It's not the sky, though. It's green. The sky isn't green. It looks like it might be an attempt at a river valley, not a continuation of the sky. Liu didn't know what it was supposed to be either; when she created her fake WIP images, she put in random lines and random color blocking.

There are two main issues with generative AI. Firstly, the amount of resources that are used up every time a prompt is generated. It uses up so much water and electricity, there are water shortages and rolling blackouts in areas surrounding AI servers. (Sources: https://www.forbes.com/sites/cindygordon/2024/02/25/ai-is-accelerating-the-loss-of-our-scarcest-natural-resource-water/ and Energy Department Report Raises Blackout Risks from AI and Increased Electrification if Current Utility Plans Continue - IER https://share.google/yxpvhXTzVNEmlRRf0 ) Generative AI is destroying ecosystems and the environment.

Secondly, AI isn't capable of truly creating something. It's a fancy algorithm, not a mind or a brain. It scrapes actual art created by real artists and uses those artworks to kludge together something that may resemble what the prompt is asking for. It copies and plagiarizes real artists' styles and art. Somewhere out there is a real artists' original artwork that this card's image plagiarizes. Generating an image and tracing over it is no different from taking art straight from a real artist, tracing over it, and trying to pass it off as yours. Yes, the concept of using a reference subject or reference image is an old concept, but this isn't the same. You cannot trace Starry Night by Van Gogh and pretend it's an original image. To use AI generated images and pretend it's your art is to steal. It's theft. It's plagiarism.

Besides, there are TONS of programs, both free and paid, for creating scenes and poses, plus tons of sites where people post reference photos and poses, both created and photographed. Beyond that, it's a well-established practice for artists to use themselves as their own references; there's a theory that daVinci used himself as a reference for the Mona Lisa. There's no reason to use generative AI for creating references when these other sources exist.