Cartoony fonts, way too much text everywhere, no visual higherarchy, colored rounded boxes, why does it all have seemingly one style rather than having multiple like you see in other ai mediums?

I hate generative ai btw I was just wondering

  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Generative AI tools are by definition averaging machines. They take lots of data and give an average output based on input.

    Not all training data is as valuable as others. The most valuable are distinct and highly associated with a certain tag or description. So a picture that is just a dog with over exaggerated dog features is better training data than a whole landscape with tons of stuff including a dog. This makes cartoonish stuff a better fit for training data.

    Similarly, people using these tools tend to be less detail oriented and just want something that has an obvious, center stage, flat message. They want something fast and cheap so far less thought goes into it than traditional art.

    Given these two, you end up with a huge bias towards the bland cartoonish style.

    Beyond that, there is also the fact that as time goes on, generated images find their way into training data, so it keeps getting more closer to that bland style.

    Seriously, I feel like the first generation of stable diffusion models were superior to what we have now.