Here's a curious observation:
The prompter of the AI generated image has over 20k followers on his account, yet his prompt only received 266 likes AND the post view count correlates almost entirely from people having first interacted with the far more popular critical response whom later clicked on the dudes AI slop.

^Prompter

^AI slop post

^Response

Hardly anyone is actually agreeing or defending PJ Ace in either post which heavily suggests his account is being artificially boosted through bot follows because he can't handle the idea of what he offers not actually being remotely popular. Frankly I wouldn't be surprised if this is the case also for 98% of the AI "artist" accounts.

This is what investigation journalism should be like.