The other day I posted a short showcasing some artwork I made for a TCG I'm in the process of creating.
Comments poured in saying it was "doomed to fail" because it was just "AI slop."
In the video itself I explained how I made them, in Adobe Illustrator (even showing some of the layers, elements, pieces etc).
Next I'm actually posting a recording of me making a character from start to finish, a timelapse.
Will be interesting if I get any more "AI slop" comments, but it's becoming increasingly difficult to share anything drawn now because people immediately assume it's generated.
Has anyone else ran into this with creative work/projects they've created?
I know it's easy enough to ignore comments like this. My concern is that they're common enough that for people genuinely interested in what I'm making, they'll be turned off by the people tossing the AI slop comments around. Sharing BTS of work seems to be a great way to get attention on something I'm hoping to launch, apart from this.
I've been illustrating characters/designing games for many years now (long before you could generate art) so it's a new experience having everything I make being immediately called into question.
PaulHoule•2mo ago
I see it the most with blogs, I'd say there is a "2025 voice" which you hear a lot on LinkedIn that will get people to accuse you of using an LLM -- when I made this accusation of one blogger he told me that he'd gotten a lot of pushback for writing a blog post with AI and he'd resolved never to do it again.
But yeah, you're doing the right thing to show your creation process, sooner or later the haters will look bad.