Most AI-generated images with photorealistic and 3D elements have obvious defects, but I’m curious if anyone’s done some analysis on the flat cartoon-style AI images. Cartoons, comics, and 2D artwork usually aren’t meant to be photorealistic, but I can tell something is off at a glance. What exactly is it?
Generative LLM and so on is just pattern recognition and generation. It may do this several levels deep, but it doesn’t break free of this fundamental limitation.
You are noticing that it is just doing patterns and noticing them yourself. Lines flow a bit oddly. Real objects have recognizable textures but are missing parts of the coherent whole. Comic panels that would be copy + paste for an artist are actually “redrawn” by the generative algorithms and that feels odd. Context changes oddly - e.g. the backgrounds.
It’s mostly just parlor tricks. Entertaining but rarely actually that useful.