Does this new genre have a name yet? Handmade slop? In other words - AI slop-like stuff created by a human being. The artist’s Bluesky post:
So excited to share this illustration I had the pleasure of creating for Bloomberg Businessweek for the article “The Steamy, Magical and Now Very Lucrative Romantasy Business” by Hannah Miller and Madison Muller.
Such a fun one to work on!
Art direction by Chandra Illick.
https://bsky.app/profile/akreon.bsky.social/post/3msy5b3vkl22e


This is the same exact process that led to R*ddit having bots that sound like humans and humans that sound like bots. AI art will converge towards the real thing while real artists will have art styles that converge towards AI art until they meet in the middle just like with humanlike bots and botlike humans.