So, in francophone social media, there's a controversy over a book that came out and suuuuure looks like AI. It's about the badness of capitalism, poverty, climate change: www.reddit.com/r/france/com... - ThreadSky

zachweinersmith.bsky.social • 17 days ago

So, in francophone social media, there's a controversy over a book that came out and suuuuure looks like AI. It's about the badness of capitalism, poverty, climate change: https://www.reddit.com/r/france/comments/1l33eba/guillaume_meurice_cie_sortent_leur_premier_livre/

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profshadoko.bsky.social•17 days ago

The artist confessed to using "some" AI, but to what extent remains unclear. Sure looks like all the way to me.

zachweinersmith.bsky.social•17 days ago

Yeah, I mean I dunno what he did, but speaking for myself, if I had generated an AI image and traced it, surely I wouldn't have had the duplicated arm. I can imagine still missing some of the shirt cuffs, by you'd have to be pretty distracted to not notice a whole extra arm while tracing.

vaskrag.bsky.social•17 days ago

Apparently he claims that he did the opposite: he drew rough sketches and asked the IA to finish the art.

zachweinersmith.bsky.social•17 days ago

That definitely makes sense. I wonder if we'll start seeing more illustrator contracts that explicitly forbid AI?

darthhellokitty.bsky.social•17 days ago

I hope so!

williambabey.bsky.social•17 days ago

Not helped by the fact that Guillaume Meurice is both pretty popular and generally despised by the intellectual elite.

zachweinersmith.bsky.social•17 days ago

Apparently the authors hired off of Fiver. What's interesting to me is that the art is, to my eye, borderline. The main reason it looks like AI is that it has what I think of as the OpenAI "house style" which is a kinda cutesy American style.

zachweinersmith.bsky.social•17 days ago

There are suggestive things, e.g. places where a line that indicates a shirt-cuff wasn't drawn. Also what you might call style mismatch, where (unusually for a human, but not impossible) the background has lots of details but the foreground is a simple style.

tobybartels.bsky.social•17 days ago

That just means they hired Gerhard to do the backgrounds. (Probably an obscure joke now.)

zachweinersmith.bsky.social•17 days ago

There are also places with the wrong finger count. It's a cartoon, so not so weird, but a little weird that sometimes it's 4 fingers and sometimes 3.

There's a discussion here on https://www.reddit.com/r/RealOrAI/comments/1l34s45/help_french_comics_published_a_coloring_book/

zachweinersmith.bsky.social•17 days ago

What's interesting to me is even the AI indicators are dicey. Like, most of these are things a real artist might do by accident, e.g. forgetting the line for a shirt cuff, occasional stray lines. There *is* a three-eyed rabbit but frankly it'd be weird for a modern AI to do that?

zachweinersmith.bsky.social•17 days ago

The one that seems pretty likely to be AI is there's a panel that appears to have a duplicated arm, which is duplicated in a very AI why. Hard to describe what that means, but basically it's done a way where you it'd be plausible if there weren't a first arm already.

zachweinersmith.bsky.social•17 days ago

I guess what interests me here is this appears to have gotten all the way through publishing, and the "AI errors" if that's what they are could've been fixed with about 5 minutes of effort. Which suggests it's possible other artists really have basically copied AI templates and got it through.

mpl.bsky.social•17 days ago

In case you didn't fully get the whole vibe, the authors are very popular humorists on the left side, and are supposed to be against this kind of thing of course.
Moreover, one of them (arguably the most popular), has several cartoonists/friends with whom he's already made collabs in the past.

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