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At first glance I thought this **** was just posting my work and claiming it as their own… and I was a bit angry. On closer examination, this is AI generated, and “angry” doesn’t come close to describing how I feel.
The second image is the original, just for reference.
Followup tweet:
Seems more like the original picture has been used as an image prompt for an AI image generator, to just make it look a bit different.
Though I may be misunderstanding and stating the obvious.
That was my guess. It looks like they used an image-to-image operation within AI to produce a "new" image.