[arvidkahl]

At the same time, the 3D printing community is very much embracing AI as a means to circumvent price-gouging behavior by GW in particular. The popular STL slicer Lychee just recently added a generator tool at https://3dgen.lychee.co/ that has seen both massive protests from hobby community idealists and, as it's still around, likely a lot of adoption by the less vocal pragmatists.

We'll have to see how this plays out. Games Workshop is (supposedly) notoriously litigous, and they've gone after artists who get too close to their art style. AI models are trained on that, so this is going to be an interesting thing to monitor.

[oceanplexian]

It's not as fancy as that but I've had luck simply asking an LLM to generate an OpenSCAD file.

I wanted to adapt my bike balancer to an unusual sized wheel and simply measured the diameter of the rod and the outer diameter of the hole where the axle slides into, asked an LLM to produce an adapter, converted to an STL and hit print and got a fully functional 3D printed part. Felt like living in the future, maybe one step away from owning a Star Trek Replicator.

[red-iron-pine]

yeah this was my first thought too.

they don't want to use AI cuz they don't want anyone else using AI on their shit.

GW is publicly traded company that aggressively chases copyright issues and 3rd party 3d-printed minis, and it's hard to make that stick if you're also using the same stuff.

protecting your art means protecting the art of everyone, and in that sense is the goal. if/when it becomes more profitable not to then I'd imagine GW changes tack immediately...

[lifetimerubyist]

You mean a technology primarily created by stealing content without attribution is being embraced by people that want to steal without contribution? Shocking!