Yeah, whether AI is involved or not. Humans are more than capable of producing slop.

Not that they were in this case.

His sleeve is also really weird on his right. Where does the reindeer end and the sleeve begin?

Maybe that's just a santa thing?

Bottom right looks the least AI for sure, but the composition is a bit sus to me. Santa on an armchair with quilts, donuts (?), and a teddy bear is really disjointed, but not outside the realm of someone making choices incomprehensible to me.

That's slop. It's the most convincing to be sure.

The pieces that are supposed to look like they have brush strokes all have bizarre looking strokes. Bottom right Santa has weird fuzzy strokes that would not be possible with a brush, and that digital art programs really try to prevent you from doing.

The teddy bear and the white puff of his jacket would be done with a randomized splatter brush, and that's clearly the look the AI was trying to copy but didn't get it quite right.

A lot of it is hiding in the fact that this is just bad artwork. The kind of thing a graphic design student might pump out in an afternoon for a quick paycheck. So instead of that kid being able to afford pizza this week, the dollar store saved 100 bucks on this crap.

Yep, makes me wonder if it's such a big deal in this case. Not like anyone really looked at such images.

That hand also only has 3 fingers while the other has 4.

The reindeer is on its hind legs so that detail is fine. The hands on Santa though do suggest this is all slop

That doesn’t explain why he’s so happy about his plate of shit donuts. He’s slop.