Yeah thats why i thought so too, but this artist is just a fucking madman and exclusively draws weird shit like this. I cant remember the name but its easy enough to reverse image search.

He's been around longer than AI fuckery. He also builds elaborate story lines around these animals, especially the raccoon.

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This doesn’t really strike me as AI. AI composition tend to place the subject right in the center (the most statistically average place for a subject).

Ai generated images always hit me as stale and soulless. They strike me as the repeated distillation of a statistical average.

Even putting aside the absurdity of the subject, this doesn't give me those vibes.