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Prompt Engineering can help a lot but yes, you're basically right: People are generating many, many images and sharing only the best ones with the fewest artifacts.

For simple prompts with little additional guidance, all the diffusion image generators I've seen/used will produce output about like what the author linked most of the time. There are always a few gems, and honing in via prompt engineering helps immensely.

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I disagree, with proper promptcrafting you can expect far far better results than the one in the op, before any cherry picking. (see my comment sibling to yours)

With Dalle-2 I get a satisfying result in >50% of attempts and I'm a beginner.

With Midjourney the result almost always looks great, but often misses some part of what I wanted. I'd say Stable Diffusion is similar. The results are seldom crap, but it's difficult to bend it to produce unusual situations. And in SD it's difficult to keep the entire objects in the frame, but that's a different problem.

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