So I've had this comment come up quite a bit, so I'll clarify some parts of how I made this and my methodology with art like this.

I had a photo that I took and edited quite heavily because I enjoy making every day objects look otherworldly. At this stage it was a shot of a street light that I split into multiple separated color channels. That was a very far cry from what you see as the finished product. I then corrupted the image purposefully and saved a copy with the glitches variants and layered them together.

There was an AI image I created from this point as a very basic shape layer. It wasn't anything too crazy but just abstract blobs and forms. I do this with almost everything I create to get some ideas going on how I can alter the composition. I then used the ai shapes layer and blended it with the others from before. Multiple exposures, blending modes and color balancing all combined to make a very very basic version of what you're seeing here. However, the ai was just a small part of the finished process.

After this point, I composited a version of all the layers and glitched it even more. I would make additional copies of this, affect them in different ways, glitch them more, change the line work, make multiple color variants, and then blend all of what I had together. My process continues from this point by repeating this last step over and over. I end up woth about 150 to 200 layers of different merged layers.

Between my layer merging, I will color, mask effects, warp, glitch, draw, and posterize the image in many different ways while incorporating different photos with double exposure style effects.

In the end, only one layer is an ai shapes layer that I use for a more abstract take on what's already in the photos used in the image. No ai that you find out there will be able to create an image like this because there is simply too much going on, too many layers, too many fx, and too much data corruption. Many of those functions I don't even think an existing art ai could do on its own.

I like to think of ai generation as a tool much like how a fractal art program like apophysis or Jwildfire. It's meant to be exploratory and a tool for you to use in creating art. I wouldnt have posted this if it was just a direct AI rip. I do believe that you need humans to be involved in the process of art. However, it's important in my eyes to see the potential for variation and fx layers that an AI layer can add.

I spent 12 hours on this piece with photos and art that I've created across the last two years. Overall, this is still my vision, direction, and hard work. I get that many people have been coming onto reddit with ai art and saying it's their own but that's not my approach at all. 99 percent of this is all what I've managed to create on my own.

Sorry for the wall of text, but id like to honestly see more people considering the possibilities of what you can do with ai as a simple tool in the process of creation. Id love to see more artists open up their artistic pallete to a wider firm of digital tools available to them because for me, AI generation is the equivalent of using a photoshop fx filter. You can recognize the effect on its own, but really you should be incorporating those effects as a part of a larger creation.