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The thing that at first glance tipped me off to the AI images was one of the most common issues: several instances of whatever is the most important keyword.

Playing basketball? Multiple balls! The planet is a ball!

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> The planet is a ball!

I actually like this dollop of creativity. Humans tend to ground their pictures in reality more than necessary for prompts that sit firmly in the realm of fantasy.

In general I would love it as a creative bit of whimsy. The problem is that it's a very specific type of nonsense which after a while becomes recognizable as the art style of AIs in general. This both makes it feel less original and stick out as a recognizable computer artifact.

That’s what made me think the first image was drawn by a human. I thought it was a cheeky and funny way of interpreting a prompt that the AI wouldn’t have done…

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