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I've spent more time than I'd like to admit with Dall-E, Midjourney and SD and I disagree with your sentiment. Sure, you can create a bunch of weird creepy shit, but by no means are the overwhelming majority of images deeply disturbing, as you put it.

Just scroll through https://lexica.art/ which catalogs 10M+ StableDiffusion images, most aren't even close to being disturbing and are in fact aesthetically quite pleasing.

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They're very impressive and while they all look great at a quick glance I still find most of them disturbing when I look closely. https://lexica.art/?prompt=ec869dfc-b31e-4310-84bd-fab9d1c9e... is a good example, where it looks ok at first but you realize that the limbs are freakish and mutated most of the time. For many look at the eyes and teeth!

Those are selected images though, so not representative.

You get 4-9 images at a time and it takes literally 2 seconds to look and decide which to save. Saying it's "unusable" because you CAN get bad images is missing out..

"representative" is not the same concept as "unusable", so you should not put quotes around that text.

It's like going to the grocery, seeing a bin of beautiful apples and saying "every apple on the tree is beautiful". You can't draw that conclusion because those apples aren't representative of all apples because they went through a filtering process. In this case some one choosing to sell them. Upthread, some one choosing to share them.

The images up thread were scraped, not cherry picked. So it's more like walking through an apple orchard.

I think my primary point, "no one was addressing usability just statistical power" still holds, but I concede your point.

Fun fact, apples grown for market get some level of sun shading to keep them pretty. Too much sun damages their skin and can give them that sort of leathery look. Which now that I think about it is a filter itself, hardly germane anymore though.

They are scraped from Discord, not cherry picked, so very much representative.

If they were scraped from Discord where others posted them, then they are scraped from a filtered source which contains only cherrypicked pictures that people chose to post, the ones they found interesting and good - it would be representative if and only if it had sampled also the pictures they generated but did not post.

They're scraped from the Stable Diffusion bot which generated them. People didn't post the images themselves, so they're not cherry picked.

Cool!

Interesting so I plugged in for prompts from “Captain Kirk”, and none of the images look much like William Shatner. More like a cross of an old Chris Pine with a tiny bit of Shatner thrown in..

https://lexica.art/?q=Captain+Kirk

Weird stuff

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