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As an artist myself, when it comes to generated images, it's weird and uncanny with the mistakes it makes.
It's not the kinds of things a below average artist gets wrong, image gen gets things wrong in very specific ways. It aims for perfection on everything, but unlike a human, the algorithm has no understanding of what it's trying to make.
If a below average artist makes mistakes, I still have a pretty good idea what they're going for, because a human working on art has some real world understanding that every other human has, a big one being object persistence.
No matter how rudimentary one is at art, a human will always understand that things in the background are independent of things in the middle and foreground. AI's obsession with making everything symmetric and balanced always results in the most repulsive uncanny valley looking slop. About the only thing it comes close to getting is abstract patterns but anyone can do the same thing with 25 year old software.
Yeah, the mistakes it makes are often different, but it makes mistakes in details just like a below average artist. The most common mistakes I see in real artists are things like inconsistent lighting, proportions, perspective, etc, and the AI can usually do those things alright, but it struggles with other details, like consistent anatomy, shapes, materials, etc.
It’s similar in code. Like, a human being isn’t going to add a dependency that doesn’t exist, but that’s the kind of mistake an AI will make all the time. Some mistakes, like removing a function call it’s not supposed to to fix a failing test case, are mistakes a human would make, just like humans make anatomical mistakes in art all the time too.
So it’s not that the AI makes the exact same mistakes a below average human makes, but more about how often it makes mistakes, just like a below average human does.
My favourite clue for degenerative AI "art" is something occluded by something else. Like, say, a pipe blocked partially by a ... tree. Whatever.
Nine times out of ten the pipe doesn't come out the other side, or comes out the other side offset from the entrance point, or comes out the other side completely different, or ...