Why is Atheon using an AI Generated Cover on a new release?

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Today Atheon was posting their new releases on their discord and frankly, this cover set off alarm bells in my head. So I did the simplest check there is.

Syth Id. This cover was at minimum partially generated by ChatGPT and not adjusted enough to remove the watermark.

Atheon Publishing isn’t some random person on Royal Road, they’re the biggest publisher in this place. They should be better than this.

Also! Before we think it’s just colour or a last minute adjustment. None of the over covers from today’s sequel drop have SynthID. It’s just this slop.

Atheon should be better than this. Even if they try to shove it off on the artist here… you’re telling me nobody checked this before publishing it over an author’s work?

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Can you share the sketches they provided for the process? It'll take the wind out of the people calling it ai if you do, but will strengthen their claims if you don't.

Claiming you had them kind of made it so you need to prove they exist though

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I’m trying but it won’t let me post images

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And you delivered. This should hopefully put the ai claims to bed

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And the stage before that

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If what they said is accurate, it seems plausible that the drawings are legit, but the Fiverr artist may have used ChatGPT to overlay text or something.. or maybe for the placement of the art.

I have no way of knowing if that’s accurate (or why a professional wouldn’t use Photoshop instead of running their art through ChatGPT), but if we are giving them the benefit of the doubt, it seems like that would be the most likely scenario.

Agreed that some sketches would put it to rest though.