[00:01] people scamming with gen AI in any way possible. And one of those ways is scamming with brushes. This is so funny. And they're posting a video that on first glance, it looks like Ethan's drawing, where they have an image of a
[00:16] from Chainsaw Man, and they take a little meme face, shrink that meme face down, and then use it to form the lips for this character. On first glance, cute, funny, and then it ends with a little slide that says, "Discover these
[00:30] brushes." And Ethan writes, "Perfect Procreate brushes in my link in bio." This is already odd, because this is already not ethical 101. Taking somebody else's video, and albeit sure, Ethan gave credit, they named them as Amelia
[00:45] Harper, but he's advertising his brushes in somebody else's video. In fact, if you go to his page, his whole account is just taking other people's artwork and videos, posting it to Twitter, albeit with a tag, and then immediately
[01:00] advertising his brush packs beneath it. And people looked and noticed, "Wait a sec, his brush pack looks a little sus. It looks a little scammy." First off, all looking really AI-esque? And then again, a big thing you see when people
[01:14] advertise their brushes is you would see them using the brush in their videos, which they don't, right? You don't see a single video of Ethan drawing with these brushes, but somehow they've got a Gumroad with these brushes visible. He
[01:27] anime rendering kit is finally available. Brushes for sketching, line art, shading, glow, textures, and effects made for anime artists." And if you look closely, this also looks super, super AI, in a very different art style.
[01:41] This is the very common AI-esque art style you would find. And again, how do you tell? One really notable one is the anatomy. The ear looks like this bro's punching the air a couple times too many. You don't often find artists
[01:54] to Ethan's link tree, there's another ultimate brush pack with another woman that also looks really AI generated. over it, but secondly, there are other errors that look odd. She's wearing a
[02:08] across her neck. Like, where did the rest of the choker go? Maybe it's in the shadow, but that's kind of odd and drawn very interestingly. And then Ethan got clocked. This account writes, "Beware, these annoying accounts reposting
[02:21] starting to promote their scam brush kits. These are AI images. Please block these accounts." And thankfully, as of now, Ethan's Gumroad is not available. Don't send hate to anybody, but bro is scamming beyond scamming and falsely
[02:35] advertising with other people's work, which is just scummy.