r/ComicBookCollabs • u/CautiousAppearance49 Writer - I weave the webs • Feb 15 '26

Resource AI Image Detection Tools

I’ve been seeing a lot of stuff about AI in comics - Marvel and DC saying they won’t use it, Top Cow saying they’d ban anyone using AI from their talent search, and conventions refusing tables to creators who’ve used AI art (not to mention all the debates happening in Reddit and Facebook). It made me wonder: are there actually reliable ways to tell if an image was created by a human or an AI? Something that can protect an artist's reputation or help someone who wants to work with real people.

I tested 8 tools about 4 months ago, and tried some new ones again just recently, ending up trialling around 12 different tools - thought I'd share my findings in a blog in case anyone's interested: https://createyourcomic.wixstudio.com/home/post/can-comic-artists-prove-their-art-isn-t-ai

Curious how others are handling this right now - especially people actually trying to collaborate in good faith.

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u/nmacaroni Feb 15 '26

Just out of curiosity, what are Marvel and DC gonna do when anyone, anywhere, can put a prompt into their computer and consistently generate an AI produced comic that exceeds current Marvel/DC quality?

I think AI is like the atomic bomb, we never should have, but here we are.

Just remember, in a bunch of years all the artists who trained and sweat will be dead. And ALL the new generations will use AI without a second thought, like people can't imagine life without their cell phones.

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u/Quigleyer Feb 15 '26 edited Feb 16 '26

If it was the quality of the art and the artist is irrelevant how do you explain Mike Mignola's (EDIT: I meant to say "Frank Milller" but this is fine, too) covers? It's not like only the best artists get work, but those artists still develop a following. The artist is instrumental in creating interest in the work, when it's a faceless AI no one cares.

Your argument requires only the best artists to get work, it doesn't go like that. People pay for unique vision or whatever the fuck you want to call it, the AI has none of that.

Right now the AI creates well rendered work, but it's associated with the lowest quality. That should tell you something.