New blog-post: "When online commenters 'detect' my art as AI"

→ davidrevoy.com/article1164/whe

Screenshots of comments from various platforms:

- but is WAY to similar to Al 
- Is this Al or just made to look that way?
- was the ai style in purpose too? 3
- Your art looks like low quality Al 
- Trying to figure out if this is ai
- Dang, it's crazy seeing the source art style to so00o many of those Al slop comics, kinda surreal.
- I have a feeling the faces feel off
- this isn't the transcript, this is just the exact same script you gave to the Al - this art looks hella ai generated
- Nice comic. What prompt? 
- Shitty Al art
- AI? LMAO .
- You must be John Art because it seems that it stole from you the most
- Is it me or the proportions looks like Ai art? — Open image attachment ⁨1⁩ of ⁨1⁩
Screenshots of comments from various platforms: - but is WAY to similar to Al - Is this Al or just made to look that way? - was the ai style in purpose too? 3 - Your art looks like low quality Al - Trying to figure out if this is ai - Dang, it's crazy seeing the source art style to so00o many of those Al slop comics, kinda surreal. - I have a feeling the faces feel off - this isn't the transcript, this is just the exact same script you gave to the Al - this art looks hella ai generated - Nice comic. What prompt? - Shitty Al art - AI? LMAO . - You must be John Art because it seems that it stole from you the most - Is it me or the proportions looks like Ai art?

Replying to @⁨davidrevoy@framapiaf.org⁩

@davidrevoy Man... You know, the really, really bizarre ones to me aren't the ones that, like, accuse you of using AI, despite you having literal decades of documentation and video proof of your hand.

It's the ones that accuse you of deliberately using an AI style, as if you're trying to trick them into thinking it's AI?

I wonder if some people just genuinely can't tell the difference between corporatized AI "style" and a soft, stylized cartoon with warm colors and a painterly texture.

Replying to @⁨ToonLink@fandom.ink⁩

@ToonLink Yes, that's why I'm on alert: many people now think my art is just as bad as "AI slop", and I understand why.
So I feel torn: I don't know if I should adapt, shift and bend my style until it's no longer "identified as AI", or if I should abandon the aesthetic that's such a big part of me (if only I can?). I'll think a lot about it while painting on the next weeks. I'll also take a little bit of holidays in August, I think it is the right time for it.

Replying to @⁨davidrevoy@framapiaf.org⁩

@davidrevoy @ToonLink This, too, will pass. Internet commenters have always been Like This™; it is wise not to heed them so much.

I'm a fairly prolific internet commenter, but many of these people spend entirely too much time writing posts online, and not enough trying to understand the world. Their opinions are superficial, and widely disseminated.

When they make specific criticisms, saying this or that feature "looks AI", that's most likely a post-hoc rationalisation of their gut instincts.

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