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After quick search - it looks to be ml-generated (I refuse to call slightly advance math algorithm an AI). From reddit:

I believe it is AI to mimic the style of Rien Poortvliet from the book Gnomes (1977, Wil Huygen)

The earliest uses of this image I can find are 2023, and only as a meme

But if you want real-human art of gnomes, that book is for you!

The book in question:

Image Another book from other comment: Image

Here same meme, but in higher quality. Image

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okwhateverdude@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Amazing, thank you!

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aaa999@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
a ton of wizardcore and frogwave memes are ai and it seems everyone just agrees to ignore it

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- gnufuu@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Is !wizards@lemmy.world an exception or am I fooling myself?
  
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  - aaa999@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    listen i refuse to do work but i scrolled that group for a bit and i suspect the following images
    
    lemmy.world/post/46052608 vger.to/lemmy.world/post/49193492 vger.to/lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/70698177 vger.to/lemmy.world/post/48031655
    
    i will not investigate further because i am on a phone and apps hate links just putting those here was awful
    
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