I’m swimming-with-mermaids delighted to reveal the cover of my next solarpunk mystery novel, Missing Mermaid. Right now I’m deciding how best to arrange the text on the cover. Do you recommend option one (author name on her tail) or option two (author name and title both up in the sky)?
The illustration is by Nell Fallcard. You can order the ebook, internationally, on the indie site Smashwords after its release on May 24th. You can preorder the book on Amazon. The paperback will come later on Barnes and Noble.
It was pretty clearly AI. The braids and tail make no sense
I don't think that's so obvious and I would also caution people to not go on witch-hunts on what can clearly be a grey area. Artists assembling images out of various sources is not uncommon and due to the abundance of AI generated images these days they might not even have been aware.
It is IMHO also false to call AI generating images stealing, its a bit more complex than that. But I fully understand and respect if someone doesn't want to use AI generated imagery over ethical concerns.
Okay well I think your just wrong. Hell, even the law thinks your wrong. Using art as reference can be dangerous if your work is not meaningfully different and you pass it off as your own. Scott Cawthon got into trouble a few years back after one of his hired artists used a fanart model of a version of one or the characters as reference for a promotional piece.