Line weight. The round eyes. The color. The exact same smile. Same angles to the viewer. 45 or direct... There are so many telltale signs.

Honestly the silver lining with all this is how innately obvious it is what it is currently.

Literally just reeks of the same level of effort as someone making a meme out of clipart or one of those boomers that uses that fancy Facebook status feature.

If you need to generate a hero image to make your witty tweet good enough to share, maybe go back to the drawing board

it's the exact same style used in almost all ai slop comics lately. you can tell by face alone; it's almost identical in all of them, even with different features (like facial hair).

It seems to spit this out whenever you ask for comic style. I couldn't tell you exactly what it is.

The colors in a lot of AI images are very yellow

In this case:

• this comic artstyle is very characteristic of AI, down to the line weight, facial expression (these soulless eyes and smile), and how the character is positioned;
• the bus has no door;
• the picture has a yellow-ish tint, which has been plaguing certain AI image generators ever since the AI Ghibli trend. They likely overtrained their slop machines on Studio Ghibli works and various other "cozy" artstyles/pictures.

Yes. It is that thing. Gotta have a gulag committee.

Edit: oh my fuck i thought that was sarcasm, do people really not even think of just not doing the atrocity bad thing ever, just not ever buildibg and maintaining that capacity?

Like, i don't have a process for deciding which neighbors I'm going to vivisect while they have a bad drug trip and are sexually assaulted in new and horrible ways before i throw them into my dungeon where i do psychological sadism to them and chop bits off until there's nothing left but some mostly denatured cardiac muscle and a spine.

Would be fucking creepy if i did. I hope none of my neighbors spend a second on thinking of doing that to me. It woukd be, perhaos, profoundly disturbing if anyone ever seriously considered, or even fantasized about, doing this to me. You understand that, right? Right?

The former, I don't believe the tech is up for the latter for another six months

more specifically i'd say AI slop is when the style and content are painfully generic, not everything generated is automatically slop, but it's very very very likely to be so.

They all have this exact art style, you'll start to see it everywhere.

it just the default gpt art style.

uniform line weight, creamy yellow ground, font and text placement.

All the AI drawings have a grainy piss-yellow tone, idk why but it makes the identification easier

Who has ever seen a yellow Canada tour bus? Pretty much the only yellow busses in US and Canada are for school.

The trees on the left are strangely offset upwards, there is a line down the windshield which I have never seen on a bus like that, the bus also does not have a door at the front, which they typically do, and to a lesser degree that yellow looks like it belongs to a school bus, while this clearly isn't one

The style used did it for me. It seems distinct for at least one popular engine (chatgpt?) as it pops up everywhere. Especially the face and hands.

ha. me too. just this week.

There's nothing about this image that can tell you with certainty that it's AI generated, but it's an art style that has been popular with AI generated images recently, probably due to the simplicity, which makes it harder for it to make mistakes. The trend means that a lot of junk has been showing up with this style and people have a negative association with it now.

Yeah same, I think a human artist would have put a door on that bus. But it's not proof.

Scrutinizing every little detail to see if I should care or not.

You don't have to do that? It's only a picture, the world won't end if you upvote something made by AI.

You could literally look at the pines at the bottom

It's the style of drawing, probably stolen from stock websites like this https://sozai-good.com/illust/person/mother/44455

They can add the tag once everyone has pointed it out to them if they honestly didn’t know but these comics are painfully obvious.

Fixed 👌.