When it comes to the artwork in this genre, I’m easily deceived. The artists already tend to be so very detailed and exacting within their particular type of stylized imagery, so they already look “high-gloss”. They also tend to work in teams or, at least, by drawing upon stock images for scenes like castles, towns, squares, markets, gardens and greenhouses, so there is a way in which individual flourishes tend to be washed away with a slick collective input. It’s a sincere question: what signs and indications do you look for that tell you it’s AI? Because the usual things I look for aren’t there in the original work. I don’t want to be fooled.

AI slop!