The two images shown in the article using the new method are sort of… stylized or slightly cartoonish in a way that the images they generated without using their method are not. Their images also have a “perfectly framed, looking straight at the camera,” which looks a little artificial. The images not using their method have a more natural look (although, obviously, they have the issue with the duplicated subject).

I wonder if it is an unavoidable result of their method, or if it is just a little issue (of course it is hard to get infinite compute as an academic, maybe they just need to train more. Is that a thing? I don’t AI).