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When I can't tell I just can't tell, but does this overly smooth not turn off regular people? Like it's so disgustingly uncanny that it would turn me off my fries (and I love fries)
For aesthetic reasons, I deeply dislike the style. It's indeed uncanny, and must be an average of a few other dominant art styles, yet doesn't directly resemble anything else. Even the exact font-face that tends to get used is hard to pin down.
And that's when I realized that I'm thankful that this current crop of models generates slop that looks like this. It has unintentionally hatched a style that is immediately recognizable as AI generated.
Font-face of my God you nailed it. That's it.
But yeah, like you said at least it makes no effort slop recognisable. I can imagine future gen ai image providers randomising the style to throw people off the scent. Essentially to lie more effectively, eroding the signs of quality and care formed over millennia, so that eventually you can't actually tell if any of the art you see is thoughtful or thoughtless.
Sometimes I think about how many people in my school year growing up were complete fucking morons, and remember that they didn't stop existing after graduation.
It's kinda like the new Corporate Memphis