I have to ask if we're looking at AI art for the story art here? It's... very much counter to my taste either way.
If you don't like it, why is does it matter how is was created?
We have in the past, and will in the future, use AI-generated spot illustrations for stories if we weren't able to get art produced a more traditional way in time for publication.
I'd rather not assume that something I'm seeing is AI simply because I don't like the way it looks. I try to avoid having anything to do with GenAI whenever possible.



