Sessyoin_Kiara said:
duosix_setsu0408
They had a shift in artstyle in the middle of the year and have been putting out Shirakami Fubuki and Kawakaze illustrations en masse, which makes me think AI is involved.
Definitely. The artist it's been active in Pixiv since 2021; back then his drawings were clearly made by a novice, and he was showing a natural grown, for example, here and here. These two images have two years of diference, and as I said, the artist was having a normal development in his abilities. However, he's suddenly posting things like this, or this. If you pay attention, the tweets I've attatched have only two days of difference, and were posted in November of this year. In months, he reached the progress he couldn't in two years, and also he's posting too quickly for human standards.
This is the case of a beginner artist who gave in and is starting to use AI in his illustrations. The most recent upload under his artist tag, post #7019545 has various inconsistencies; those inconsistencies are present in the rest of his most recent images (From August to the present month of this already ending year), which leads me to believe he's using the same AI software and the same promps to mass generate his images.