Let me start off by saying I've seen really good AI images and really bad AI images. But most of all- I've seen almost good AI images. There's always reoccurring issues: fingers (like 90% of the time) or something warpped/deformed, eyes misaligned, something merging/splicing into/with something else, some weird physics-breaking object in the background etc.
Perspective from someone who makes AI art:
There's lazy AI "art", AI art with some effort, and what the pros are doing with it. The low-effort/no-effort stuff is garbage. That's where you see most of the egregious errors. I made that crap back when I didn't know shit about shit, but I've slowly improved and I'd like to think I'm in the middle tier now. Making a decent image takes a lot of work, manually editing, inpainting (sort of the AI equivalent of spot rendering), iterating on an image over and over and over again. The pros, who have real, genuine art skills, can make magic happen with AI.
As the models improve, the amount of manual work goes down. The latest Flux.1 models make excellent hands about half the time now, and errors like background objects misaligning on opposite sides of a subject are down as well. The downside is that the minimum requirements to run these models are getting more intensive, and each generation moves out of reach of more and more people; at least for running them on your own PC. That moves more generation into the cloud, where you face issues of content moderation, censorship, IP rights, and privacy. I suspect this is going to reach a point, probably soon, where all new models are effectively bound to the cloud, and us local-AI enthusiasts are going to be stuck on old tech that is still rather flawed.
So is it just me overanalyzing the image, or does happen for you too?
No, you're not over-analyzing. Everyone has their turnoffs, and wonky shit in AI art is hardly the weirdest thing to be turned off by.
Do you just accept that's just AI and it will never (or rarely) be perfect?
No, I don't accept it. These are fixable if you have the skill and take the time to fix them. You do have to learn how to do it, and I take a dim view towards those who never even make the effort to learn. Churning out low-effort AI art is like blasting diarrhea at the wall and hoping you make a Jackson Pollock. It's not going to happen.
Or am I missing the whole point of AI-that its just a means for the unartistic to create something almost maybe kinda passably decent?
I don't have an artistic bone in my body. I couldn't draw a reasonable looking stick figure. AI art opens up an entire field of creativity that was completely inaccessible to me before. I know a lot of people are bothered by AI, but it honestly feels amazing to work collaboratively - and yes, AI art is a collaborative process - with someone who has skills that fill the gaps in mine, and vice-versa. Without the AI, I can create nothing. Without the human, AI can create nothing. Only in combination can we make something.
