I find representations of text in AI generated images equal parts fascinating and incredibly fucking creepy. It must be some sort of uncanny valley effect that it has on me.
It's what I imagine text in dreams actually looks like.
It gives me the feeling of seeing an upside-down alternate dimension.
I tried this for the happy-birthday example and it was an improvement but still gave bad text - “hhappy” and others. The best was an artistically nonsensical orange box that managed to spell “happy” correctly but otherwise didn’t fit the image.
Interesting, seems to have an effect on the faces in the few images I tried.