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.
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.
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.
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!