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[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (24 children)

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.~~

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 67 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (9 children)

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.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I don't get the joke with the beaver.

[–] hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Something something anal glands

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago

HA! Anal glands....

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