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title: 'This Known Art Scammer Is At It Again...'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=aKycWHg46lM'
video_id: 'aKycWHg46lM'
date: 2026-08-17
duration_sec: 1439
channel: 'kat ''n chat'
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# This Known Art Scammer Is At It Again...

> Source: [This Known Art Scammer Is At It Again...](https://youtube.com/watch?v=aKycWHg46lM)

## Summary

This video analyzes a detailed callout post accusing artist Alexis GBN (formerly Ari Kushiu) of using AI-generated art and scamming clients. The creator walks through numerous alleged AI tells in the artist's work, discusses past stealing allegations, and highlights concerns about the artist selling tutorials and taking commissions while allegedly denying AI use.

### Key Points

- **Callout post introduction** [00:32] — A Threads account called Bookish Scammers Referral Writing posted a detailed callout about artist Alexis GBN, formerly Ari Kushiu, alleging AI usage and scamming. The post includes a disclaimer to avoid harassment and emphasizes it's for awareness.
- **AI tells in tattoos** [02:20] — The analysis points out that none of the tattoos in the artwork make sense, citing a skull with a fang in the eyeball, two nose holes, uneven teeth, and garbled shapes. These are common AI generation errors.
- **Anatomy and consistency errors** [04:08] — The ear is drawn at an impossible angle, and the neck tattoo changes significantly between two images of the same character. Professional artists would typically copy-paste complex details for consistency.
- **Sketch inconsistencies** [05:03] — The artist posts sketches that appear to be the same but have different levels of refinement, different pants, and different body proportions. The creator argues that reproducing exact lines twice is impossible for traditional art.
- **Theory: AI-generated sketches** [07:31] — The creator theorizes that the artist uses AI to generate sketches, then bases new sketches on those renders, explaining why details like a bathtub turn into an ocean and why sketches don't align with final pieces.
- **More AI tells** [10:00] — Examples include a fishing pole that disappears behind a pillar, ribs intersecting a skull, a femur bone intersecting the same skull, and a shoe sandal that wouldn't strap properly. These are classic AI generation errors.
- **Follower buying and money claims** [13:15] — The callout suggests the artist may have used a follower buying service. The artist allegedly claimed to have generated over $100,000 from artwork and posted a corny quote about making money with 'purpose.'
- **Past stealing allegations** [15:42] — The artist's second account, Arkushisu_11, was previously accused of stealing art and putting an AI filter on it. The creator confirms this is the same person and shows examples of the stolen art.
- **Commission prices and AI denial** [17:34] — Commission prices were €120 for a portrait, €280 for half body, and €400 for full body or duo. In DMs, the artist allegedly denied using AI when asked directly.
- **Google Gemini detection** [18:30] — A user ran one of the artist's images through Google Gemini, which indicated part of the image was made with Google AI. This adds to the evidence of AI usage.
- **AI-generated photos of the artist** [19:00] — Photos of the artist cooking and working show AI tells, such as spoiled avocados, a wall recession that disappears, and a desk with inconsistent depth. The creator believes these are generated images, not real photos.
- **Video inconsistencies** [21:19] — In a video of the artist painting, the tip of the paintbrush disappears and reappears. In another video, white lines stream from teacups, and reflections in food covers don't match, indicating AI generation.

### Conclusion

The video concludes that Alexis GBN has a history of using AI and stealing art, and warns new commissioners to be aware. The creator emphasizes not to bully or harass the artist, but to make informed decisions about commissioning.

## Transcript

you guys have actually asked me to look at and this was a long time ago and me slipped through the cracks. So, it kind of died down. People weren't really kind of was like, "Okay, maybe it's like a done deal." No, it's because they
anything about them in a minutes. But, they're back on their shenanigans again. So, let's delve into the situation with artist Alexis. DGBN or previously known as Ari Kushiu. So this was posted by an account on threads
called Bookish Scammers Referral writing. So this artist is super big red flag and why I think you should run. It reads why I think Alexis uses AI and
scams people. Alleged AI usage and enhancement. Buckle up. There's a lot to don't send hate. Don't bully anybody. That's not what this is about. It's for awareness because there are people who are commissioning this person and not
everybody may know of this person's past history as Ari Kushiu. It reads, "Disclaimer, this post is a compilation of proofs. The goal is simply to warn or not, commission this person or not. It's your own decision. This is not a
need. Do not comment on this person's account or send them bad DMs. A theory works with many proofs. A mistake on its own is just that, a mistake. Too many AI tells at once though. I will let you decide. And that's the thing at the end
that's like, oh, this looks a generator. A lot of it is can be human error. So, we want to look at everything as a whole. But again, this person has gone under a previous alias that has experienced a lot of call outs. So,
for me. No hate to this author. She truly thinks this artist is legit." And again, I just want to add, don't dog on the person commissioning the artist, commission artists, it's because they aren't artists. And a lot of times, you
know, you want to believe the artist. If the artist gives you work and it's like, "Cool. Thank you. Love to support humanmade art." And if you're not an artist, you may not be able to spot all of the errors in the art piece that
really point towards the fact that it probably is AI generated or AI assisted dogging on the people commissioning, right? Cuz now, if you know when you many of these people don't know. though it reads, "Let's analyze this commission
first. I won't even bother to mention the same face syndrome from AI." That one's a big one. All men generated have this uncanny valley generic look to them, but okay, moving on from that. First of all, none of the tattoos make
sense. None. By the way, that is a big one. When it comes to these hot, bookish, tatted men, the big tell you can kind of tell if it's AI generated or tattoos. Because when a human artist draws, they draw stuff that, you know,
here's a skull. Well, I'm going to draw some smoke and then I'm going to draw to connect it all with some, you know, lines and it's going to look cool." AI obviously is just generating slop. So none of it would make sense. Here, our
skull has a fang in the eyeball. There are actually two nose holes. The main there's a second one actually under the eye socket for some reason. And this
person has uneven teeth. You know how your teeth, you know, ate roughly for the most part lines up in the middle. We got two front teeth. Yeah, we got one offcentered from there because that makes sense. I actually knew somebody
teeth like that. But you know, you rarely would draw this on a skeleton. But if the the two nose holes didn't convince you, maybe that would. But not to mention the absolute garbled garbage going on around the skull because what
are morphing. The shapes on the sides are super abstract. There are six tally marks. Oh, bro doesn't know how to draw a tally correct. Dude, you need to fire It continues, "If you're going to put that amount of detail in a piece, you
would properly structure things. Plan it out as it should, like real tattoos." reference photos or something. Secondly, anatomy mistakes happen. That could be human error, but that ear has nothing to do here at this angle. Oh, bro's ear
earlier still stands as well. None of those are making sense. And if you look closer, the neck tattoo changes a lot from image A to image B. Why would somebody bother to redraw this whole complex thing? Even professional artists
would copy and paste and adjust for simplicity, coherence. Yeah, you would, little bit, and call it a day. There's this like gesture blob getting sucked a sudden, in the second image, it becomes a woman's scary face. Right in
the middle, there is a skull with a hood. Notably, the skull has a cataract because one eye is fogging up. And then in the second image, suddenly it's all cleaned up. The skull is way more HD and that cataract has faded into a tiny
got a crown. It says, "Next up." If that wasn't enough, we can take a look at his Right off the bat, I noticed that Alexis draws things sometimes twice, maybe even thrice, and it's not refining. Some
posts read recent inkings in the caption where the art can be seen sometimes with very fresh shiny ink on it. We're then to assume some of Alexis's art is traditional art on paper which we'll get back to. Given this example, maybe he
refineses indeed. Nope. This one was posted after. These two are not the same. The bottom character is more refined in the earlier piece and then after the character is less refined and somehow the guy has different pants, the
other guy. Also, these two guys aren't the same. Like the the waist is more dude. Bro went to some Pilates. And it reads, "Usually when an artist draws character, they know them by heart. Tell me why Alexis forgot where the arm
stopped for this piece, especially given that this is a canon event in the original media berserk and such a huge design point highlighting the arm." Next "Those are two entirely different sketches. Not the same pose, angle, or
sketchbook." Yep, this one is bigger and yet exact same building lines for the arm. Not just as a method, the exact same ones. An extra point, every sketchbook picture shows the same page of the sketchbook with the stitches. Not
every page is supposed to have stitches because yeah, only like a few pages have stitches. And you can see the sketches overlapped. Hm. How are they overlapping There. I mean, there are ways you could do it with like, you know, the screen
and stuff like that, but like that's not very common for just like a sketch like this where you're posting, you know. Oh, here we have March 18, a recent inking. And then April 13, a recent sketch. And it says, "Also, again, the sketch
doesn't land the same on the page." Look at Girly's hand. Cuz yeah, for these two, the hand comes off the page into the page on the left. And in this recent most part, except the tip of a fingernail on the same page. And it
sketch multiple times before getting to a result?" Yes, of course. I've done it. you've done it. Do I believe those are traditional sketches and inking? Nope. Absolutely not. You cannot reproduce twice the exact same lines. Even that
inking is off. Whether he used Chinese ink or watercolor, those two mediums are very sensitive to the graphite you could leave below. And why and how could he follow the exact same values he put down in the sketch he made nearly a month
later? It makes no sense. So, what do I think happened? AI. Simply shortly AI. I don't know if Alexis did give an initial sketch or not. As we can see earlier on his account, he can draw and he also definitely uses AI. Generate a sketch,
based on sketch, then sketch based on render. Probably given that bathtub turned into a sea cuz yeah, here he's in a bathtub, now he's in an ocean. So here it says, why is the portrait on the right more refined than the portrait on
the left? The hair, the dress. It is at this point impossible to know which one comes first. My theory is that both are different iterations of the same prompt is if you look at the portrait on the right, the image on the right is more
fleshed out, more rendered out than the image on the left, but the image on the right still contains all the guidelines, which is gone for the image on the left, finished product. But that can't be right because the image on the right is
left. So you would erase all the guidelines and all the rendering for the same images. The woman's head in this image is a little bit smaller and tilted a little bit more than the woman here. And now here we have a 02 image
where it says reflection in the sketch is more refined than the inked version. So are the tiles which stays in the sketch but different sketches lost their inking process. Huh? Why would anybody sketch so much detail and texture just
to erase it? Can we recognize that this doesn't make any sense? Because yeah, has to come before the inking. You you can't just erase the ink. It doesn't work that way. So the inking looks like it took place on top of a sketch except
sketch is much more refined out and there's this pillar here that is not here. So we have more full page sketch turned into a spread again. Exact same strokes and a lot got erased. Same point except half his abs became an arm. Do
you see how jacked up this arm is? This guy's arm on his left is not holding her waist because the arm is going straight down. Your arm would have to break to be able to hold her waist at this perspective. Come on. Everyone makes
If you can render this well, you're not going to be drawing bro's arm like that. Like, you supposedly can render too well to be able to muck it up that badly. But again, everybody makes mistakes, but all of this other evidence is so damning. It
the hand makes little to no sense. For a hand with such an angle, random circles would bring no one anywhere." Yeah, look at that. Look at that. again with the tats that lack structure and morph with the hair. The dragon is going into the
hair. Some more examples of AI nonsense. What's happening here? This mystery fishing pole that disappears behind this pillar is also melting into the bucket. There are ribs that intersect into a skull where a femur bone intersects also
into the same skull. This guy's shoe sandals don't strap properly cuz this would fall off. The hair strands are odd. Oh, the double boob shadow. Love that one. The is it a hair? Is it a strap? Yeah, we got even more. Oh my
god. OPK with the receipts. Hallucinating logo fingers under the Why are none of the fingers holding the bow? What is this tattoo supposed to be? dragon scales, but if you look closer, maybe it's a fish, but the fish is going
through handcuffs. And there is uh deer antlers up here for some reason. And I And then what is happening here? Spoiler alert, a whole load of nonsense. Suddenly pretty okay skeletons too. Even what was the need and why are they so
fundamentally different if the perfect writing and arrows aren't already a red and arrows are for me like a huge giveaway. Also, you can see that this together because like this arrow doesn't actually attach to this line. Neither
does this arrow and this line. It looks like the canvas was cut diagonally like like stitched. It continues, "A lot of this is just corny. Waist hip ratio without an actual measure. A torso axis that bends shoulder width as if we
didn't have eyeballs to see that already. I have to be fair a lot if not happening with the torso axis? We have more hair follows cranial structure. Nice. Math time. If head is one unit and neck is 1.2 units, what percentage of
giraffe is the man? Head height one units. Neck length two. That's crazy, The jawline angle thing makes no sense in the way it's described. Usually, you'd measure from the point of the ear on the outside angle. Yeah. What is
doesn't know what notes to take, just pointing out the obvious or hallucinating answers. I used to leave notes to myself in my sketchbooks, too, when you study or see mistakes, train, whatever. But we have to ask ourselves,
what is the purpose of those? Honestly, delving into this person's page is the difference game where you take a look at the art pieces and you take a look at the sketches and you try to see if they make sense. And the answer is a
lot of times it doesn't. And again, my personal theory is this person is also is you don't see a single comment mentioning AI, which I think this person filters their comments out where, you know, legit artists are getting weirdos
in the comments being like, "Oh, is this AI generated?" Whatever. So, it's interesting to see when somebody is actually having artwork that looks very AI generated to see not a single comment mentioning it, which typically again
But here, you know, we have a woman putting her hand on a guy on a guy's head and he's kind of squatting and we have guidelines. Note the guidelines for the woman because some of these aren't making sense. We have a line through
guideline like this, you would draw it like through the hip, but this is below the hip. We have a guideline above the knee and like a square for where she's across the shoulders that don't even meet the shoulders. Maybe this is for
the face. We've got this lovely art piece here where we have a real buff dude holding a really frail looking woman who is unclothed. But we've got uh four toes and this pseudo toe. What is happening here? That doesn't look right.
So anyways, let's go to the next part of this call out where OP writes the money that part. Not only because I don't understand and know the whole details, but legally this is iffy. What I'm thinking, however, is that this looks
like a follower buying service. One of the accounts that he helped got could only chalk it up to that. Allegedly, I can't say this for sure. corny quote, "I started using purpose and made so much money." End quote.
Please don't listen to those people even and especially if they show bank screenshots or flex their wealth. Like, what? I think we're beyond trusting influencers nowadays. I just want to add there's always an interesting theory.
talks about something, the less they have. The more somebody talks about money, the more insecure they are about it and the less they have of it, is clear, however, is that Alexa sees
grab. So, all right. Okay. We live in a capitalist society. I get it. But lying and scamming people out of their money using AI is utterly wrong. I am not sure amount and promising the same to your clients can be legal in France, which is
where the artist is from. Because yes, this person has a bunch of ebooks where he apparently will teach you how to get better at drawing, a bunch of ebooks better at drawing, a bunch of ebooks that teach you how to make money as an
artist, and he will teach you how to grow to 300,000 followers as an artist, tutorial information can be really walk in your shoes. But in my opinion, this is a bit deceptive because he can't
teach you how to grow to 300,000 followers as an artist because he grew to 300,000 followers by, in my personal opinion, generating images and possibly tweaking them a little bit if he feels like it to post it onto his Instagram to
garner followers. It isn't like he drew it himself. So, people who purchase his course are purchasing it assuming he drew everything himself and he has some secret sauce. And maybe he can teach you how to grow an AI generated page to
300,000 followers, but not as an artist. And the same thing of how to improve your art, whatever. Can this person draw? Possibly on his page, I haven't seen art videos of him drawing. A lot of the images look really AI generated to
me. So, this post continues. Do I believe that Alexis can draw? Yes, he clearly could draw before. I don't believe, however, that he genuinely does person has 300,000 followers. Whether
many people as possible can see this post. And reminder, please don't bully, harass, etc. this person. And then OP adds, "Moreover, I have been aware of stealing allegations against his second account, Arkushisu_11."
account. That was actually his main knowledge. Look at this page. Alexis.GBN. The Arakushu account gone now, right? All of these graphics made by Arakushisu_11.
I hit 100,000 followers as an artist. It's literally his page. But yeah, do you guys remember that name? If we scroll down, do you guys remember this art style? Yeah, it's the same dude. It's the same dude. But this post is a
screenshot from a user who writes, "AI artist Arakushi Su on Instagram stole my art and put an AI filter on it." Because Arakushi Su with this type of artwork where again on his page that watermark is right there, right? There's so much
generative AI tells in all of the artwork. This piece we've got Toi from JJK holding a gun, right? And all the gun ones are always really funny to me are four fingers. Where is the fifth finger? The fifth finger would be
visible behind where the trigger is, but there is a thumbnail somehow in the handle of the gun. Also, there's three fingernails. the middle finger. No fingernail for some reason. We've got this drawing where her pinky is very
long and play-dohike. Interesting that this character has large hoop earrings They're just floating. This character is sometimes you forget. This guy is not holding the gun properly. He's got all
five fingers on this side of the handle, which maybe you want to hold it that know what's happening with the hands here to be honest. And again, the reason why pointing out this is also very important is because this person in the
past has taken commissions. I don't know if they do it currently, but from actually provided me a year ago, these were the commission prices as of a year ago. A single portrait was €120, half body was €280, full body or a duo piece
€400. They also claimed to have generated over $100,000 from their artwork. And these were some DMs where somebody was like, "Hey, is there any AI involved?" And the artist said, "No AI." So, he's claiming
in DMs to people that no AI was used. And it goes even deeper. Somebody posted their artwork on r/Is AI writing, "Do you think that Aragushu's art is AI at all." This was one of the art pieces that was posted. Again, she has three
fingers. Where's the fourth one? Maybe the thumb can be hidden from this angle. Another one of the art pieces. Again, earlier we already found out this was another person's artwork that was fed through AI and a user says it's AI. It
embedded into the pixels. Well, they took the image and asked Google Gemini part of this image was made with Google AI. That's not a good look. And it actually gets even wilder because somebody in the comments did even more
digging. A user writes, "The whole man is AI. These are generated images, not photos." So, there is a photo of Alexis cooking where the cooking one is a little interesting. Maybe it's because of the filter that's applied on it, etc.
But we got some funky looking avocados. Homie, your avocados are spoiled. I wouldn't eat that. But we've got bajillion limes in a bowl, which I mean, maybe bro really likes limes for some reason. We've got chopped onions and a
glass container of more chopped onions and a really big pile of cilantro over here. But what's pretty damning is this one. And look at all the comments being turned off. It's Alexis apparently working. Oh boy, what's happening with
working. Oh boy, what's happening with the wall? Okay, so Alexis's ink artworks the wall? Okay, so Alexis's ink artworks are hung up on the wall, which Oh boy, with these art pieces as well. I don't believe that you drew this, homie. Like,
it's the same girl holding the gun, right? But what in the world is happening here? Why are the finger digits like bending? She's got a broken middle finger. But look at the wall. The wall has a recession in it. A really
minor recession of like 1 in. And then it goes behind this art piece of a hot anime man. And the recession is gone. Walls don't work like this. Also, the table just looks weird. Like there is this table shelf thing, right? And the
lamp is like kind of wedged into it. It's inset. Maybe this is probably like a 6 in inset. Maybe like five probably. Look at this side of the table though. that goes all the way off to where it gets cut off in the image. So, it looks
like your edge of your desk is super long here. This is like maybe like 10 in, right? This is like six, maybe five. Now, you could be like, "Oh, maybe it's like has less depth than the other side." Except there's a wooden beam on
your wooden beam would have to be diagonal, right? like narrow on one end and then widens at the other end in order to accommodate such like an uneven depth on either side of your your desk. That's odd. All right, and let's look at
click it. Let's look. There's a wind blowing this piece up, which first off, is the wind only blowing one of your art pieces and not all four of these? Because all four look to be only tacked up in the top parts. But secondly, where
is the recession in the wall? It's gone. We have him in a tub with the reflection of a blonde woman taking a picture of him or filming him in the tub sauna thing. Okay, this video the video of this woman painting looks really AI
art piece disappears behind her paintbrush. Like in this freeze frame, where did the tip of the paintbrush go? In an actual video, if you were to paint half your brush wouldn't disappear and then it reappears again. Well, wait.
Let's continue because there's a video of the food in the room. Not this one. The next one, the smoke coming out from the cups. Just take a look at that. Why are there white lines streaming upwards from your teacups, dude? Sorry, that it
there. I wouldn't drink that. And somebody grabbed a screenshot out of this video, the video where there was these random lines steaming out of the tea. But one dead giveaway that you can tell is there's these two dumb waiters,
or is that what they're called? Like the whatever metal covering for the food, reflections in it because these two reflections don't match. This one features a bookshelf that's black. So there's like maybe dark covered spines
two bookshelves next to each other. And kind of looks like there's a reflection of somebody maybe holding a camera like featured in this reflection. There is still that black item here, but it's now
vertical. So it looks like bro flipped his phone vertical and that was reflections are not of the same thing. They are distorted. And there's a little isn't featured here. And you really can't make the argument maybe the white
in the spot that would cause this reflection. The cup is over here. So that's weird. So I mean at the end of the day, right, don't bully, don't like, well, why are you talking about this? Because it's known that this
person has been using generative AI in their process for like a hot minute. A didn't know he rebranded. But secondly, there's a lot of new people trying to commission artists, new authors, etc., and they may not know that this person
has this history. So again, gin is power, right? Don't bully or harass want to commission this person after knowing all of this, go for it. If you to you. It's your money. It's your power at the end of the day. I'm not your mom.
I can't tell you what to do. I can just tell you to be a good person. Yeah. So with that, if you like this video, I appreciate it if you like and subscribe. Don't forget to check me out on Etsy. Sorry. Also, my necklace. I have really
it. I really like it. So, I was wearing it, but it's been making my neck itch course of this filming. So, I think that's why my neck is getting redder and skin around my neck is so sensitive. So,
hickeys. But, if you restart this video, you'll see that this isn't there. Okay. a week. Mondays and Saturdays 6 p.m. PST or Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. PST where I do out there or in another one of my videos. Peace.