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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9312934" data-attributes="member: 18">But my point is what are you seeing - are you seeing every image it generates based on a prompt, or are you seeing a human-created highlights reel of the very best it creates?Because if you're looking literally anywhere on the internet that I'm aware of, you're seeing a human-curated highlights reel. You're seeing the "best of" - and even then, there's often extreme same-y-ness and the sort of anti-art weirdnesses of hyper-detail on images where it makes no sense (indeed often makes them worse and less striking), or multiple conflicting styles of shading (and that's ignoring frequent shading errors, because those at least are getting rarer). As such it's still relative easy to recognise and rather unaesthetic in most cases - in part because many of those providing the curated images have fairly limited judgement and taste re: aesthetics, which I think has been encouraging AI to kind of "stay bad".But if you keep rolling the die, as it were, for long enough, sooner or later you often get something just about passable (there are some prompts which I've tried, which frankly seemed obvious and matched a lot of existing images, which never produced anything not drivel - specificity is a real problem for current AI art - the more general, average, generic you want the image, the easier of a time it'll have, and the less confused it'll get - I recently found two different AIs didn't know what a porkpie hat was, despite there being countless images of them on the internet, just instead putting a wide variety of other hats popular in the past on the character- particular fedoras - and, bizarrely, flat caps, which I suspect is an artefact of the TV series Peaky Blinders existing).Yeah this is the sort of thing AI has been genuinely useful for for quite a while - longer than it's been in the headlines - giving summaries and collecting information. It's not perfect at it and it sometimes loses its mind, but it is pretty good at it. If you don't want it to really try and be original, just to get stuff together, it's pretty efficient at it.</blockquote>

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