Quickly about her latest post:
No, it wouldn't be helpful. Pixel art WIP shots are very easy to fake. You can do it--and I know you will.
Nevere, I want to address you personally. I know you won’t admit to using AI. But the bottom line is, you know perfectly well that you *are* using it.
I can’t claim that *all* your work looks like an AI product, but some of it was definitely created with AI assistance.
Your Halloween shrine was AI-generated with audacity so blatant it had me surprised.
You can lie to everyone around you. People will believe you rather than me. Your fans and friends will take your side.
But you can’t fool yourself. You know the true source of some of your work. You could just admit it and try to do better.
Just know that people see you. People notice that you use AI, even if they don't comment it. Don't think you can just fool everyone.
I'm being real. It is obvious. You, 99% of you all, are way too oblivious. You could spot an AI art, right?
What about pixel AI art, then? No? Let me show you.
Note before we start: I am myself a pixel artist. I usually recognize AI art by the first sight since I've got a lot of experience with AI because of my job.
I'll try to argument my words as much as I can. ALSO! Not all of her art is AI-generated, but some is for sure.
All images here I took from HER site unless stated otherwise. I did NOT edit her images. I only opened them in a pixel art program for a better look.
Look at this pixel art from Pinterest. It's Ai generated. How you recognize it:
Notice that most of outline issues can be fixes self-handedly (cropped/erased/edited). It's easy.
In fact, if you are familiar with AI "art," you will immediately recognize that this is the work of a AI.
Studying peachlantern's art:
This dribk is AI-generated. Ice cubes details are uneven, but that's not so significant since a pixel artist can actually draw like that.
The weirdest thing is top left ghost's bottom, near the berry. What's that random yellow thing? Then, other ghosts' faces are weird and blurry.
About her latest site updates. The hdiv.png image. The problems are: weird "stray" pixels at the edges of bat.
Those orange pixels don't match the bat's purple colors. The bat's shape is uneven and "chopped". The right bat's shape is even weirder. Look at its wing.
Then the pumpkin: flower shape is unstructured as well; the pumpkin's eyes do no
Here’s her new banner (or whatever it is). These are the very "extra"/"stray" pixels I was talking about. AI is always leaving random pixels like that all over the place.
Look: they’re completely out of place here and clash with the color scheme.
Some might argue it was done "for better coloring, shading, or contrast," or that "it’s an artistic choice," but no—in this case, those extra pixels actually make the image look worse.
Besides, I’m not talking to the entire banner. After all, it is clearly an image created by an AI and then refined by hand.
If you know how to spot AI-generated work, a single glance at the flowers is enough to realize it’s the product of a AI.
On her "About Me" image I'll highlight the overshading on hair and hoodie, stray pixels on the ear, and the fact that pixels between lashes are transparent.
This image is straight up AI turned into pixels blatantly. Do I even need to explain?
Stray pixels, broken star shape, broken cone pattern.
Stray pixels, weird shapes, broken flower shape.
Dithered or resized or pixelified AI-generated image.
As well as the other 2 and some more.
Resized + edited AI-artstyle art.
If you wonder why I am so sure, look at how similar these images are esp. when resized.
https://peachlantern.neocities.org/halloween/halloween
Btw I was the most shocked by her Halloween shrine page. That page is completely generated by AI.
A small tip on spotting AI-made pages: most generative AIs can't use graphics, which is why they use symbols and emojis and available CSS rules for decoration.
The most popular thing I've seen them to is add those mf "✦", ESPESSIALY at the corners. And the dashed borders. I feel like AIs like dashed borders more than dotted ones.
I'm not proving that this page is AI because you just need to KNOW it. You see it once, you see it always. So the source on this is "trust me bro"
So yeah. The point stays. Peachlantern uses AI for some of her art and pages.
The moment I'm writing this her guestbook is down, but I remember someone asking her there if she uses AI for her art. She said she...scans...her artwork? Something like that. I'm not quoting her words exactly, but it's enough to understand that her answer was weird if you keep in mind that she makes PIXEL art, not the realism oil-painting.
also I can't comment because of neocities' restrictions so yeah... don't mind if I don't answer to anyone.