I don't use AI to make my maps (yet)
This 'map' was generated by free Bing AI Image Generator, the prompt was: roadmap of a rural county with the city in the center from the atlas of great britain, 90's style
. I got to say that the colors and style are quite compelling, but the structure of those cities are all over the place, especially visible in how nonsensical bridges are placed. Not to mention, other 3 generated images are not even flat maps, just isometric images. The results clearly shows that there are not that many data (vide artistic images of maps on the internet) to teach consumer-grade AI how to draw maps. That's the proof that all my 'art' is mine. I can't draw such colorful images but AI can't make sensible road network. And even if, it's better in a long run to learn how to make nice illustrations or at least on stock stuff made by artists, than rely on AI slop.
Random map generated by Bing AI
I forgot what prompt I used, something about map of a city in UK, but who cares anyway, as a map it looks wrong lol
The point I want to make here however is that AI could help me in some way. Not even heavily advertized AI, just a good ol' procedural generating algorithms. Someday I would like to have a generator that is able to generate customizable and sensible height map and then based on it, generate again the easiest path network passable by humans and livestock, dotted with settlements in the most advantagous places. With that pre-generated map I could create some nice cities and countries truly based on the context of nature, that is, completely random, but following the physic's laws land unchangable and given by the singularity more almighty than any mortal being... I mean where was I, sometimes it's just easier when there is a context in which a new city is planned, drawing on the desert is not that convincing.
What a jumbled mess of a text, it's 4AM.