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Ruru ❄️🤍 Comms open@merururuu · Jun 24, 2024

‼️ HOW TO SPOT AI TRACED IMAGES ‼️ A very necessary thread 🧵;

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Summary

A guide to identifying AI-traced artwork by looking for quality inconsistencies (uneven lineart and anatomy), muddy colors from color-picking without understanding, suspicious account behavior (new accounts claiming victimhood while profiting), and fake progress posts that lack proper sketching phases. The thread emphasizes supporting real artists and avoiding harassment while spreading awareness.

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    ‼️ HOW TO SPOT AI TRACED IMAGES ‼️ A very necessary thread 🧵;

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    1. Quality Inconsistencies Since its traced, there is a skill gap between line, shape language and color. Often very thin, unstable lineart with questionable parts (like the foot and hair here, or good body anatomy and vastly different hands.) Background on the art is muddy.

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    2. Muddy Colors This happens because they color-pick from the AI image, and don't know why that color is there. Artists use different layer modes/brushes to achieve light, shadow and effects, while tracers usually use a round default brush due to lack of artistic experience.

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    3. Manipulation/Profit It's usually a brand new account with few images. They often post about being the victim, like how people don't believe them. They tend to draw for "free" for followers and open commissions/have a blue checkmark/ko-fi etc. for profiting.

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    4. They post WIP pictures that are different than what real artists post. Like on a dim-lit art, rendering the skin only with the correct shade while rest remains untouched. Also you won't see sketches, or any progress video from scratch, showing the composition/sketch phase.

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    ‼️ DISCLAIMER ‼️ Some of these things might apply to real artists too, but mostly you wont see a real artist having them all. Please support real artists, and don't support AI people. You can support real artists by RT/comments/likes and purchases! ♥ Thank you!

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    Last but not least, don't send hate to anyone. This is an informative thread.