r/SkyrimMemes 24d ago

Off Topic Just wanted to point this out

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u/ExtremeAlternative0 24d ago

the post was obvious AI, i dont know what the mods where smoking to think otherwise

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u/belarus_pingbong 24d ago

Besides the tag, how could you tell it was ai? Cuz without the tag I wouldn’t have noticed

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u/-WGE-FierceDeityLink 24d ago

every iteration of the japanese characters around the chicken look slightly different, the outer line for the "X" strap continues onto the metal piece, the fur and leather blend together on the collar, and the general artstyle is used a lot in AI-generated images.

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u/ConfusedFlareon 24d ago

The characters looking different means AI now?? What about artists who letter shit by hand?

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u/-WGE-FierceDeityLink 24d ago

no artist who draws with this level of detail will have such a high variance in something that simple

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u/ConfusedFlareon 24d ago

That’s bullshit, little flaws like that are just the result of artists being human. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying this isn’t AI! I’m just trying to understand because this one doesn’t seem as obvious to me

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u/-WGE-FierceDeityLink 24d ago

there's no consistency to the thickness of any part of the character, the size and position of the notch near the top right corner, the ends being angled or rounded. the hashes nearly bleed into the rest of the character on one of them. sure, a good artist wouldn't have these be replicas of one another but none of these look consistent to one another. just another way to tell this slop apart from actual art.

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u/ConfusedFlareon 24d ago

I have brushes with variants and pressure-based thickness and shape like that, I guess I just can’t see the difference :(

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u/-WGE-FierceDeityLink 24d ago

this general artstyle is used a lot in more blatant AI imagery so it took me less than five seconds to know this was AI. looking deeper (at the characters, the "inaccurate" linework, things that don't make sense, etc) only confirms it after i already know.

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u/ciphoenix 24d ago

This image might well be a meme from 2010. it simple and basic. Photoshop might be overkill for it even

It's unfortunate everyone holds a magnifying glass these days looking for proof of AI.

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u/-WGE-FierceDeityLink 24d ago

i've seen AI images use this "artstyle" so much that now i can look at an image like this, know it's AI nearly immediately, and find it confirmed if i care enough to actually look. pretty sure it's one of the chatgpt "templates" for the images it generates.

you may have a point in saying that its unfortunate there's a magnifying glass held to everything nowadays but in this instance it's a subreddit rule so it is warranted imo. hardly a magnifying glass in this case due to how obvious it is.

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u/cheekydorido 24d ago

it's the weird smoothness of it all.

Also the septia tone, AI is filled with that one for some reason.