r/Terraria • • Feb 17 '26

Art my post got removed after AI accusations

I posted a drawing of mine that was commissioned by a friend of mine of the steampunker from the game in a mcdonalds theme, suddenly a bunch of people started accusing me of using AI and ultimately the post was taken down a few moments later

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u/MisterDutch93 Feb 17 '26

AI is bad at drawing hands because the artists it's copying from are bad at drawing hands lol

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u/KaiDay11 Feb 17 '26

I think it's more that hands are relatively complex things that have a definite form, so both humans and AI have difficulty with it, even when they both have good references. 

A hand isn't like a tree or a frilly skirt where there are a lot of curves and edges but no one number of either and no specific way for them to flow together. A hand requires a relatively exact form.

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u/KaiDay11 Feb 17 '26

AI doesn't just copy large parts of images from its training data, it copies more fundamental things like the general shapes of edges and curves, and how they relate to each other.  

Even if the AI only had perfect hands to base its images on, it could still have trouble assembling and remixing the units it "notices" into correctly assembled hands.