Oh yeah and I should mention that this is painted in Photoshop. I also use 3d and photobashing on certain illustration/concept projects, but my preference is drawing/painting.

Yeah, I've heard of artists avoiding certain styles because of it.

Yeah but was it AI generated?? I discovered that at a nail salon recently, but it was country pop/slop.

Yup, and it's really hard to tell, at least for the average listener like me. This time I only suspected because it was an album with five versions of the same song. It's now been taken down, but it's still depressing that it's a new norm.

I'll look into it. A while back I switched to Youtube Music, since I heard it was SLIGHTLY better at paying artists and didn't have rogan, but I think neither of those things are true anymore so I've been giving Spotify another try. YT music was just terrible for keeping track of artists.

Also, I'm sorry if this makes you depressed too. I've been avoiding social media BOTH because of all the AI slop AND because of everyone posting about how sad they are about the AI slop. So I'm sorry to add to that part of it!

Late here because I'm on vacation! But thanks so much for the tag. I'm Ven, illustrator and concept artist, and here are couple of my Excision album arts:

Oooohh

Take good care of her for me 🥹 I moved away last year.

Yeah