AI Generated Content?!?!?!?!

 So, I am doing a great Coursera course on AI to help me bone up for a chapter on AI and Society I have agreed to write to help me widen my appeal to Canadian universities. I had to prompt and refine something so here is what I did (not the pic, the content below it).

AI Generated Elric pic from the web

Chaos Prompt Engineer?

Here is the prompt I wrote:

Create a new monster for the Stormbringer RPG using the article Moorcock Bestiary on the Tomb of Tedankhamen blogger.

Based on the content from the Tomb of Tedankhamen blog, here's a new monster for the Stormbringer RPG:

AI Content

### The Shadowed Harbinger

#### Description:

The Shadowed Harbinger is a dark entity from the Plane of Shadows, embodying fear and darkness. It appears as a tall, cloaked figure with an ever-shifting form, its face hidden beneath a hood that reveals nothing but an empty void. Whispering shadows trail in its wake, spreading dread and confusion.

#### Attributes:

- **STR**: 3D6+6 (15)

- **CON**: 2D6+6 (13)

- **SIZ**: 2D6+6 (13)

- **INT**: 2D6+6 (13)

- **POW**: 3D8 (15)

- **DEX**: 3D6 (10)

- **CHA**: 1D6 (3)

#### Abilities:

- **Fear Aura**: Any creature within a 10-meter radius must succeed on a POW vs. POW roll or be paralyzed by fear for 1D6 rounds.

- **Shadow Manipulation**: The Harbinger can manipulate shadows to create illusions or hide within them, granting it +30% to Stealth and allowing it to disappear and reappear within 20 meters.

- **Life Drain**: On a successful melee attack, the Harbinger drains 1D6 POW from its target, healing itself by the same amount.

- **Dark Vision**: It can see perfectly in complete darkness.

#### Combat Skills:

- **Unarmed Attack**: 75%, 1D6+3 (Life Drain effect)

- **Shadow Whip**: 60%, 2D6, range 10 meters

#### Armor:

- The Harbinger has a natural armor of 6 points due to its shadowy form, reducing damage from physical attacks.

#### Special:

- **Difficult to Harm**: The Shadowed Harbinger can only be harmed by magical weapons or spells.

- **Binding Ritual**: To bind the Harbinger, a sorcerer must perform a ritual requiring a rare shadow gem and the blood of a fear-stricken creature. The ritual includes a POW vs. POW struggle, where the Harbinger's POW is rolled as 3D8.

This monster, inspired by the various entities and binding rituals discussed on the blog, offers a unique challenge to adventurers in the Stormbringer RPG【9†source】【10†source】【11†source】.

Verdict

This monster, like the AI Elric portrait I added above, is incredibly trite and boring compared to what I slavishly created for this blog and for a zine coming out this year. I don't know if Moorcock has voiced his opinions on AI art, but I hope he'd agree that this soulless, corporate content pales in comparison to anything human passion and imagination can create. There is a meme making the rounds (couldn't refind it sadly) that goes something like,

It took AI to make me realize how terrible art without soul can be.

Truer words were never spoken.

Fuck AI 'art'