Manovich pointed out that the type of people who gravitate toward these programs heavily shape what gets produced through their personal taste and preferences. Midjourney’s Discord, for example: “Very dominated by male users.” That tracks with how King described what they’ve seen coming out of Midjourney: “Loads of depictions of women with blank expressions on their faces, where they look kind of sexy.
Is every single piece of AI art inherently hokey or boring? No. But it is striking that we’ve developed these startlingly powerful tools for conjuring visual representations of our wildest dreams and we’re producing male geishas and space princesses. It can feel like watching people play “Chopsticks” over and over on a Steinway Model D grand piano. There are already stereotypes forming about what AI art looks like; an artist was recently banned from a Reddit forum because their work simply.
Probably the dataset used to train it literally steals from artwork from the 1970s artists, just a hunch