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Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x06 "Come, Let's Away" (startrek.website)
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[–] 21 points 9 months ago* (6 children)

The comic is not “AI generated”. One of my friends reached out to the VFX supervisor for the show on Mastodon and they said the art department drew and colored it.

I think it’s also important for us to fact check things before assuming. I know “AI generated content” is being used a lot but there are designers and artists that are very much against its use.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I follow Brian Tatosky on mastodon as well, and he says, "as far as I know" it was drawn and coloured by the art department. That is not a confirmation one way or the other.

    But I went through and screenshot every image that was on screen of the comic pages. I would believe the art department mocked up the cover, but you cannot convince me the interior pages shown weren't shat out of an LLM.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I'm with you. It seems at least in part it was AI. The shoulder is shadowed but the sunglasses are giving off a (double?) glint?

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I’m really not seeing any obvious AI tells. It looks to me like it was drawn and inked traditionally, and then someone dropped in the little flares to up the cheese factor (and maybe give a little reference to JJ). I may be wrong, it’s getting hard to tell these days, but to me it just looks like someone trying to emulate a very typical comic book style.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    OK, I've seen the images in the other thread now, and I'm seeing much more convincing evidence of AI generation there.

    Like, everything about these arms looks wrong: https://imgur.com/DiRNxEY

    And these shadows are just nonsense: https://imgur.com/TMZY25V

    Honestly, I'm personally not too bothered if a background prop you're not supposed to get a good look at is made with AI, but I'm also not going to argue with anyone who takes a real hard line on the subject.

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