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Tristan Elwell
@tristanelwell.bsky.social
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Artist/Illustrator/Educator
Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize Winner, Hugo Loser
I make pictures of spooky girls and cute cats
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These are the raw images that have been shared online, the only thing I've done to them is split spreads into individual images. 2/
Hive is, of course, not foolproof, but it is the only online AI image detector that I have found to be at all reliable. All the others are highly prone to false positives. Hive, if anything, is more likely to return false negatives. Sometimes accuracy can be improved by cropping to the most suspicious areas of an image, but I think these results speak for themselves already. Out of 21 images: 14 scored above 74% 10 scored above 99% There is stylistic consistency among all the pictures, so even the ones that scored low are suspect. Additionally, all the images have much more in common stylistically with each other than they do with the artist’s previous work. In my opinion, these results, combined with all the the other evidence, allow us to conclude with a great deal of confidence that these pictures at the very least contain SOME AI content. Interestingly, some of the lowest scoring pieces are ones that people have raised the most concern about. This may be because they were some of the “worst” looking outputs, so they required more extensive overpainting, whereas the “better” images could be used raw or with slight modification.
November 11, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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I'm so angry about the statement from Raya Golden on GRRM's website denying (or at least disclaiming knowing) that the illustrations for the 20th anniversary edition of A Feast For Crows were made with AI that I ran all of the images available though Hive Moderation's online AI content detector. 1/
November 11, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Their own words turn to dust in their mouths.
A screenshot of the "About" page from LaborWise's website: https://thisislaborwise.com/about/
November 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Dropped them a kind word on their Insta 😝
Screenshot of an Instagram comment reading: How Dare you claim to speak for labor and then constantly use AI generated images for your "content?" Art is work, and every time you generate a picture you are supporting Altman, Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg and their ilk in their attempt to automate and commodify every aspect of daily life while simultaneously destroying the planet. Shame on anybody who does this, but shame on you especially!
November 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula
Digital painting: close up on a woman's face half submerged in red liquid (blood?) up to her mouth. Her eyes are closed, her mouth is open, her skin is pale, and her lips, hair, and the background are all the same red. She is beautiful, but her red reflection is skeletal.
November 1, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula
A pen and ink drawing of Carroll Borland as Luna in Mark of the Vampire
November 1, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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QRP with your horned art!😈
Colored drawing of Gramps (a horned, fanged, devil creature, literally Satan) and Cherry (his granddaughter, an innocent-looking young girl with blond hair and a skull T-shirt). Pin-up art for HELLICIOUS volume 1.
October 29, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Prophesy!
Screenshot of a twitter post from the Masters of Our Domain Podcast dated Jan 3, 2002 Text: INT. JERRY'S APARTMENT GEORGE: Somebody hacked my apes. They're all gone. JERRY: All gone? GEORGE: Every single one! Funged! JERRY: You can't just funge a man's ape! GEORGE: That's society for you - people are sick! [KRAMER enters smoking a cigar in an ape costume]
October 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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If you see this post a goth or punk girl
#artsky

YOU RANG?
Cartoon sketch of a girl with heavy eyeliner, dark lipstick and straight, black bangs that come down to her eyes. Captioned "Nobody sees my eyebrows... nobody." Headshot sketch of a trad goth girl with teased hair inside a light pink circle. The Aqua-Net logo is is superimposed on the circle in hot pink. Pen-and-ink sketch of the Anadin Brothers, the female backup dancers for Doctor and the Medics. The have white faces, black eye makeup, very long black hair, flower crowns, and white gowns. Their nails, lips, and some of the flowers are bright red. A pencil sketch of Tairrie B (My Ruin). She has a pale, oval face with heavy eye makeup and lipstick, and a tangled rat's nest of long, teased black hair.
October 8, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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QRP with something watery 🌊
Cover illustration for Mother Ocean, Daughter Sea by Diana Marcellas. An oil painting of a young woman in medieval peasant dress, holding a staff, standing on a rock in a storm-tossed ocean. Two suns glow through the thick clouds above.
September 13, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Everybody, drop whatever you’re doing and draw a mind sheep!
A ballpoint pen sketch of a sheep on lined notebook paper.
September 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Here you go
A ballpoint pen sketch of a sheep on lined notebook paper.
September 13, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Dropped everything to do this on the closest paper
A ballpoint sketch of a sheep on lined notebook paper.
September 13, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Screenshotted before block. I can’t believe it has a fucking Pepe profile pic on top of everything else.
A screenshot of the user profile for Explain Him Jim, an AI bot account that will summarize Bluesky posts when tagged.
September 9, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Look what you made me do
August 31, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Let's see you at 21
21 year old me gothin' it up.
August 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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The end of WWII, according to J.D. Vance.
Neville Chamberlain declares "peace in our time."
August 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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The end of WWII, according to J.D. Vance.
Neville Chamberlain declares "peace in our time."
August 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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The crew of the Nostromo
August 14, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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"I work for the company. But don't let that fool you. I'm really an OK guy."
The crew of the Nostromo
August 14, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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A new comrade joins the fight
A graphic showing a stylized raised fist with a photograph of a hero sandwich collaged into it
August 12, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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"God, what have you done?
You're a pink pony girl, and you dance at the club"
An early 20th century photograph of a chorus girl in a horse costume. She is wearing a horse head headpiece, her bustle has a horse tail attached to it, and her shoes have hooves at the toes.
August 4, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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🥕🥕🥕If you see this, share a redhead!🥕🥕🥕
A digital painting of a pale woman with auburn hair and red lips against a dark green background. We see her from the shoulders up, head back, eyes closed. She has a green ribbon, the same color as the background, tied around her neck, the trailing ends of the bow blowing out behind her. The front edge of the ribbon disappears against the green background, appearing to separate her head from her body.
August 2, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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That's great news, but why does the new cover look more dated than the original?
July 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Seven heads would actually be reasonable (average adult is ~7.5), with just head size she's more like 8.5. which is getting into superhero comics territory.
July 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM