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AI-generated art check thread

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LightSolas

LightSolas said:

The weirdly formless game controller and her 4 1/2 toes in post #6896465 make me think it was at least AI-assisted, if not generated.

Can I get some input on this? I can't see anything else from the artist that would indicate AI involvement, but the details I mentioned here seem really suspicious.

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user 1099148

LightSolas said:

Can I get some input on this? I can't see anything else from the artist that would indicate AI involvement, but the details I mentioned here seem really suspicious.

Doing some research in the Pixiv, Twitter, and Boosty profiles of the artist left in her tag info, I found various interesting details. First, she joined in 2022. Secondly, in her Pixiv page she claims she's 19 years old; her birthday is in March 31, so she started to publish her drawings a year ago, more or less, thus meaning she started her career as an Internet artist having 18 years old. Third, she's russian, and has a Vkontakte profile too, where she has published a few time-lapse drawings, here, here and here. You can see the final results of those time-lapses here, here and here.
Pay attention to the upload dates; they're from a year ago, excepting the Hu Tao one, which was four months ago. The artist is showing a consistent growing and advances in her artstyle. Most of the images of the artist are in her Pixiv, and her Twitter. Let's add to this the fact she hasn't show any signs of suddenly changing to AI art to create her pictures. No crazily constant uploads, no demential progress yet inconsistence in the art style, and she constantly gives retweets to other fellow artists and even some memes about art. As an additional note, in the beforementioned Vkontakte profile, the artist says she uses Clip Studio Paint as her drawing software.

With all this information gathered, my conclusions are that we stood with a young and inexperienced artist trying to survive in a hostile Internet, where new artists are questioned if their style is remotely similar to an AI-generated image. I doubt she's even using AI for assistance, because while there are inconsistences, the incosistences feel 'human', and not the typical AI inconsistences, especially when you notice how she's trying to experiment with different brushes in CSP even in her earliest jobs, this one being the perfect example of that affirmation.

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c spl

worth noting Morgan can have different hair colours so it's probably just the rare art of her without the default black

though still yeah it's hard to tell it's Morgan

also her tongue has some melting, though it might be intentional/human

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8253803

Veraducks said:

post #6956095
Pretty much everything recent from this artist. That image is supposed to be morgan_(female)_(fire_emblem), but it'd be impossible to call it that were it not for the pixiv tags/commentary.

Nameless_Contributor said:

Don't see any signs of AI involvement.

I'm guessing traced over AI, because the pictures look AI from the face and shading, yet look human in terms of brushstrokes and texture.

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user 1099148

8253803 said:

I'm guessing traced over AI, because the pictures look AI from the face and shading, yet look human in terms of brushstrokes and texture.

Traced over AI could count as AI-assisted, or not? Assuming of course it was traced over AI and it's not just the style of the artist or an experiment.

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SlaughteredMelon said:

Traced over AI could count as AI-assisted, or not? Assuming of course it was traced over AI and it's not just the style of the artist or an experiment.

With that assumption, it is AI-assisted.

The question remaining is whether this is indeed traced over AI.

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user 1099148

8253803 said:

With that assumption, it is AI-assisted.

The question remaining is whether this is indeed traced over AI.

Understood. Thanks for the answer. I did my research again with this artist and I didn't found any indications of the use of AI; not even AI-assisted, only an honest artist doing his artwork in Clip Studio Paint and accepting commissions in Sketch JP. His Twitter is flooded with retweets, I had trouble by locating his own tweets. Nevertheless, what I found was a few retweets of tutorials to paint skin and miscellaneous tutorials to draw in general, something strange considering is an artist with at least four years of experience and enough money to buy a professional tablet. He also has a few tweets disagreeing with the AI use, here and here. (Reminder that I don't know japanese and I'm using Google Translator, so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.)

Due to all of this, I am assuming he's only experimeting with his art style. I don't know if the final results were the expected by the artist, but suddenly changing his mind after buying a professional tablet valued in thousands of yens and start to use AI seems unlikely to me.

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Coprolite

So, does some of Hiita's later works could be considered AI-generated or not?

While his earlier, obviously AI-generated image were deleted, the newer image seems to be a mix of very probable AI to genuine art. Especially since some characters were drawn a little off compared to the source material, like this art of KC's Shimakaze and Pokemon's Cynthia. Meanwhile some such as this Lady Lab's art (post #6968413) and DMG seems to be genuine.

I'm still 50/50 on judging whether this is an AI account or not, given that I feel somewhat familiar with his style, yet the image seems to be quite clean for an AI.

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punished_K said:

https://twitter.com/CloneManga/status/1733919178271142191
https://twitter.com/CloneManga/status/1733921278698885140
https://twitter.com/CloneManga/status/1733924365442421116

I think Dan is messing with AI art?
Or he could be saying he is, for the memes.

In the last tweet you shared, he said Not bad... but not quite right. I guess I'll just have to do it myself after all, ha ha ha, implying he indeed used AI to generate those images. Also, pay attention to the letters of the fictional news in the last two images; the letters appear to have this strange 'liquidify' effect, proper of the AI generated images.
This liquidify effect is also present in other images in the rest of the tweets, but you have to be sharp-eyed to detect them. Look to the image of the blonde maid with twintails kicking the robots, and the image of the maid with grey hair and blue dress; these images are the ones with more inconsistencies if you watch them carefully. If you're using a smartphone, it'll be easier to see them if you use the manual zoom in the images.

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kittey

myhm said:

post #6972265
The background is definitely AI-generated, right?

Yes, I think so too. The character might be traced over AI too, considering the wonky hands and some odd fashion choices like having buttons on both sides of the collar, but it’s hard to tell.

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