AI detected on page 2. Very strange. Likely created by Gemini.
I'm just kind of very surprised to see this on the color page of a major Japanese manga publication, it honestly doesn't look that bad.
what about that page looks like AI to you?
General vibe, overall image has the "nano banana look" - weak evidence but it adds up together in the vibe.
- Background painting of trees and sky consistent with nano banana gens
- Bench design, textures, lines, are like nano banana
- Character shading near the skirt has nano-banana "semi-transparent" look
- linework on characters has nano-banana look
- blonde hair girl's right hand is odd (weak evidence, could be human bad hands)
AI artifacts, strong evidence and hard to explain in human work
- AI artifacts on the ground in the bottom right corner
- AI artifacts where the hair goes over the dark hair girl's right shoulder
- Hair melts together with the uniform for the dark hair girl behind her back
- Linework on the top board of the bench, the black line outline on top disappears halfway
- Artifacts where eyebrows meet the hair on both characters
- Hallucinated line behind the knee floating
To be fair, a lot of these artifacts come from my half-assed removal of the text and boxes with Firefly.
Not to say the orginal has not been AI generated anyway by the magazine.
Most "AI checker" out there say the original is AI.
Here's the original.
https://files.catbox.moe/dievnw.png
I'm afraid we'll see a lot more of this kind of time/cost saving in the future.
After seeing the original image, turns out that a lot of the stuff that bothered me about the image isn't in the original. So I'm going with "probably not AI" for this.
Or maybe it was outlined by the artist and coloured with AI? The thing about the semi transparent skirt does seem suspicious.
I still think that the position of black haired girl's arm around the blonde's body is weird and unnatural. It almost looks like the arm is going through her body. But this could simply be the artist's fault.
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