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

67 points arduinomancer | 1 comments | 16 Aug 24 02:20 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

I’ve noticed a lot of the time you can tell an image is AI generated because it has a shiny/glossy lighting look to it.

Has anyone figured out why this is the case?

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txnf ◴[16 Aug 24 03:25 UTC] No.41262876[source]▶
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

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kingkongjaffa ◴[16 Aug 24 03:36 UTC] No.41262936[source]▶
> 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?

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1. txnf ◴[17 Aug 24 20:29 UTC] No.41277710[source]▶
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.