Artist: dkj (locked)

Staff members involved: Swedistan Doge, Lafcadio, Rainbow Dash

The artist's commission information sheet was posted to a private staff channel on February 16th, with Swedistan Doge immediately remarking that the visual content of the gallery was highly suspicious.

Review of the gallery revealed several patterns held in common with traces of AI image generations, as well as extensive use of colored bases, primarily from Alanscampos, with Teranen, jackalope, KuganeTrash, and others providing a few more. In August 2020, they also submitted https://www.furaffinity.net/view/37669566/ as an original base, advertising a price of $5 for customizations.

From 2019-01-13 to 2024-02-09, the artist focused near-exclusively on selling customized bases, and later adoptables based on Alanscampos's bases. On 2020-10-10, they submitted "Lara on the Beach", an original piece. These kinds of original works remained far and few between until 2024-02-12, when the artist submitted "OC NICK (Sketch art)" with a description talking about disappearing for a long time and training new techniques for art. Immediately after this submission, they began posting more original bases and YCHs, continuing to occasionally auction customized Alanscampos bases until 2024-07-20.

Starting with OC NICK (Sketch art), every original work from this artist exhibited various traits consistent with AI traces, and it was clear that the transition from their 2020 art quality to their 2024 art quality was not well-proven. This was also accompanied by drastic changes in the artist's YCH pricing, going from a minimum of $5 USD in 2020 to highs including $250 in 2024.

As the new art was immediately suspicious on multiple fronts, changes in the artist's philosophy were evident, and entire years passed with few attempts at original art despite hundreds of completed bases/YCHs, those reviewing the case agreed on quickly deleting the affected posts and publishing a writeup explaining the decision.