'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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'Magic: The Gathering' developer exposes data of 452,000 players

Wizards of the Coast, the developer of Magic: The Gathering, exposed user data of 452,634 players because of a security lapse. The Washington-based game maker left a file in a public Amazon Web Services storage bucket without a password or encryption, giving anyone access to the information. 

The data included 470 staff email addresses, players' names and usernames, email addresses, the date and time the accounts were made, and hashed and salted user passwords. The account data ranged from 2012 to 2018.

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