A slight refinement I'd suggest, is intricacy without intention.
When there us painstaking detail but that detail doesn't make any visual sense or add to the vibe/mood. that kind of detail would take a human artist a lot of time to implement so theyre not going to do it for no reason.
Diabolical Plots
There one easy trick to know whether a work is AI and it’s that it makes you feel like you are losing your mind.
It isn’t about details or gotchas, it’s that there’s no freaking intention anywhere to be found, you’re totally lost. And this v excellent portrait quite clearly is quite the opposite
Idil
FYI to the world: The cover art for the new edition of Plague Birds is not AI generated. Two people messaged me asking, so I want to be clear the art is purely human created.
Marcela Bolívar created the art for this cover and didn't use any AI at all. 1/
Jason Sanford
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