Link to the challenge result announcement.

https://krita.org/en/posts/2025/monthly-update-27/?pk_kwd=KritaMonthlyUpdate-Edition27

Krita hosts these painting events monthly then gives the award to their best pick.

Here is the link to the winner, by Mythmaker.

https://krita.org/images/posts/2025/mu27_mouse_sage-mythmaker.jpeg

Anyway, out of curiosity, I ran it through https://wasitai.com/. This is what it tells me.

We are quite confident that this image, or significant part of it, was created by AI.

  • egrets@lemmy.world
    23·
    2 days ago

    The artist has shared two iterations of their painting, and you can flick through their post history to see them honing their skills over five years, including more art on the same clothed-mice theme, also with multiple versions.

    Using an AI tool uncritically on !fuck_ai@lemmy.world to accuse a genuine artist of using AI is not really in the spirit of the community, IMO. Edit: miscommunication – OP was spotlighting the mistake made by the detection tool, not accusing the artist of using AI.

    • CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.mlOP
      62·
      3 days ago

      That’s what I said. I’m sorry if I made you think that I was “exposing a fake artist using AI.”

      • egrets@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 days ago

        Ah, the way you worded your post definitely gave me the impression you were accusing the monthly contest winner of using AI, not criticizing the AI detection service! And from the comments, most others read it the same way.

        • CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.mlOP
          2·
          2 days ago

          Thank you for being kind.

          I get that from other comments too. If you read carefully, you can see all I said is fact, i.e., what happened. I don’t use the place in OP to express my own opinion because it may form a bias.

          Oh, and any one thinks I am stupid enough to “out” skilled, regular artists on one of the most popular drawing softwares’ forum?

          I donate to Krita regularly by the way. I love Kiki.❤️

          In this case, “fuck AI” fucks the tools, which is AI itself, try to detect and claim real people’s work as AI-generated.

          And fuck this AI art trend as well.

          • egrets@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 days ago

            I think you perhaps assumed that others have the same context as you, in terms of familiarity with the software, the forum/community, and the contests. Given that you knew Mythmaker is an actual artist, a couple of words in the affirmative would have made a big difference to the reading of the post!