A fascinating genre of AI-generated boomer art is crystalizing on Facebook before our very eyes. Ben Garrison is going to be put out of work. Another casualty of the AI revolution
Is it just me or is AI art getting worse with time
There’s too much AI art on the internet now and it’s getting fed into the models so now AI art is literally getting inbred
it doesnt help that this is being used by uncreative boomers to paint tasteless crap.
This is actually the biggest problem. It’s boomers coming up with the worst ideas of all time. It’s gotten a lot better at making things that could reasonably happen, but these boomers are just coming up with the worst possible images to generate, and because there’s nothing even remotely close to that in the data set, it has to hallucinate harder. You can make a picture of guys playing baseball pretty easily because there are lots of pictures of guys playing baseball. Harder to make giant bibles being moved by cops because cops never move anything on their cars, and there’s no such thing as a giant bible.
This looks like some SDXL checkpoint, maybe even the base version, so that’d be last year’s big hobbyist local model. A midrange graphics card from a few years ago can churn out several of those images a minute, and a high end current gen card could bring that down to around a second (even less for SDXL Lightning).
This is probably the result of a completely uncurated spambot that’s just trying to dump SEO shit into a prompt and post whatever comes out the other end. Like literally one single machine could be providing these images for dozens or hundreds of different spam bots because the local models make a local server that can be communicated with via an API by a GUI frontend or other applications.
Edit: checking popular SDXL checkpoints, I think it may be an older version of juggernaut XL, like the bot farm operator just grabbed the top ranked checkpoint from civitai a few months ago then just set up the bots for it and hasn’t bothered to grab a newer one or fix any issues - why bother, when the whole thing is some baffling scheme to grift ad views from what seem to be entirely other bots.
I just went and looked at the top rated SDXL checkpoints on civitai, and that’s at the very top of the list and has a similar sort of plastic sheen to it. But after posting that I thought about Stable Cascade, and that both has an even more pronounced sheen like that and similar text adherence to some of the images, but that would be a weird one because it’s more complicated to run and not particularly popular.
Someone else suggested it could be dalle, but I don’t know anything about the quality or prompt adherence of remote proprietary models so I can’t comment on that. The combination of them being strictly SFW and clearly entirely uncurated could point to an aggressively censored corporate model, especially if it was something with a free tier that bots could be querying themselves.
It looks better if the person writing the prompt has several goes at it, refines the idea, and picks the best one. But Shrimp Jesus is spreading so fast that the people(?) writing prompts are just giving it one go and posting whatever it throws out.
The lack of taste doesn’t help either.
I have a new theory: American Christians want to pretend that they have read the Bible, but no one can make it past, like, Leviticus. So instead, they just really double down on the first part about creationism, hating women, and wars of genocide committed by the chosen people that they did read and extrapolate that for the whole book.
I knew a Mormon girl growing up who did take it very seriously and had read the Book of Mormon, The Bible (KJV), The Doctrine & Covenants (by far the most interesting Mormon scripture as it is the revelations of Joseph Smith alongside Mormon history and up to his death. Actual ‘prophetic’ ramblings of an Uber-American weirdo conman) cover to cover several times.
She told me the hardest part by far was the Old Testament outside of Genesis and Exodus and a couple others because it was insanely convoluted and boring. Just mundane rules and boring lineages and that kind of thing.
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