This looks and feels like AI slop

Which is impressive considering how many background details and consistent things are across the panels pretty much guaranteeing that it isn’t.

Literally the worker has an apple tattoo that gets eaten over the course of the comic.

The firt three panels are a disconnected mess that spans several distinctly unconnected locations despite seemingly being a single short encounter between two characters.
You’ve never had a walk and talk through a work site that had different rooms?
Not across an entire site in three simple sentences no…
Oh, so you have to have things be completely literal.

No i was being facetious to your obviously sarcastic comment.

You obviously don’t agree this has AI-vibes, fair enough we don’t have to be aligned.

You need a vibe check if you’re thinking this is AI. The level of detail and in-jokes scattered throughout are definitely something that AI couldn’t pull off right now. Look at the snake and the apple, it moves between frames eating the apple, that’s not something it’s going to effectively do.
To be fair, for me it looks like the author tried so hard to show that it’s not AI by doing many connected and irrelevant details, that it hurts the comic. Maybe it’s just a matter of preference

leftycartoons.com/about-barry-deutsch/

Check the sources… doesn’t seem like dude uses ai.

About Barry Deutsch

My name is Barry Deutsch, and I write and draw Ampersand, a political comic with a generally progressive sensibility. A new Ampersand comic appears in every issue of Dollars and Sense Magazine. I&#…

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