• NotSteve_@piefed.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    28
    ·
    3 days ago

    AI has been better than this for quite some time now. I honestly miss this era of AI-generated images though. It was always immediately noticeably AI but created some absolutely vile Cronenberg-esque abominations that I’d consider a genuine art genre on its own. Now we just get realistic but slightly uncanny slop

    • fonix232@fedia.io
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      3 days ago

      The absurdist/Dadaist era of AI was peak.

      This current super-realism phase is just creepy because there’s still a very tangible factor of uncanny valley in most pictures, but it’s getting harder to tell precisely where that factor comes from…

    • VitoRobles@lemmy.today
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      3 days ago

      I came to say that too! It was body horror and glorious. 4 arms in the wrong place? Eyes in funny places.

      • GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        3 days ago

        There was an utterly surreal burger commercial someone prompted that I just loved. It wasn’t really good, but it was a lot.

    • da_cow (she/her)@feddit.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      3 days ago

      Scrolled through my gallery some time ago and found some of those early AI images from 2023 or so. Its insane how much has changed in 3 years.