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On the other hand though, it looks strange. That sharp sleeve angle, Two (not one) eyes of sauron randomly in the sky? Can we at least agree that it looks very unconventional?
It's a book cover for a novel series called 'beneath the dragoneye moons'. Said moons feature prominently in the story and several of the previous covers in the series.
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/36299/beneath-the-dragoney...
The biggest story here isn't about art or AI. The most interesting part of this story is that moderation on Reddit is so horrifyingly and provably awful. If an art sub-reddit, with limited commercial or political manipulation value is moderated so badly, you have to wonder what happens on subreddits that might actually be able to influence politics or commerce and that smart people with resources are trying to wield…
The bigger story is that we're entering a world it is becomeing harder to know the difference between what is real and what isn't, and that foments distrust.
Using DALL-E 2[1] as the turning point, we've gone from AI art isn't a thing to "it's the way of the world" in 278 days. I'm left stunned by how quickly the artistic community has been transformed. As an active participant, I've found myself taking on projects that a year ago, I wouldn't have started, and pushing my creative limits.
But let's draw a line in the sand - willingly participating in a new artistic ecosystem is qualitatively different than being told[forced] by others to participate in a craft until this time had no concern over whether or not computers could produce art.
1. April 6, 2022: OpenAI presents DALL-E 2 - https://tokenizedhq.com/dall-e-2-release-date/
I recall in the very beginning of Stable Diffusion being released, the first few models used to have an odd behaviour where mentioning the artist "Greg Rutkoswski" in the prompt would ameliorate the quality of painterly or sketched styles.
So much that it kinda became a meme, and the artist himself became quite vocative about his issues with AI generated artwork - but not because he inherently opposed it, his issue was that pictures associated with prompts mentioning him started to displace his actual artworks in search engines and public perception.
I find this case here to be a great example of the issues arising from the "AI art debate".
Models will soon become good enough to emulate recognisable styles in such quality and higher resolutions that the giveaway errors and artifacts created by the diffusion process will start to fade, which might very well and ironically impact better known digital artists and subject them to the general rejection of purists and legally cautious companies, when the lines start to blur.
It seems other redditors are presenting some evidence for it potentially being AI-generated: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/107eent/the... Reading further, it's probably not AI art, but the sketches at least did lift some artwork from somewhere else: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/107eent/the...
Unless I am mistaken, that reddit poster is accusing the artist of plagiarizing, but the evidence is only from some preproduction reference images and spotlighting elements that are not in the actual final work. This piece is a commissioned book cover so it would be expected that he slapped together a 'demo' for the author to approve before making the final work.