[00:01] because this will be a lesson on how to spot AI art scammers. And this is a document that was put out alongside the document that called out a really, really notorious Russian artist named ChocoPie, who was scamming in the
[00:16] skedaddled their way over to English Twitter and continued their scamming over there. There is a 100-page document exposing them, and I've already made a video talking about their whole art scam
[00:28] multiple different fake accounts pretending to be different people. One sister, made all these posts, was doxxing and harassing other people, and then every time they were called out for using AI, they lied about it and played
[00:41] alongside that document came out a second document with more in-depth details on how to spot AI tracers and red flags. So, I thought we should go in, and before we get started, please don't send hate to any parties involved.
[00:55] So, this is the part two, and it starts with AI tracer and red flags. And that this is a summary of details that are presented in document one. The doc adds this is covering a lot of things. They're not covering everything due to
[01:07] things that they want to discuss privately with artists, but that it could be misinterpreted by non-artists. The doc also adds, "In order to avoid itself, you should always consult with multiple artists to gather different
[01:20] opinions and standpoints. And that this is not meant to attack or call out other to look for before commissioning accounts that might be tracing AI." And it adds, "Please do not directly quote the information below or link this part
[01:35] of the document as your source due to arguments online." The doc adds, "One, account age. These accounts usually join Twitter during or after 2022. However, could have made an account because their previous one was hacked. They could have
[01:49] only joined Twitter recently. Sometimes scammers will buy old hacked accounts and rebrand them, so the account age can be irrelevant. However, in both of these cases, the artist typically should have records of their accounts in previous
[02:01] platforms. It's very rare for somebody to have a high skill set to have never these accounts typically have a blue checkmark. So, the second point, no old art or former socials. The account will post artworks that look skilled
[02:14] anatomy-wise, but will have no other social presence besides Twitter. And usually, it's a Patreon or basic card site. It's not necessarily strange, but account age and lack of digital footprint. These kinds of tracer
[02:27] their past username or share former artworks. Here are some examples of around giving, you know, past information. This one is account called previous document, basically essentially exposed to also be a scammer. Somebody
[02:41] unfortunately, I can't show them." And other usernames before? Sorry, I'm being nosy." And they're like, "Oh, haha, like permabanned, and it was like a ghost account, basically. I post my art, and
[02:55] hole." And then the commentator is like, "Okay, well, what about previous art they're like, "Mhm, no, I only share things I'm really happy about." Example remember what it was like anymore. It's been a really long time since I last had
[03:10] controversies. I deleted all my posts, and the old account is gone." Another username for a long time, but I used to go by this username." And then when They're like, "Mhm, I'm not comfortable sharing my old art." Example D, "Can I
[03:26] And the artist is like, "At the moment, I'm only ready to share these art pieces. The rest of my training sketches." Here are some more examples. previous artist usernames?" And they're like, "Oh, this name or this name. I
[03:40] been on Russian platforms and Telegram if that's what you want." And then Telegram. Can I get some links?" And they're like, "Ooh, I had problems in life. I couldn't really give you info." They sent a couple links to group pages,
[03:52] then they were asked for a direct profile link and they were like, oh the commenter is like, well, sorry for being persistent, but you mentioned going by this username and I can't find anything online about it. Can I have a
[04:05] username? And the artist is like, oh, I don't have any accounts or groups that channels. So again, I just want to add another disclaimer that artists are completely entitled to show as much as they want. So like some artists choose
[04:18] don't want to and they're completely fine for that. But I will add, right, generative AI and the rise of scammers coming around, a lot of clients would
[04:30] hope that you're legitimate. Again, you are entitled to not show it, but just these scammers that all have excuses of, you know, no past work, whatever, it might just make people a little bit more suspicious about your accounts. You
[04:44] joined in 2022 or after, no previous aliases whatsoever, your art automatically looks like an advanced artist, you have no examples of previous work, no previous usernames, no previous social media, no speed paints, no work
[04:58] little bit suspicious. Just just being honest. Unfortunately, that's just how it is nowadays with generative AI becoming so popular. The doc also adds about Danbooru as a site for previous art. And it adds that Danbooru relies on
[05:11] manual uploads by contributors, meaning it's not always reliable as a lot of art is never uploaded. This is especially true for artists on foreign sites like their work from being uploaded to Danbooru as well. If a new account
[05:24] doesn't immediately mean they're tracing. And I also want to add another like generative AI, is this artist one of these elements and then just start slinging accusations like no
[05:36] reasons why an artist didn't have a Twitter prior to 2022. Maybe they wanted to use Twitter. Maybe they were really popular on Weibo cuz they're a to Twitter because their friends were telling them to do it, but you, because
[05:51] them on Weibo because you don't know how to type the characters, you know? Many reasons why. And not every artist is going to behave the same, right? So, just because one artist does this, one artist sketches like that, and you think
[06:03] thing. We really need to look at everything as a whole, whole entire package, to finally conclude, okay, is this like generative AI? So, just saying that, okay. The second point, a sudden art skill improvement. The doc adds that
[06:17] this one of the biggest red flags for tracers, and that they emphasize once again, and I find this document to be very like reasonable. The doc adds multiple times, artists improve at different rates. There's no standardized
[06:29] something personal and different for every artist. Some artists can improve year. I mean, you guys saw like, what was it, PewDiePie who did like the the to draw to being good at art? Like, people can improve really fast if they
[06:44] just put their mind to it. The doc adds though, some more context. One, this year. Conveniently almost always after 2023 when gen AI progressed. Two, the improvement observed before the leap is consistent. As in, they improved at a
[06:58] consistent rate prior, and then they had some ginormous jump in skill. And then it continues, after they begin tracing, improvement completely stops. They don't so their traces will look similar to other AI tracers. A lot of times they
[07:11] use the exact same poses and compositions without realizing it. There are few artworks in between their newer skill that show improvement progresses. So, often times you can pinpoint when they exactly started tracing. Here we
[07:23] art pieces, December 2024, February 2025, March 2025, poof, May 2025, June 2025, March 2025, poof, May 2025, June 2025. Massive jump in skill. I will also add, when you see this massive jump, you don't see essences of the artist's
[07:37] don't see essences of the artist's previous art style or work or choices in their future works. Just looking at these five images as examples, right? We have the right to images as their jump and then the left three as their
[07:50] previous. This artist clearly can draw and is good at art. And when we look at their other three pieces, you can see they have stylistic choices they like three pieces we see they draw anime-esque characters very head-on.
[08:04] backgrounds. They add dark colors for the backgrounds and texture it in. Three, they have a unique way of drawing eyes where they draw like four lines for spikes for the upper lashes. You see that in this piece, you see that in this
[08:17] in this piece as well. They also have a pretty unique way of hair shading. Mainly notable in these two pieces, they draw that like big stripe for the shade, like for the shine of the hair. You see that element. You also see the skin
[08:29] color choices, right? For the color choice for the skin and the color choice blend together pretty well. Their shading is a little bit like ashier than you would see for the skin color choice that they chose for the character. And
[08:42] kind of like painterly brush. They do blend a fair amount throughout their art have a mix of like hard and light shadows, and they use a fair amount of see and hear blue for the highlights, right? These are all stylistic elements
[08:57] And typically when an artist, not always, right? Sometimes artists are like, "I want to draw in a different style." But typically when an artist improves their artwork, you still see essences of their old art and the
[09:09] choices they make in their old art and their new art pieces. But here, between March 2025 and May 2025, the jump is absolutely massive and in the style of rendered completely different. They no longer draw eyelashes. The way they
[09:24] do these like really white circular highlights on the skin that you will often find in like very anime-esque drawings. They don't do that prior to May 2025. Also, the posing is now completely different, really high up
[09:37] angles, very dynamic angles. It's no longer the very like front-on angles that they've drawn prior to that. And then for the hair highlights, they no highlight in the hair. It's now the much more anime style blended-out highlight
[09:50] for the hair. The skin tone color is also very different. Suddenly, the skin characters. And then for the shading color, it goes from the ashier version, the darker ashier colors of the skin tone, to this very like pinkish reddish
[10:05] color, like a very, very warm color for the shading. So, the color choice is very, very different from the brush used prior. They no longer do backgrounds as backgrounds. All of that combined, it does not look like it's drawn by the
[10:18] same person. Like typically, an artist, even with a massive skill jump, you work in their newer stuff, and you don't see that here. The doc continues, "This improvement, in quotes, only appears as advanced anatomy or dynamic poses. Yet,
[10:31] they will struggle with basic shapes and more complex areas of drawing, like accessories, and long hair. In most instances I've seen, they cannot draw frills or ruffles at all. This is why these accounts stick to drawing girls
[10:43] wearing things like bikinis, bunny suits, gym clothes, etc." And here, we have another account. We have some artwork here, 2022, 2023. These all look You can see a lot of similarities in the eye and the face shape. And then boom,
[10:56] 2024, suddenly it's completely different. Same with 2025. Here, we have more examples. Example one, 2023 to 2025, 2024 to 2025, 2024 to 2025, 2025
[11:08] can just see, as you keep looking, right? These two even look like the same piece, but like vastly different. The improving at a fast pace or only drawing bikini girls doesn't mean somebody is
[11:20] tracing. In all the above examples, there are multiple other circumstances that have been taken into account besides sudden skill improvement." The doc adds, "In a lot of these cases, it's new artists doing this. I can't force
[11:32] tracing is a way for them to further their interest in art and eventually AI, then so be it. I want to encourage people to follow their art aspirations efforts. Art is not a competition after all, and some artists begin their
[11:47] they were younger and eventually went on to learn to draw properly and develop their styles. My request is to please disclose if you are using AI so as not you. My other thing to add and again, I don't like generative AI. I don't
[12:01] support generative AI, but if you are tracing images to learn, that's fine. like that, did art studies, art tracing to learn. Don't post it and claim it as if it was your original work because it's not, it's traced work. Like when I
[12:16] learn how to draw a tentacle, okay? I don't know why I drew so much tentacle, but I did. I'm not posting these tentacle drawings being like, "Yeah, wasn't. I was freaking 13 tracing tentacle. The doc adds, "Advanced
[12:29] anatomy rendering but with illogical perspective." When people who trace over AI with dynamic poses try to add extra details without understanding shape accounting for the perspective of the pose. Here we have this one, the
[12:42] this angle we're looking top down, it should be curved downwards. And this is the fixed version. Here we have these two side by sides with kind of like a panty line should follow this way because this is the angle of the hips.
[12:56] In this direction, it's it's riding up really high on the left hip. The doc construction are not on par with the final image. Beginner artists often struggle with longer strokes, line stability, and line weight. They do a
[13:09] drawing kind of like with a lack of confidence, which is fine. You know, it's part of their art style. Some people they start, you know, a lot of they'll go for the longer, more refined brush strokes as they get more confident
[13:23] doc adds, "When somebody is drawing anatomy and perspective at a certain their sketches should not look amateur in construction and line quality, as alongside each other. There is a discrepancy between the anatomy
[13:37] amateur, and the final image. And here we can see that, right? These two sketchier. These could be a like a lot more intermediate, and the finished image is like fully rendered pro style anime artwork. These don't match in
[13:52] quality, right? Because like, again, if you were able to draw at this level, to draw at, you would also be able to sketch at such a level. And these sketches are not it. And also, I want to add another one of a lot of times the
[14:06] sketches also don't match the final product. Like, here this character is quite thin, and then they have a wider set hips. Here, the body proportion is final character looks like. Like, the anatomy is off, the shoulder doesn't
[14:21] line up properly with like the the back, but then it looks fine in the final product. So, having glaring anatomy issues in the sketch that look more of like a beginner intermediate artist, and then having a fully professional-looking
[14:33] final sketches also odd. Here we have this, you know. The doc continues, resembles amateur construction guidelines during the sketching phase. appear to have dynamic poses and colors you often associate with professional
[14:46] methodologies, the sketch construction lines don't show the same level of sketch quality, roughness, or anatomy draft their art shows their underlying skill." So, here we have some more
[14:59] adds, "Some skilled artists may use loose guidelines that resemble joints, but it looks very different from the anatomy guidelines shown here. What beginner anatomy fundamentals for the sketch construction and the final
[15:12] anatomy on the finished page." So, here we have some more examples, right? These sketches, final product, some more side by side. Like, a A one is just, you Like, would a human draw this and does this kind of make sense? Like, the
[15:25] little banana in the stomach, it's just interesting because what is that you gave somebody the end product who doesn't know art and you're like, "Fake drawing this. Like, "Oh, maybe I'll draw like a banana in the stomach to show the
[15:38] waist." So, next one. Latex or skin rendering compared to other material rendering. Latex can be a very complex material to render. When it comes to people tracing AI, they often post images with latex rendering that
[15:50] it appears they've mastered coloring this material, in other artworks the clothing materials don't have the same degree of complexity. There is always a render latex and drawing frills and clothing folds if the AI didn't render
[16:03] it properly. This one, by the way, I want to like be on this point. This one is a huge one because all of these AI tracers, they render latex and like shiny black clothing super well. Latex is hard to render. And typically, like
[16:18] if an artist is good at drawing materials, clothing materials, fabrics, they're good at drawing different types of fabrics. But, this latex bodysuit thing is not rendered anywhere near to the same skill level as the dress. Like,
[16:30] the dress looks more intermediate, right? Maybe somebody who is learning to comfortable with drawing clothing just yet, but they're getting there. And the latex is like somebody who all they do is draw [ __ ] fabric and clothing.
[16:42] notice all the AI tracers, they've always got the latex down on pat. Here right? For your character here. The skin rendering looks like it's colored by a professional, the clothing looks like it's done by a professional. Where's the
[16:55] the hair accessories are added on top and colored, they're not on par with the rest of the image quality or rendering. The shading method used for the OC hair here base is visually distinct to the rest of the original image and doesn't
[17:09] big one because the hair was probably drawn by the artist and the rest of it was might have been a a generated image that was doctored a little bit. Next up, tracing from an AI image that was generated with a generic AI model like
[17:23] Haruka or Tsubaki, the traced image will strongly resemble previous generations posted online as some characters tend to have a very specific look with said AI work in an AI image online and they'll be extremely close to match. Having a
[17:37] real artwork drawn from scratch match an AI image almost perfectly is extremely unlikely. The colors are always a very close match. But here we have, you know, the generic model, the traced version, and then the overlay. Here we have a
[17:49] traced version, generic AI outputs. Again, just to add another disclaimer, AI steals from real artists. So, there are obviously real artists who will draw faces that look like this, but because their art was fed into AI, the chicken
[18:01] that came first. But again, when it comes to those artists, they don't meet look high quality because they're able to draw at this level. This is their works, work in progress, has a past history of doing artwork. All their
[18:15] not drawing latex super well, and then when they have to draw different colored hair, all of a sudden it looks like somebody else drew it. They typically will also have previous other social media handles, different channels, etc.
[18:28] different people start tracing from the same AI outputs, and you'll end up with different art accounts essentially tracing the same face." Tracer B and Tracer C and here are the same generic AI outputs. The doc adds, "Regularly you
[18:41] these artists art style-wise as they're have a personal style of their own. All the characters they draw have the same Laura face. And the fact they overlap exactly means it's not simply just a
[18:54] reference." Next up, multiple face and style changes within a small time frame. different eye styles depending on the character. However, in these cases, it becomes a bit odd depending on the
[19:07] context and after the combination of multiple accounts. Like a new account, style, various images having errors like missing fingers, poor alignment when comparing to the anatomy, etc. So, example A, these are apparently all
[19:20] look like it. I want to emphasize over and over again, as an artist, you are completely allowed to experiment with art styles, change your art style. But, like most of the time you can tell. You can tell over the progression of years
[19:32] lower lashes. When an artist decided they want to draw four spikes for the they big blocky hair highlight is their favorite, you know? They slowly start piece, you know, you might change your style a little bit. Maybe an artist
[19:47] sketchier, looser piece one day. Typically, you can still tell it's made by the same person. It won't often look like this where it literally looks like row by row, all every single piece looks like it's drawn by somebody else. That's
[20:00] That's wild. And then here we have Misoe and Asami. These guys are all proved to keep in mind artists develop their styles through years, incorporating When you first start learning fundamentals, you won't immediately have
[20:14] a design style, but there'll be visible quirks that make the art recognizable as your own. Tracers usually lack that. Some real artists do work with what appears to be different styles, but they tend to have more experience in general.
[20:26] Natural changes occur over time and not drastically overnight. Next up, the huge one, missing limbs. And the doc adds, human error happens. A drawing with a small issue shouldn't set alarms right away. But this is again something added
[20:39] on top of red flags. Pieces by these accounts often exhibit errors beyond wonky or missing fingers. I really want to harp on this one as well, okay? Human legit artists accidentally forget an arm, accidentally forget a finger,
[20:53] whatever, right? That on its own, it's just one thing that's human error. It happens once in a blue moon, right? These accounts will have it happen like missing, one foot is missing, one hand is missing. Like, dude, how are you
[21:06] literally every other piece you're missing a finger, I missing an arm, alongside all of the other things and account made after 2022, and accounts sketching looks really odd compared to the actual final output." See here, we
[21:20] missing, missing leg and feet. Yo, where did the other leg go? Missing hands, right? Missing arm, the forearm is missing. And the doc adds, "Tracing above, these are not one-time occurrences that can be attributed to
[21:34] human error, but multiple instances of odd mistakes." Here we have, you know, one six-finger hand, another six-finger hand, like or seven-finger hand, actually. This one, dude, the gun is facing the wrong way. Like the gun is
[21:46] pointing at her, and the muzzle, the where the bullet is exiting, is facing even happen? These ones, oh my god, the skin filling going up to the ears. errors. The ribbon here, ribbon erroring. The crazy part is I'm looking
[22:01] this was, which is crazy. Another one, characters not matching official there is no Laura for the character, especially if it's an OC. To the right are examples from original commissions
[22:14] established Misowi is tracing AI. Hair shapes are different, key elements are different. Here is the reference, Misowi's work. The reference, Misowi's hair, the bangs, etc., it's all completely off. Again, when it happens
[22:28] character for the first time, you look this is your first time seeing the design, sometimes you might miss a piece here or there. You will find with these types of tracers, they will draw the same character over and over again and
[22:40] [ __ ] it up differently every single time, right? It's one thing if you draw they have long pigtails, but it's really short. You typically would carry that cuz that's that's just how you think it looks like. What a lot of these AI
[22:52] tracers will have, they'll have one piece with long pigtails, one piece with short pigtails. You know, they'll muck it up differently piece by piece. Here a character has been released and there's no LoRAs, the generation will
[23:06] example, Helen from the mobile game Girls' Frontline 2, released in China September 2025 and English servers April 2026. ChocoPie's AI overpaint was posted missing critical features of the design." This is ChocoPie's work. This
[23:21] completely off. The chest plate is completely off. The logo is not there. The line going across the chest also missing. It looks like there's like a visible in this piece as well. ChocoPie added buttons to the collar. That's not
[23:35] present in the original design. Like, it's all off. Even if the character is older, popular, and has tons of LoRAs, AI will struggle to replicate complex accessories, like these Miko earrings. The AI-generated ones are close, but not
[23:48] ask the question, "Would a human draw this?" If a human looked at a reference image for Yae Miko, you would see there's, you know, three circles for the ear piece, like the top of the earring, and that's just not there. Next up, lack
[24:00] of hair structure knowledge. Tracers will often appear to be skilled at anatomy, but struggle with long hair. AI-generated hair is often chaotic. They'll have no proper structure and it will create a drastic contrast with the
[24:12] looks like grated cheese. It looks like melted Parmesan cheese or it loops from one thing back into another again. Note that some artists willingly draw hair in a chaotic way that might resemble AI hair, especially if it's rough or messy
[24:25] to begin with or doodle. But, in the case of tracers, it's always the drastic the image composition, line weight, and rendering. But, here we have hair drawn by a real artist. But, if you see the hair done by the real artist, it's not
[24:38] doing the looping, you know, melted Parmesan cheese thing. You can still understand like what the artist was trying to draw here. Here we have more examples of traced hair versus AI-generated hair. But again, here are
[24:50] part of the character design. It loops back in, right? Next up, oh, my favorite, the lying and convenient excuses. They coincidentally have old iPads, low-end PCs, they can't record time lapses, maybe their iPad storage is
[25:05] full. And again, there are genuine circumstances that some artists will have that causes these issues. But conveniently, these people also can't show old art. This was Asami, you know, again, proven tracer that fake the speed
[25:18] old Photoshop drawings. They lost all their drawings after 2017. Another one, their phone doesn't have enough storage. Another one, the laptop keeps crashing. Another one, their device is pretty dated. They don't want to give time
[25:32] lapses, but they can give a Photoshop file for only the flat rendering, conveniently. Next up, Ibis Paint lost their drawing. Like, it's always conveniently the art pieces that are the
[25:44] have speed paints for, that the speed paint broke, that this that and the third doesn't work, that the device is crashing. Next up, they won't draw real time. They'll blame like lag, not being used to Magma, the drawing program that
[25:57] people. So, this person was not asked to draw anything that was particularly they exhibit on Twitter. Yet, they weren't able to replicate said skill. new drawing was started or lying about how the layers were messed up or how
[26:11] they can't see the canvas. Next up, my my other favorite, the time lapses this, there is no such thing as a perfect time lapse. All artists have to tracers, sometimes there's something that doesn't click. And if somebody
[26:26] points out the issues, they immediately delete the time lapse. Sadly, Procreate references from showing in the final time lapse. So, Procreate time lapses are really unreliable. On Clip Studio Paint, it's possible to hide a reference
[26:38] layer. On top of that, Asami has now introduced chroma key tracing, which We got to talk about that one because what she did was she had a green sketch feature in her video editing tool to remove the color green from the video
[26:51] and then traced over that. Here we have some sus behavior of tracing. This one too. Layers on their own isn't really reliable because you can trace and still the traced product, and this is the image that was traced. The doc adds, "An
[27:06] artist not having time lapse is recorded prior is not strange." In earlier clips manually enable the recording every time to make a new canvas. In the case of Sai, there's no feature built into the program. The recording started at a
[27:19] the sketch or line art is not odd. Maybe the artist forgot to turn the speed paint on, or they purposely skipped it. Artwork files that have time lapses are selectively don't record everything they draw. The doc adds, "I don't think it's
[27:32] single image an artist have drawn. However, in the era of AI tracers, I strongly recommend recording everything you can just in case." I think that's tech issues. I used to draw on an iPad Air with 64 GB of memory, okay? Yeah,
[27:47] whatever. Exporting it, bro, my iPad had like no storage on there. It's hard, right? I get that. All of these other excuses are actual legit excuses, right? Genuinely people can have these errors. But, the
[27:59] big point that is I'm trying to emphasize over and over again is that like you wouldn't have all of these together unless something nefarious is going on. Like having an account after 2022, having sketches that look
[28:11] professional. All of a sudden you have a massive jump in skill quality, and your new art looks legitimately nothing like any of your old artwork whatsoever. Conveniently, no speed paints, no past work, no prior accounts prior to 2022.
[28:24] You also lose fingers and limbs every other art piece. You're really good at drawing latex, but not good at drawing any other fabric ever. And, your speed paint doesn't work. So, here we have some sus time lapses. This is by Foam
[28:37] have a video about them. We've confirmed they are an AI tracer. They've kind of Well, actually, maybe I don't know if that's true. Look at their speed paints. seems normal at a glance, there is a single frame where a layer is copy
[28:52] pasted in the image with all of the flat color and a detailed silhouette. There this. So, it would be impossible to use the filling tool fast enough to make it lapse. Oh, wait. What the hell? Hey, this is my video. Yeah. Anyways, we know
[29:07] that. Next up, oh my god, we have Asami. Asami was the one that did the chroma delete the old time lapses after I pointed out they were traced from AI. Asami speed paints and sketches, she knew exactly where every single face,
[29:20] eyeball, everything went. There was no sketch. It's straight into line art and then got caught cuz they were chroma keying. Next up, Yuikana9. I've also talked about this person. A lot of people were divided about these. The big
[29:32] one, people were like, "Yo, the anatomy doesn't look right compared to the level the anatomy in the sketch looks off. I also have a video about this person. >> [laughter] >> Mother is trying to record a video. I
[29:45] but he was like standing on my monitor arm. The doc adds, "This might be also hard to analyze a time lapse that is 30 seconds long as it's sped up and condenses the workflow. Some tracers intentionally only show 30-second time
[29:58] lapses because it skips a lot of the process that might look weird when art was traced on a separate canvas then pasted into the canvas that was know, Yuikana was found to be tracing AI because people found their old account
[30:11] "It's worth noting in some cases when a tracer posts a time lapse that appears to be odd and people point out things that look wrong, the tracer uses this as feedback. And their next time lapse will look vastly different as they will add
[30:23] what was missing. That's the big one, too, because people will be like, "Wait, weird because she has no sketch. She goes straight into the line art and her next speed paint they post, they'll suddenly have a sketch in it. So, like,
[30:37] no shade, no tea, if that's literally how you draw and you out the gate, you literally how you draw. Why don't you stick with it, bro? Like, it's always up. And they'll suddenly start doing things that they never do before, and
[30:50] the one where they had a whole bunch of speed paints, and they did different speed paint. They had one where they would like sketch and then do the line scale. They had one where they would use a giant marker brush to block in the
[31:03] body and then line over that. All of these are completely valid, and artists they see fit. But, along with every single other accusation of Choco Pie, red flags. So, here are a whole bunch of different artists with their speed
[31:16] these artists kind of have like a more soft art style compared to like line art and cell shading. So, it might not be the most fair comparison. But, that when you look at it, you know, every artist has their own speed paint and their own
[31:29] completely valid to the artist. You're allowed to draw however you want. That artists, you see they have some consistency with how they draw. Like, every speed paint, if an artist likes drawing body first, head second, they'll
[31:42] one, you know? Or, if they like to block in the body with a big brush first, single piece. And again, an artist is completely allowed to do something and then change their mind and want to do it a different way later. So, they'll have
[31:55] scale, for instance. But, you would, again, typically see that like every lapse also needs context on the artist behind the account. The reason why I why there's no correct looks to a time lapse because something that seems weird
[32:10] unless it's like skipping frames. So, here, this is a time lapse that appears have been following this artist for almost 10 years, so I know the time believe the skill level can be achieved. But, if it was a brand new account that,
[32:25] usernames, then it would raise some alarms." And I agree to that, too. There are some artists that genuinely can just straight shoot into line art. That on its own is not sus. They hit like 10 of these red flags and that then it's like,
[32:38] okay, that's a bit interesting. Now we have methods to forge video recordings. So here are some methods, digital methods and physical methods. So a program and then recording a window capture in OBS that only records the
[32:52] drawing program. So it doesn't record the window on top of it. So here is a drawing so it looks like they're drawing a legit speed paint. You can see the layers, right? So it doesn't look like they're tracing anything. But this is
[33:06] the fake process. So here they have a really, really faint, right, screen above it. And then that screen above it is that like blue fox character and looks like they're drawing legit, but it's not. The doc adds, how can you tell
[33:20] the sketch will be static. If there's any changes in the sketch position, they match the new position or readjust the obvious because there'll be gaps or pauses when they're sketching and in the
[33:33] the gaps might not be obvious or they could completely edit that out. The way the canvas position appears static when they sketch, they readjusted back at the position level changes, will look unnatural, especially when they're done
[33:46] with the sketch in the same kind of canvas micro repositioning. As in they specific spot and it's entirely missing during the rest of the video. the recording, you will notice the moment they move it down to their task
[33:59] order to adjust the image they're tracing and there'll be a brief pause we have two where they're kind of doing that. The doc adds, an argument people really zoom in while sketching and this is true. I'll emphasize that what stands
[34:13] out here is if the canvas is moved, they will move it back to the same spot when they began sketching, often using the navigator or scroll bars. And the doc people use the scroll bar to move the canvas as it can be inconvenient. If
[34:27] continue sketching on it for long and place lines on top of already existing they will flip the canvas because they canvas, you know? And again, every artist can draw their own way, blah blah
[34:40] people flip the canvas, they're trying to check to see if it looks legit, the eye looks off. Let me move the eye again." Every time they flip the canvas, put it back. They flip it, they put it. And that's completely valid. Some people
[34:53] looks good. Flip it back. Draw a little bit more, flip it. Still looks good. Put point that I'm trying to make is that these people, when they get to this accusations under their belt because they hit every single other red flag.
[35:07] And then, on top of that, flipping, doing nothing, putting it back, back. [laughter] It just makes it look a little bit odd. And the doc adds, "A recording and some adjustments will make for a really believable physical
[35:21] recording." So, this one is helicopter food. An analysis of helicopter food. concluded. I have a whole video about helicopter food as well. I'll link it consensus was that this was completely fake. And that people thought it was a
[35:34] the speed paint on top of it. For them, some observations. One, the sketch of the liner is never zoomed in or rotated, ever. And if it's done, there's no convenient excuse after the liner is done and before the coloring starts is
[35:48] recordings that were stitched together. Three, the date and time part of the Four, the recording doesn't show their tablet or hand holding their pen, so you Five, the paint tool, sorry, program bar is missing the asterisk that indicates
[36:03] yet. The moment you place a stroke on the canvas, an asterisk will pop up next impossible to draw without the asterisk showing up. This points out as the the OBS icon on their task bar. It's in the recording mode because it has the
[36:18] red dot. So, the doc continues. Here's how it was forged. The doc's theory, capture to fake a a paint using the overlay open, but it wasn't recording the overlay and they traced on top of
[36:30] that. While they were recording their screen capture with OBS, they replayed while using a display capture source. They can only assume the SAI program bar is a fake PNG image on top. So, that's why is in the final IRL video, you can
[36:43] see the OBS recording icon, too. Their taskbar was visible as they recorded since they use a display capture to replay the window capture. And then, now ready, they replay the second video in full screen that with their phone. One
[36:56] thing that I also want to add TLDR is that all of these people, when they are accused of tracing and they need to, you know, cook up a legit looking video, they always have the shittiest looking speed paint video that you've ever seen.
[37:08] And there always things cropped out. They never show everything. There's layers are missing, time is missing, or it is like 240p. Now, I understand not tripod that can set up to go record, you know, their screen cuz most people just
[37:22] use the computer recording, but like, what are the odds every single one of getting fully proven that they were tracing AI has the shittiest recording their name. You really have to think about it from like a human perspective,
[37:36] right? If you are a legitimate artist that was falsely accused of using AI, wouldn't you want to like knock this out of the park? Like, [ __ ] you guys, I'm not using AI. I am drawing legitimately. I will show you. Here's a recording,
[37:48] full screen, see all the layers, see the time, see my hands, see my drawing tablet, and I'm going to draw live. Here's a 4-hour recording, now go screw that? So, like from that perspective, it doesn't make sense, either. Next up, we
[38:01] have the chroma key. This is the Asami Art special. Basically, you need to be able to video edit. The way it works is you put a green layer or something, okay? A green layer. I showed this in my Asami Art video, by the way. But you put
[38:13] like a green layer, okay? And then, you draw over the green layer, and then you use your editing software to remove the color green out of your image. So, you can see here in this color wheel, there is no green. That's because the green
[38:26] was edited out. In your editing software, you can edit any color out, so edit out blue or pink or whatever, okay? But, just note that will not be a color right? Because this person chose the chroma key green out, in the final
[38:40] drawing, there is not a single shred of green. Obviously, because they edited the color out. But, yeah, you can do it pink or whatever. This was a sammies, the most obvious one ever. Because when a sammie opened wheel in procreate, the
[38:52] green is completely grayed out. And then when they started coloring their image, the green is back. Wow. So, yeah, the doc goes into the very like dum-dum which I like how the doc does that so that there's no way people can like
[39:06] misunderstand. You select one color out. You can do that in your editing software. The doc also adds, at the 1:15 minute, she uses the quick menu to make a new layer instead of opening the layer tab, obviously. Because if you show the
[39:18] there is an AI layer she's tracing. I feel like most people use the layer tab. quick menu. And then at 2 minutes in, you can see she quickly opens the layer tab. The video implies this is a brand new canvas, yet layer one is missing.
[39:32] Again, if you add an image in, it adds as layer one when you open the first layer, and then layer two, three, four, five. So, where did layer one go? This suspicious when it comes to people's speed paints and did they trace AI or
[39:45] not? A lot of people with speed paints where they're trying to disprove AI, there are many legit cases where you don't have a layer one. You open up and you think it looks ugly. You delete it, you make a new one, and you're like,
[39:57] many legit reasons why you wouldn't have a layer one. But, a lot of times with because that was the AI image they're tracing over and they deleted that. Again, don't just go out accusing people if they don't have a layer one or time
[40:11] lapse, but these people are people that already hit 10 of these red flags, and where they're opening it. And they also don't have the color green in their pro create cuz they throw Makita out. Come on. Next up is AR tracing. This is what
[40:23] Choco Pie did, allegedly. So it's through your phone, you know, you record transparent image that you can see through your phone, and then they record the drawing. But in the recording process, you don't see that hidden layer
[40:36] because it's not shown in the recording. The doc adds, "This is why I believe the only irrefutable proof of somebody's active skill. Tracers could still use but you will notice it." And honestly, I agree. Unfortunately, nowadays the way
[40:51] it's been the most dead obvious this person isn't tracing is if they've done their drawing in any way, they've done Magma sessions with other artists that can verify, or they are an artist that's been around for 10 years so that there's
[41:03] seen. So people know this person's legit. Another point, styles resembling take inspo from others to develop their style, and it's natural. And in some cases, some artists can fully copy or emulate a style that inspires them,
[41:17] which can be controversial. So an account posting images that resembles another style doesn't immediately mean they're tracing AI images. But we're going to talk about LoRAs. LoRAs are low-rank adaptations, and it's a smaller
[41:29] model trained with specific data to fine-tune details in large models. style they like, feed them into like AI, make a LoRA out of it, and the LoRA is only in this one artist style. So here we have some examples. So this is an
[41:43] generations. This is an artist traced adds, "If you follow and support tons of artists online, it can be easy to spot the original style somebody is tracing from." And the doc adds, "Regarding AI
[41:55] for referencing, finally, I'll address AI referencing. I believe referencing AI AI models were trained with Danbooru data ranging from 2 million to 20 million artworks, and there's tons of environmental concerns. But as always,
[42:08] point fingers at others without looking at the full picture. The internet is artist might be referencing AI images without knowing it's AI. The doc adds, you know, oh, it's so obvious it's AI, but some might simply not be aware of
[42:22] how advanced AI has come in two years. Some artists might be uneducated about the topic and be not aware of how generative AI is trained with other far-fetched they wouldn't be aware, but I believe educating people should be
[42:35] done in an amicable way instead of patronizing others. I agree, too. Again, it can't be one where how did you not know? Dude, sometimes people just don't obvious to you may not seem really obvious to other people. And I agree, a
[42:48] education. If somebody doesn't know and you're kind of like, "Hey, you know, I Like AI isn't great. It's trained off a lot of artists." And they're like, "Oh, it from a really combative way where you're like, "You should have known.
[43:02] [ __ ] you." Like da da da da da. We're not going to arrive at a good conclusion day, the hope is that people don't use generative AI and you know, cause a lot of environmental damage and use a lot of water to generate anime girls. But that
[43:14] we're never going to get there if like the method to get there is to harass, belittle, and combat everybody, right? So again, it can seem very obvious like, conversation about this. You should know. But, you know, I think a good
[43:28] conversation can go a long way. So the doc continues, "The thing is that when from the same AI outputs, instead of learning the fundamentals of art, you which is why a lot of the tracer
[43:42] exact same poses and the exact same faces. It might not seem like it on the surface, but most AI anime girl images are just slight variations of the same dozens of poses with similar proportions over and over again. Here we can see
[43:55] three examples. Generalizations can be harmful when dealing with this topic, so AI poses, but there's definitely some compositions that AI favors. You can often observe these similarities across gen AI or tracer accounts, but sometimes
[44:08] a coincidence simply is a coincidence. Here we can see more examples. like the lower up angle three-quarter body pose with the chest tilted upwards, so you can see the underside of the boob. That's just what I have seen a lot
[44:21] real people, there are a lot of real artists who just like poses like that. No shade to that, you know, but this is again in context with everything else. heavily reference are not learning anatomy. By tracing, they carry over the
[44:36] they're beginners, they would not be able to spot them in the first place. lighting or color theory. They won't have a defined color palette associated heavily reference and color pick from AI." Here we have some examples, right?
[44:52] generated image, and then the time lapse. And it says, "The artist behind reference being AI, as it was their reinterpretation, and it wasn't malicious. Brand new unique art styles will stop emerging, and a new generation
[45:06] of artists will only be able to produce lifeless works if they can only rely on AI to draw instead of building their own distinctive styles. As somebody who consuming digital art for 15 years now, I've already started noticing how many
[45:19] artists are leaning towards the same look. Here we have some examples of AI-generated images versus traced images. A lot of the expressions and "I've already given my ending statement at the end of part one. I am exhausted,
[45:33] meant as a way to cause discord or fighting and people who enjoy art. I believe everyone can do better. I will continue to support honest, hardworking growth. The only thing left for me to say is, thank you for reading." And
[45:48] day, right? Not to use this as a way of bullying or harassing others, but for people who are looking to try to commission artists, how can you spot be a way that you can tell. And here are a few examples of artists that are doing
[46:03] these exact things. These are covered at the end of the Choco Pie doc. A lot of on my channel because they are notorious for tracing, scamming, and they've another artist, Idol Mia. Here they say, "I'm not AI, dude. I work hard and draw
[46:17] for over 5 years. Stop being a hateful, unstudied person." And it adds, "Idol commissions back in 2025. These commissions were $250 plus. The AI images were posted online by other accounts. They were not generated by
[46:32] Idol Mia themselves, so it was easy to track original sources. Despite this, Idol Mia claims they didn't use AI. Most of these were not even fully traced, just hair and paint overs while keeping the AI-generated body and clothes. Here
[46:45] by sides, more side by sides. Somebody made a big old call out about them, and then Idol Mia put out this ginormous post on Twitter, basically playing understand how much I hate AI. I hate AI. All my stuff is human-made." They
[46:59] prove they didn't use AI. And then people look at the time lapse and were like, "Yo, this looks weird." And then they deleted it. And somebody paid $450 ghosted. Here we have another artist, Prex Mal. Just note, no official
[47:12] outfits, always my own variants and fresh designs. We've already covered account that traces AI while running real artist work through image to imaging." And they were open about using AI. Here somebody asked them what tools
[47:25] Photoshop, and Illustrator." Here they say, "Yep, it's made by AI, but not from prompts alone. I did this, that, this, that, this." Which I also think it's when people use AI to generate imagery, right? They always get so defensive
[47:39] about it being a lot of effort. They're like, "Oh, no, no, no. I I use AI, but no, no, no, no, no. It's not just a brain-dead prompt. I did this. I put in Let's call a spade a spade, bro. You prompted it. That's easy. You just put
[47:51] in a prompt, no? Like AI bros like to walk two lines at at time, which is not possible. They like to claim that AI is easy, fast, and simple, and yet, wow, this is actually a masterful creative work that I spent a lot of time doing.
[48:04] It's not both, so pick your poison. So, when confronted, they just started attacking people. Here's another page, Red Post-It 101. And it adds, "There is a group of people that were generating AI back in 2023 who later moved on to
[48:16] trace AI instead. They quietly removed mentions of Stable Diffusion and AI in their workflows or make it sound like they're not explicitly tracing." But, a lot of the posts yet. So, here this person says, "I don't use apps and all
[48:29] that [ __ ] that copy styles. I use Stable Diffusion and I created my own style And then they also add, "If I only have 2 hours, I'll use AI to speed up the examples. And again, the reason why it's
[48:41] harmful is for a number of reasons. One, most of these artists are using LoRAs or from other actual legitimate artists. So, one, it's already stealing profits straight-up violating the artists' work, their integrity, and the amount of time
[48:55] and effort they spent developing their art style, completely ripped away with a their art trained on, they didn't consent to it, and they're likely not And then secondly, these people are scamming because they're pretending they
[49:09] are a legitimate artist hand-drawing their pieces with fake speed paints and things like that when they didn't. And third, a lot of these people don't even They'll take hundreds of dollars for a commission and then not deliver and
[49:21] ghost the client. At the day, people are going to do whatever they do. I don't to be people who will use it regardless. That is your choice, that's up to you. I'm not your mom, I can't tell you what to do. But, at the same time, it's just
[49:34] the deception, right? Because most of these people commissioning these artists that they think they're commissioning a legitimate human artist who is hand-drawing the work, but they're not. They're commissioning somebody who is
[49:47] prompting AI to get an image, and then maybe they color over it, maybe they But the person who commissioned them is commissioning them under the premise that they're thinking no AI is being used. So, at least having more clarity
[50:00] if these people were to disclose that their images were AI generated, etc., then people will go into it with the full knowledge of what is happening. And generative AI and purchase it, that's their money at the end of the day. I
[50:12] don't like that. But for people who think they're purchasing legitimate purchase from these people because they don't support that. And it's that the day that is very important. Because again, if AI is so good, generative AI
[50:25] is so cool, why are so many of these artists coming out here and pretending aren't? That's always the interesting question. So again with this, right? Don't bully or harass anybody. Don't send threats. That is not cool. It
[50:40] else. This is again for awareness and education as if you are somebody looking to commission an artist, you know, take all of these to heart. Do a little bit having doubts, contact some artist friends to go take a look. Look up the
[50:54] red flags that were mentioned in the document. But finally, I do want to add a big old disclaimer again. A lot of those red flags are things human artists skill can be explained away by really locking
[51:08] just like one face expression and it just happens to look really anime-esque. Sometimes people forget fingers. It happens. So when you see like one or two, don't just go slinging accusations out there for people, okay? But the big
[51:22] one is again, when an account hits way too many of these red flags, maybe commission, mm, maybe see if you can do a little bit more research on them first, you know? But don't just use like one or two pointers to start bullying
[51:34] and slinging accusations. That's not cool. But yeah, with that, if you like and subscribe. For some of the other AI scammers that we have talked about in videos I've made on them linked down below because these are some massive
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