Edit: I accept I am wrong here. His style looks like AI slop to me. I see his responses in the screenshots. I’m wrong. I’ll keep my statement about slop as-is, though, since it’s true.
HELLO THERE!
DID YOU KNOW USING AI SLOP AS A CARTOON IS HARMING THE ENVIRONMENT?
Brian Ahearn may make poignant cartoons, but his use of generative AI to illustrate them is sad.
Its already a thing where random internet users will scream “AI slop” at indie game developers and many of them spend more time arguing that it’s not, showing evidence and still losing sales because of it.
The wolf spider art is familiar to me. It also is distinctly different from the salamander art to my eyes. I get it, my mistake. I have edited my comment.
Yeah as someone pointed out to me in another post.
AI slop stole from artists like these hence why it looks similar and some of us have this initial negative reaction.
Farking waste of air those thieving tech bros!
Edit: I accept I am wrong here. His style looks like AI slop to me. I see his responses in the screenshots. I’m wrong. I’ll keep my statement about slop as-is, though, since it’s true.
HELLO THERE!
DID YOU KNOW USING AI SLOP AS A CARTOON IS HARMING THE ENVIRONMENT?
Brian Ahearn may make poignant cartoons, but his use of generative AI to illustrate them is sad.Does he though??
I looked into it and found this from not even all that long ago.
I’m all for calling slop out, but we gotta be sure. It does kinda have that style but I don’t see other signs.
Edit: He’s posted his art on Instagram since at least 2020, well before AI image models could put out anything nearly passable.
Its already a thing where random internet users will scream “AI slop” at indie game developers and many of them spend more time arguing that it’s not, showing evidence and still losing sales because of it.
The wolf spider art is familiar to me. It also is distinctly different from the salamander art to my eyes. I get it, my mistake. I have edited my comment.
I don’t get the joke with the beaver.
Vanilla flavoring used to be made from castoreum, which is harvested from beaver anal glands
Something something anal glands
HA! Anal glands…
https://www.vice.com/en/article/a-history-of-flavoring-food-with-beaver-butt-juice/
I, too, lie about not using AI to make money.
How do you know it’s AI?
Yeah as someone pointed out to me in another post. AI slop stole from artists like these hence why it looks similar and some of us have this initial negative reaction. Farking waste of air those thieving tech bros!
Is he an AI artist?
I knew it was harming the environment.