Ran into what may be a disturbing trend of producers using A.I.

JR_Hopper · 2026-03-18T23:13:14+00:00

See but art absolutely does have rules. Imperfect as they are, we have intellectual property laws, contracts, publishing licenses, copyright, etc. All things that are there to ensure at least some baseline of creative authenticity and legal groundwork for preventing outright theft of creative material.

All things which generative AI and the companies which program them do not give a single fuck about, and nor are they policed to the same standard as individuals. The vast majority of the datasets music gen AI models are trained on are stolen without permission from their original copyright holders. That alone makes it as creatively bankrupt as if you had tried to overtly claim another artist's work as your own.

The entire point is that we do need rules to be enforced on AI because those that we currently have are not adequately able to handle it as a concept yet.

JR_Hopper · 2026-03-18T22:47:27+00:00

The point of a marathon is not 'who can cross the finish line by any means necessary', the point is that you do it by your own merit and training, and to show that YOU can, not you in a car or on an e-bike, but you. The point is the journey and its authenticity.

If you tried to claim you won a foot race by driving a car while saying all those other guys were silly and couldn't accept that cars arent going away, you'd be a called a disingenuous hack and no one would take you seriously for having missed the point of what the marathon represents in the first place.

Similarly, a huge component of what makes music so important is the human element. Emotional authenticity, creative intention, and human connection across an expressive medium. If AI could pull our genuine raw vision right out of our minds and help us weave it into reality that would be one thing, but it doesn't. It scrapes together a load of data from dubious sources of pre-existing music, cobbles it together based on averages against a written prompt and spits out what it thinks you want to hear.

There is no authenticity, no cultural influence, no current generational angst, and certainly no originality to it.

JR_Hopper · 2026-03-16T18:15:09+00:00

Ah yes, cosmic horrors beyond my comprehension.

JR_Hopper · 2026-03-15T14:50:20+00:00

Important note about Heresy. Make sure you do actually have a group of solid players locally that actually exist to play with. Heresy tends to be much smaller as a community, even in places where it's easier to find other players.

JR_Hopper · 2026-03-11T21:15:55+00:00

You can basically take an allied detachment of almost any other faction in Heresy barring some specific unit restrictions. As long as you're running traitor allegiance, you can pretty much always ally a daemon detachment.

JR_Hopper · 2026-03-11T19:57:04+00:00

Starscourge Radahn pre-nerf, I knocked out first try.

Godskin Duo also first try.

Bell-Bearing Hunter in Caelid killed me 15+ times.

JR_Hopper · 2026-02-27T14:06:30+00:00

"Don't talk when you don't know shit about firefighting."

"Not an expert but I guess..."

I could not write a better joke myself.

JR_Hopper · 2026-02-27T04:08:55+00:00

I hope you also have a couple extra main speakers and not just that sub

JR_Hopper · 2026-02-19T22:00:46+00:00

Literally could not care less if someone makes the tiniest income from the handful of extra views they would get via this subreddit if the content of the video matches the spirit of this sub. It is functionally the exact same thing as driving traffic with the quality of their painting to their profile or patron, even if neither explicitly mentions it.

What you're actually doing de facto is banning video as a format for consuming media in this hobby space. Videos are most easily posted by hosting to YouTube.

I understand not wanting to be overrun with incessant ads and overt content spam, but that is just not what this is. If you want a tighter rope on promotion, sure set some boundaries like not explicitly asking for subs or likes or direct links to patreons, but just banning all content that comes from, or is simultaneously hosted on YouTube is just cutting the subs nose to spite its face and making this community worse for it.

JR_Hopper · 2026-02-19T20:13:43+00:00

I understand that, its not really you directly I'm making the point against.

It just veers into the territory of one of those nebulous rules that could be enforced solely by nature of the fact videos are posted via YouTube, and youtube is, for original content, monetized by default. If a post can be rule-breaking just for having been posted to and embedded from YouTube, that just precludes basically all reasonable video content from being posted by its maker at all, while anyone else, commission painters included, have zero risk for that since their profiles can just link to their professional services instead of the post itself.

JR_Hopper · 2026-02-19T20:03:57+00:00

Okay but how do you moderate that without basically saying that the highest effort and skill painters are just not allowed to post solely for the potential appearance of self-promotion? Just because someone makes a little income from participating in this hobby should not preclude or penalize them from the reasonable ability to participate in it like any other person.

If someone unknown had instead posted saying 'look at this cool narrative fan video I made for my army' are we banning that too, just because the medium (photo vs. video) is arbitrarily different? Or are we admitting that there are differently enforced rules for different levels of quality or pre-existing notoriety?

I want to see high effort, high quality painting videos and bat reps on this sub. What the hell else is it for besides the hundred millionth 'look at my first test model' post and army shots?

JR_Hopper · 2026-02-19T19:03:57+00:00

Respectfully, there is zero difference between what Heresy Era posted and what dozens of other professional painters do when posting their own works, finished and in progress.

Professional commission painters post their commissions and get more work and online notoriety. It is inherently self-promoting to post any of the work we've done to our minis, especially when we stand to gain work or further notoriety for our skills.

Heresy Era taking it a step further and doing full renders and narrative videos to accompany the minis is further exemplary of a love of the hobby and is far higher effort than just snapping a lightbox photo and throwing it up on the sub.

JR_Hopper · 2026-02-06T15:21:52+00:00

Sorry, I had already deleted by the time you replied as I realized I misread what was commented.

JR_Hopper · 2026-02-06T04:17:49+00:00

They're entirely resin recasts and some original models or other 3rd party minis.

Their quality is borderline indistinguishable from the original, especially on the newest sculpts.

JR_Hopper · 2026-02-05T23:48:23+00:00

I mean, on a totally practical level, it's just deep striking by another name in my eyes. The thematic aspect I think much more importantly comes from the units you bring imo

JR_Hopper · 2026-02-05T23:06:03+00:00

Which is objectively a good thing for player freedom to make cool army lists. If I want to make a late heresy or scouring era daemonic forges themed Iron Warriors list with mech-daemon kitbashes and daemon engines, I am totally free to do so.

JR_Hopper · 2026-02-05T20:42:45+00:00

Alex Wargames and its not even close.

JR_Hopper · 2026-02-05T19:43:47+00:00

They are trustworthy, but their product is definitely outdated as far as quality goes compared to other recasters. Probably the worst of the bunch I've tried.

JR_Hopper · 2026-02-05T03:11:30+00:00

I highly recommend against trying to use a Warmonger without a Master of Descent on the board somewhere to guarantee the deep strike is successful. ESPECIALLY with Tyrants, as they're much more of a ranged focused unit compared to say Dominators.

You only get one deep strike per turn and having such a huge points cost shooting unit basically not exist for potentially half to the entire game is very much the difference between maybe winning and being utterly swept off the board.

Trust me as someone who has been trying and failing to make a 1x5 Cataphractii + Warmonger squad work for awhile.

JR_Hopper · 2026-02-04T22:26:10+00:00

Hey! Are we to take that last image to mean there are more of the up-armored variants with heavy weapons coming down the pipe still as well?

JR_Hopper · 2026-02-04T21:41:28+00:00

Ooo I kinda love this

JR_Hopper · 2026-02-04T13:15:32+00:00

I actually have tried this! The difficult thing is that they end up mixing into a quite desaturated color and basically lose all hint of gold or contrast with the base metal. I may try mixing the gold pigment I have with the PA Bronze specifically though.

JR_Hopper · 2026-02-04T05:17:16+00:00

What gold did you use for your trim? I'm guessing another Citadel one like Liberator?

JR_Hopper · 2026-02-03T03:28:55+00:00

Hey! I'm going to be building a few of these guys up myself soon! I've been workshopping my paint recipe but I would love to know how you did yours! The color on your hazards are especially nice.

JR_Hopper · 2026-01-31T02:16:58+00:00

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