I grabbed an old Obon festival flyer from 2014 and told chatgtp to:
"look at this image and give me variants in the style of classical japanese artists and graphics designers (be sure to include hokusai and Ikko Tanaka). be sure to tell me about each style. upscale and include the original with some designer words that are plausible"
at least two of these don't look like AI to me and are perhaps better than the original. but a non-designer is likely to pick the more busy ones.
I would say most of these look pretty good but most of them miss the important information except maybe 5.
3 has most of the information but some of it is hard to see.
I would say this is a pretty good way to showcase what is wrong with image generation in AI in general: impressive visually but missing the basics (here complete and readable information).
I have been playing around with Google flow generating scenes with animals characters and the fur always look incredible. Same goes for the facial expressions but the generation is comically bad in scene continuity, even in the same scene. It's not uncommon for characters to lose/acquire features or objects from one moment to another (like losing glasses, but they reappear a few seconds later).
For a lack of a better term, I would call this the "golden turd" effect.
So much this. It was a great piece of software that was once super useful to me... 'twas circa 2010. I was a wee project manager at a small marketing + design agency in Goa---emailing "big" files (via relatively anaemic broadband) was our bread and butter; raw images, multimedia, Adobe, Corel, MS Office stuff.
One day, I tried to demo Groove in our weekly company-wide morning show-and-tells.
I had a few of our "usual suspect" files synced between my laptop, and another computer upstairs. And then I tried to show how I was making edits on one computer, then (dramatically) running up to the other one, and doing something else, or undoing / overwriting the previous edit.
The magical-to-me seamless, and fast updates didn't make much of an impression on the crowd. Perhaps all the huffing and puffing was not the best look while trying to sell something that was supposed to make everyone's life easier :,)
Anyway, I kept using it and was so hopping mad when it got "embraced, absorbed, and extinguished". Software that "just works" and works really well is such a rare thing.
Berkshire HQ has exactly 27 people. so I think those comments about culture are spot on. but the issue of "what would walt/steve/warren do?" will eventually bite you in the ass.
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