So yeah… maybe the turtle slowly waking up that he was just a Laptog for reddit and thrown away as soon as they didnt need him anymore ( moderation is allways a volunteer thing and shouldnt be like a 2nd job ).
So yeah… maybe the turtle slowly waking up that he was just a Laptog for reddit and thrown away as soon as they didnt need him anymore ( moderation is allways a volunteer thing and shouldnt be like a 2nd job ).
This case is actually even funnier because that mod turned out to be right! The art was AI generated! Aspects of other people’s watermarks and other AI giveaways were left in the final art so either the whole picture was ai generated and the sketches were done after or it’s all AI generated.
Edit: this might’ve been wrong. I’m unable to find my original source to back this up so take this story as hearsay. I’ll leave it up for history sake though.
Are you sure about that? I know that was the case with some recent AI-accused artists, but I haven’t seen this specific case mentioned.
The reason I ask is that:
A. There’s nothing I can find online. If you have a link, I’d love to be proven wrong.
B. After looking again art the image in question from January of this year, I don’t see any watermarks or AI tells (hands look perfect and natural, and I couldn’t spot any watermark residuals).
I think I might’ve been wrong here. I had heard and looking into it at the time but it’s possible I mixed multiple stories in my head that happened at the same/similar time. My original source was from a news YouTube channel that I watch/listen to but it wasn’t the headlining news of the video and it was months ago so I have no idea how to search it and see what sources they used.
Sorry if I accidentally spread any misinformation here.
No worries! You realized you might be wrong and corrected yourself. I forgive you, lol!
Apparently the artist provided a lot of evidence that it was his own work and had even provided the PSD files to journalists who reached out to him.
This seems unusually high-effort for ‘AI generated art.’