks distracting and out of place.

But the AI being used here is making the world cheaper and blander