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Is it just me or is everyone who absolutely loves AI just painfully below average?

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Is it just me or is everyone who absolutely loves AI just painfully below average? - Lemmy.ca

Like, every AI generated thing I’ve seen, when viewed from the eyes of someone who actually knows what they’re doing, is at best below average. Maybe some things aren’t quite as bad as the general “AI slop”, but of the things I’m actually experienced in (code and art), I just see so many amateur mistakes in everything AI. Regarding art, AI can make really visually appealing things, but it gets the details wrong. That’s something that a below average artist does. And regarding code, it’s the same thing. Overall, it has the appearance of decent code, but it gets the details wrong, just like a below average dev. (Probably about the level of a high school senior or college freshman.) I’m not super experienced at writing, but I can also tell that it’s not very good at that. The stories it writes just aren’t compelling, but I’m not experienced enough to tell you why. And the same with music. It’s just below average, but I couldn’t tell you why. I’m not trying to sound elitist by saying this, but I’ve noticed people who aren’t very good at these things tend to praise how good the AI is. So, is it just me, or are the big fans of AI just below average at whatever the AI is doing?

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Tattorack 2d ago

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.

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hperrin

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.