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I commented on this in the announcement post, and got a lot of people disagreeing with me. It made me think twice, for sure, but I can't stop thinking about it. Am I going crazy? does it really look normal to everyone else?
Imo, this image looks a lot like AI art being used directly in official promotional material. Maybe it has been touched up a little, but... it can't be by that much. I know Paradox has been using AI tools to generate images to then build off of, but this seems like another step in the AI direction. Or an example of why having artists guided by AI isn't a very good idea.
I'll try to break down my observations into points to at least explain where my feelings are coming from in this case.
Point 1: This one is very simple; for some reason, AI art is obsessed with side and backlight on the faces and in the hair of their subjects, if you've seen semi-realistic AI art you've likely noticed this trend yourself. And this piece of art leans very heavily on the sidelight. This isn't a very strong point on its own, and although it's part of what made me wary I wouldn't have made this post if there wasn't something else.
Point 2: Hair and fur. AI art has a tendency to go a little overboard with the waviness of hair. It tends to spread out and curl outwards significantly.
Imo, this is also visible here in the curling of his hair and the fur floak. The cloak especially almost looks feathery. But once again, if these were the only two things, I wouldn't be making this post.
Point 3: And the thing that I kept going back to and the part that really makes me think this is AI. The patterns on the trim of their clothes. It simply makes no sense.
Look here at the patterns on our central figure. Real human clothing with trims like this usually have consistent, symmetrical, and coherent patterns. This one is... I have no idea what it is. Sometimes it's an 8-figure that badly lines up with the 8-figure below it and the unfinished 8-figure above it. Sometimes it's a swirly spiral pattern that smoothly transitions along until it hits another weird 8-figure.
Further down it turns into some other completely incoherent mess. Look at how part of it doesn't even keep a smooth shape. I simply do not understand how you could look at this and think a human being drew it. Or that it's meant to be a piece of clothing a real human would have sewn.
His circlet is much the same. Swirling incoherent nonsense patterns. Typical of AI.
And so it is with the patterns on the woman's cloak. It's a bit harder to tell, however, due to the added complexity of the pattern. But this also looks deeply incoherent to me.
So there you go. I'm curious to see what people think when they've had it pointed out to them. Maybe you will all disagree with me. But at least I've been able to have my say.
Imo, this image looks a lot like AI art being used directly in official promotional material. Maybe it has been touched up a little, but... it can't be by that much. I know Paradox has been using AI tools to generate images to then build off of, but this seems like another step in the AI direction. Or an example of why having artists guided by AI isn't a very good idea.
I'll try to break down my observations into points to at least explain where my feelings are coming from in this case.
Point 1: This one is very simple; for some reason, AI art is obsessed with side and backlight on the faces and in the hair of their subjects, if you've seen semi-realistic AI art you've likely noticed this trend yourself. And this piece of art leans very heavily on the sidelight. This isn't a very strong point on its own, and although it's part of what made me wary I wouldn't have made this post if there wasn't something else.
Point 2: Hair and fur. AI art has a tendency to go a little overboard with the waviness of hair. It tends to spread out and curl outwards significantly.
Imo, this is also visible here in the curling of his hair and the fur floak. The cloak especially almost looks feathery. But once again, if these were the only two things, I wouldn't be making this post.
Point 3: And the thing that I kept going back to and the part that really makes me think this is AI. The patterns on the trim of their clothes. It simply makes no sense.
Look here at the patterns on our central figure. Real human clothing with trims like this usually have consistent, symmetrical, and coherent patterns. This one is... I have no idea what it is. Sometimes it's an 8-figure that badly lines up with the 8-figure below it and the unfinished 8-figure above it. Sometimes it's a swirly spiral pattern that smoothly transitions along until it hits another weird 8-figure.
Further down it turns into some other completely incoherent mess. Look at how part of it doesn't even keep a smooth shape. I simply do not understand how you could look at this and think a human being drew it. Or that it's meant to be a piece of clothing a real human would have sewn.
His circlet is much the same. Swirling incoherent nonsense patterns. Typical of AI.
And so it is with the patterns on the woman's cloak. It's a bit harder to tell, however, due to the added complexity of the pattern. But this also looks deeply incoherent to me.
So there you go. I'm curious to see what people think when they've had it pointed out to them. Maybe you will all disagree with me. But at least I've been able to have my say.
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