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When witnessing a huge leap forward in human technological achievement, doesn't it feel a little strange to respond with "looks like crap"?

Even on your own terms, you're engaging in hyperbole. I've looked though thousands of these images and the harshest I can come up with is "assuming the result isn't obviously broken (i.e. some generated anatomy) then the results are sometimes a little bit uncanny or 'off'")

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It seems like AI image generation is close, but still slightly "off" as you say. To me it remains to be seen whether that's actually a huge achievement, or whether there's more work to be done to achieve that last 10% than has been done so far. The poster you're replying to used gaming as an example, and you only have to look there to see how graphical improvements in the last 10 years have diminishing returns versus earlier improvements.

I could be wrong but this seems like an area where our progress will look like an S-curve. Getting that last 10% could be the real achievement.

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