#i've nothing against ai art as a rule but don't fucking lie about it is my thing. call it what it is. not ''illustration''

[echthr0s]

was about to get annoyed at the bad AI art being passed off as non-AI art in the #randall flagg tag and then I realised Randall Flagg is better represented by bad AI art than literally any other kind of art

#i've nothing against ai art as a rule but don't fucking lie about it is my thing. call it what it is. not ''illustration'' #sure it's *teeeecchhhhnically* an illustration but ''illustration by [name]'' has a specific connotation and you damn well know it #anyway i think if we were still in the wonky surreal brainmelty image phase of ai art it'd be even better for r.f. #lovecraft: ''indescribable horrors!'' some artmaking algorithm in the 2020s: ''indescribable? lol watch this'' #unfortunately now we just have bad image generation which is when it doesn't even look cool and weird it just looks. well. Bad. #but. at the same time. i think he'd dig that #specifically because it's Bad