It’s funny how recognizing AI art nowadays is just the same old rules as recognizing the fae in old tales.

“Count the fingers, count the knuckles, count the teeth, check the shadows…”

… and under NO circumstances should you make deals with their kind.

@erkhyan pitch: a story where it looks like a fantasy folktale about humans and the fey and the reader gradually realizes it's a far-future world and the "fey" are, like, ancient/autonomously evolving artificial constructs