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AI "art" is prone to nonsensical hallucinations with people gaining extra fingers, background elements bleeding together, and everything just looking uncanny. It's technically possible that you could train yourself to try and imitate this "style", but it would be both incredibly difficult to learn, and also be incredibly unrewarding- even putting aside having to prove you did, in fact, make said piece of art, it would still be as ugly as the AI stuff no one likes anyway.

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[–] Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Counterpoint: AI slop does not have a "style" But a look that is an artifact of all the the material it is trained on and the limitations of the technology. It has a series of visual tropes, for example the odd glossy sheen it tends to have. The oversaturated colors; the tendency to frame centered subjects like social media posts; the rigid composition of clip art and stock images; Even the best image or video generations tend to all have these traits and it's hard to coerce them to move away from them.

So in a time where even human made media tends to be flattened and averaged by the over influence of pop culture, the biggest disservice you can give yourself as a creative is making your work even more sterile by imitating AI generations.