Engineer kache attributes the visual difference to artistic coherence.
@1a3orn its coherent
It's interesting to me to try to really understand why this art (and other art!) still looks much better than current AI images.
I can *tell* it looks much better, but putting it into words is hard for me, I have no skill at it. Let me try.
Users criticize current AI images as stereotyped, vague, cluttered with greebles, and overall trash compared to traditional art's stronger scene composition and use of empty space.
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I probably did a shitty job though describing this though.
AI vision is still kinda trash, huh.
(Also, hilariously, if I show Claude Fable this image, the CoT correctly hypothesizes that is a reference to Cesare Mariani's "The Mask Seller," but somehow doesn't realize that it was actually correct, then it confuses this image with totally separate art of Aura on Artstation.)
Finally this does a good job with big empty spots where nothing is happening, which ofc are a good feature.
While AI art tends to have greebles everywhere, it has to punch you in the eyeballs in each spot.
By contrast, a lot of AI images involves stereotyped positions -- it doesn't feel like it's "of a scene." Your eyes skip over the forms, like your eyes skip over AI slop writing.
(It also matters that it's a funny scene.)
I big part of it is composition, surely. There are three figures, each in a non-stereotyped position. Each person is doing something intelligible. You can imagine the past few seconds of history, play the scene forward a few seconds.
The style is one that AIs still don't do by default, although you could probably get MJ or whatever to give you this kind of flat style.
I think style matters less than the composition, although it's still noticeable.
There's also like -- the reference to particular in-jokes, the chinless Frieren. The lack of continual learning for the most current memes is characteristic of AI.
Even the latest OAI image models that can do graphic-novel compositions on a page feel... drifty, vague, dirty, compared to this.
Like this is very clear about what is happening, in a way AI stuff doesn't seem to be.
@1a3orn I thinks it's just much more detail. And more clarity.
