i feel that way about everything that has been showcased as state of the art AI
I guess the reason this particular example does not work is that a descriptive prompt is missing and / or functionality like inpaint is not available in the process. You can easily fix most of (all?) the artifacts using inpaint.
Stable Diffusion is amazing, but I've never seen it reliably generate realistic hands. The examples in the ControlNet repo show a chef in the kitchen with 6 fingers.
That being said, why are we only talking about stable diffusion. What about openai whisper? I have never used a better speech to text software and it is multilingual.