Plus I can't really put my finger on it but ai art, whether realistic or stylized, just looks off to me. Soulless and generic almost, even when cleaned up to get rid of the usual garbage like extra fingers.
In my experience, the vast majority of people are completely incapable of telling the difference. There are several games updated in just the last couple of days where people are crying about AI models when the dev tagged the game w/ AI bc they used AI to generate the backgrounds. And to be really blunt, we'd all be better off if a lot of VA's and artists were replaced by AI.
I scanned in some paintings my ex did so she can sale them and most of the first comments were quite literally trying to claim physical paintings were AI art. I'm more than tired of listening to her break down about how she's going to be replaced by AI.
Make something that looks remotely professional and here come the accusations. Make something where you state you're using it as a tool for s specific reason, here come the accusations that you're using it for everything. Unless it looks like it's hand drawn by a preschooler, everything today is being accused of being AI by someone. Hell, AI art is quite literally based off of other peoples creations, which was based off of other peoples creations, which in turn were based off of other peoples creations. Neither the AI nor the artists would have been capable of creating the art we consume today if the artists before them hadn't created what they did.
For example, every alien depiction in scifi has characteristics of animals or humans when science dictates that it's incredibly unlikely that lifeforms from another planet would share any characteristics with how life on this planet evolved. Hell, we have a lot of animals that evolved from the sea to live on land, just to return to the see due to natural disasters taht would have only occurred on this planet. So we know alien life isn't likely to look remotely like anything we've seen before, and yet we're still incapable of conceiving anything that isn't derived from what we've already seen. We are literally no better than the AI we've created, and that's the sad truth.