Thanks for the thorough analysis. I’ve played around with stable diffusion on my personal pc as well as Dall-e. I did think that the faces seemed a little smoothed over on the playfield and cabinet art. It’s interesting that someone on pinside had said it seemed like photoshop mashup. However, when the making of video came out, I gave them the benefit of the doubt when they claimed it was all hand drawn.
The problem though is now that you’ve provided evidence, it’s impossible to un-see it.
The Ron photo is so damning. It is definitely an AI characteristic to reinterpret features incorrectly like the logo on his shirt becoming part of the arm strap. A real artist would never do that. The logo would either be redone to be more readable or removed altogether!