---
title: 'Their Artwork For This Contest Looks Suspiciously AI...'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=7SMyrtyI6pk'
video_id: '7SMyrtyI6pk'
date: 2026-08-14
duration_sec: 100
---

# Their Artwork For This Contest Looks Suspiciously AI...

> Source: [Their Artwork For This Contest Looks Suspiciously AI...](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7SMyrtyI6pk)

## Summary

The video analyzes artwork submitted to an Indonesian coffee brand contest, pointing out multiple signs that it was AI-generated. The artist's response and a suspicious speedpaint video further fuel the accusations.

### Key Points

- **Character Inconsistencies** [00:14] — The artwork features characters Frieren, Himmel, Fern, and Stark with inconsistencies like Himmel missing heterochromia, Frieren's earrings different, Stark missing a wound, and Fern having soulless eyes.
- **Artist's Response** [00:28] — The artist insisted they drew it but had no speedpaint recording, only a video from a software update, which raised suspicions.
- **Fake Speedpaint Video** [00:40] — The speedpaint video showed random color selection and brush strokes, with Himmel's face and hair fully rendered but no other elements, making it look fake.
- **Red Flags** [01:19] — The account was new with no other art pieces, and the image was a JPEG, which is unusual for artists who typically work in .sai format.

## Transcript

contest for an Indonesian coffee brand called Tomorrow Coffee. And immediately looks really AI." They pointed out a couple of things. This is our Frieren, Himmel, Fern, and Stark. Himmel does not have heterochromia, but for some reason
here. Frieren's earrings are different. Stark is missing their signature wound above their eye. Fern has the most soulless eyes ever. And if you zoom in, both Fern and Stark are holding little coffee cups of themselves, except it
looks really, really scuffed. Fern looks really chopped here. I'm sorry. So, for using AI, the artist insists they did it. People were asking for speed didn't even think about recording it and making it a speed paint like everyone
else does." Meanwhile, all I have is a video from when the software update happened. Because somehow conveniently they have a video of them drawing on phone. So, this is the drawing, and it was done in PaintTool SAI, and it looks
very fake. As in, they're just randomly color selecting and applying brush strokes to the hair. Very notably, Himmel's face and hair are actually completely rendered, but literally no other element of the background is
also pointing out as really odd. Again, but this is again a brand new Twitter account with like no art pieces except caught? The fact that in PaintTool SAI,
the image is a JPEG, which like, what artist works in JPEG? It's compressed, Not like you can't do that, but you're literally like working with one hand tied behind your back if this is the format you choose to use. If you open a
canvas in PaintTool SAI, it opens as .sai. So, immediately everyone is like, .sai. So, immediately everyone is like, "What are you doing?"