Did she say she didn’t use AI to draw this specific picture of Bubble? Because from the admittedly little I saw of her Twitter feed (which is hard for me to see because I neither have nor want a Twitter account), I heard her say, “People have routinely accused me of using AI,” and, “Look at these previous works of mine which get falsely flagged as AI,” but nowhere did I see, “No, I didn’t use AI this time around either,” or the like; it was just left implied.
I’m not going to draw hasty conclusions from this—clear communication isn’t everyone’s forte—but if she were using AI, that would be a sneaky little diversion LOL.