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Just wanted to say that's a great little pixel art graphic for the story. I'm confident it's not ai, because i like it.
This should not even be in a pixel art
Uhh.. Its the icon for a browser plugin.. To illustrate that it was a Twitch browser plugin.
Yeah but you see, it's a pixel art, it should not be there and should be bigger, to match the pixel grid, this image has a ton of pixel not matching a grid and mixel (mixel can be an artistic choice but here they were clearly abused, i can give it the benefit of the doubt but that icon is too sus...)
You sound like you know your pixel art so I'm gonna take your word for it that this is sus. Appreciate the explanation.
Sorry but I really think it's AI. The only time I played around with AI of any kind was to see how it'd handle pixelart and it looked very similar to this. It's good at a very quick glance but quickly falls apart (like a lot of AI things) as soon as you actually look at it.
I don't see how a human could mess it up that oddly and badly. It would take more effort to make it this bad than just make actual pixel art, there are so many small things that make no sense as errors or sloppy/lazy human art.
What's wrong and bad about it, in your opinion? I'm no pixel art expert, but it sounds like you may be?
I can’t speak to the pixel are but the website itself also looks ai generated (as in the design not necessarily the writing). Also its homepage advertises its services as ai powered.
Yeah, I had a peek too. It might be ai, but I haven't seen any actual evidence of it - they use this pixel art style on a lot of their posts and it seems consistently decent.
Looking at their company photo they're very well funded and also have a team of like 60 people, so there's no reason they couldn't have an in-house graphics artist or a freelancer they contract. Or it could be ai.
But in times where every modern graphics artists is being accused of being AI, I'm inclined to assume not rather than assume it is, without evidence to the contrary.
it doesnt really adhere to any pixel grid. many pixel artists also dont adhere to a grid, but ai REALLY doesnt.