<a few weeks ago>
PR guy at wacom: Fuck. FUCK FUCK FUCK! This whole AI shit is worrying budding artists so much, they're giving up on their careers! Our tablet sales are tanking! This AI craze is doing nothing for us! What a lemon! Unless... hmm! What if if we used it to generate ad illustrations? We could cut costs and at least squeeze *some* lemonade from this...
<a little bit later>
PR guy: oh no
@lritter I had no idea about this drama. I made a bit of research; and only the 'apology' remains public, not the illustrations used: https://nitter.net/wacom/status/1744814055137919388#m . Interesting case, thanks for sharing.
1. I think yes. There is a lot of AI detectors out there https://duckduckgo.com/?q=AI+detector&t=ffab&ia=web , but I doubt about how well they work. A user on our Pepper&Carrot channel reported once one of my artwork was detected as AI, while I had full video timelapse proof it wasn't.
2. Yes! But that only shows probably how much the PR/Marketing team at Wacom works under a lot of pressure and short delays.When things are made so roughtly like that, it's often when no one care or had time to look at it.