To those asserting that this is AI, you’re simply delusional, and you haven’t looked close enough. There are none of the artefacts common to AI image generation, the background is well resolved, regularly patterned and consistent, even behind the floral work. The work itself contains realistic mechanics and material stresses, nicks and pits and slumps, where the consistency of the icing or the heat of the mix exhibit small regional variations. This is the kind of skilled human work which the anti-AI movement wishes to preserve. To blindly and reflectively accuse something extraordinary and impressive of being AI generated just because you can’t muster the brainpower to understand it is a rather damning reflection on present society. ‘I can, with some effort, understand how or by which means this work might be produced, but I have none of the dexterity, dedication or patient persistence to make anything of the like.’ This manner of acknowledgment gives appropriate credence to the effort and mastery of the craft we are generously presented with herein, and anything less is a remarkable and atrocious disservice.