Ask HN: Why are AI generated images so shiny/glossy?

there is an "aesthetics" model

https://github.com/LAION-AI/laion-datasets/blob/main/laion-a...

obviously, it reflects the mass preference for glosslop

secondarily it is likely due to a desire to ensure that ai images have a distinct look

> secondarily it is likely due to a desire to ensure that ai images have a distinct look

This does not make sense and seems like conjecture, do you have a source?

Once the herd starts stampeding in one direction, we get runaway processes - https://www.racked.com/2017/2/1/14441128/local-news-anchor-i...

> glosslop

What a marvelous word. Yoink!

It's industry standard procedure to tune your model to output a consistent distinct style, to prevent malicious actors from abusing it and presenting fabricated (but very convincing) images as real.

Credible source?

Your link has nothing to do with genAI

there is no source it is pure conjecture, but I would say that there are many many fine tunes available of various image generation models so it is clearly possible to make many styles. thus it must be a conscious choice on the part of a API provider to render by default to a distinct style. there are many plausible reasons they would want to do this. Surely, but I don't have actual evidence from the internal management processes of these organizations that they were doing this for one reason or another.