This was cooked up in a lab as the perfect bait for hexbear
Either trolling or they have no idea what AI art looks like. Even if I didn't already know this wasn't AI, it has none of the hallmarks.
I actually think Disco Elysium helped popularize the style a bit just before the AI-image boom stuff.
I invoke my right to declare today as the day where I miss every obvious bit I come across. I have done it twice today and I will not be stopped
Not yet, but I suspect that at some point in the future it will become standard practice to document your process of making art exhaustively to avoid being called a "prompt engineer". It'll be like streaming your speedrun attempts - if you're respected enough in the community you can get away with not doing it, but if you just show up one day with a good run but no documentation it's a little sus.
I've seen a lot of posts on sites like Instagram and Tiktok where artists post their timelapses proving they weren't using AI, so it seems like the future is now
What happens when you hire the cheapest artist on tumblr
