Comment by ceejayoz

> So you trust a human artist's ability to draw to-scale more than AI?

Yes. There is a pretty good chance that someone drawing even a stick figure representation of the two to post “for reference” has at least some relevant information on the sizes. People don’t tend to draw giant extinct beavers for fun out of the blue.

AI slop, in this context, is the same as a child’s crayon drawing of a dragon. It may be cute. Pretty. It may make you proud. But it offers little scientific value for assessing the size of real dragons.

AI makes convincing looking art, but that’s worse, because people fall for it in ways unlikely with crayon. And it can be done fast.