Yep it’s missing intent, just like machine translation. There somehow seems to be less information than there is in the input. I think more people will start to notice it as time goes by.
> There somehow seems to be less information than there is in the input.
This captures my thoughts very well. That's why these images get old very quickly - you can basically imagine the same thing in your mind. There's no real whimsy, surprise or creativity there. For now at least.
yeah one thing I think of is when an artist 'creates' something, its coming from their brain, like expressing what they feel. When AI generates the Art, even though there is a human curator, the lines and shapes the AI picks out is all random/arbitrary/no-emotion (even though it draws upon a huge dataset of lines/strokes/styles to form). It's "noise" art. The noise is just cleaned up to resemble real things.
They are very clean looking, it could be an effect of SD's compression to be so small.
MidJourney's production model is good about dirtying things up, you could use it as a post processor. I think its default style of turning everything into fine art-cyberpunk-movie matte painting gets old though.
I've gotten some good atmospheric photorealism results out of DALLE, but currently trying to get outpainting to work to extend them and it's tricky.
I have seen some very impressive pictures but nothing that seems to "emote"