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Saty Chary's avatar

Hi Gary, the errors seem egregious, partly because, when the imagery, text, video... seem correct to us, we tacitly assume they 'knew' what to generate.

But the more bland reality is, they have zero clue about anything at all, even when they compute values that turn out correct (to us).

Stochastic monkeys pounding on loaded keyboards, throwing paint on loaded canvases - with zero understanding of what results...

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Anthony V.'s avatar

"The painting isn’t really particularly in the style of Michelangelo."

We can say something stronger than that - it looks like a creepy digital image, not a painting, and absolutely nothing like Michelangelo. Here is what a painting by Michelangelo looks like: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/courses-images-archive-read-only/wp-content/uploads/sites/1122/2016/08/16190403/sibyls.jpg

These AI images always look creepy, and it is not just the problems of anatomy and physical space that you have pointed out. An art historian would be able to explain better than me. I think some factors are the excessive detail, unnatural lighting, and the way the textures (skin, hair, fabric, etc.) all look wrong.

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