Pretty people get photographed/painted more, resulting in much of the training data being pretty people, thus pretty people get generated more frequently.
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falsem@kbin.social 11 months agoMy experience has been that they have a tendency to make overly attractive men too. Getting it to generate anyone average nevermind ugly or with deformities (eg scars) is really hard.
DdCno1@beehaw.org 11 months ago
anachronist@midwest.social 11 months ago
Part of that is just smoothness and symmetry which we consider to be attractive attributes but is also a consequence of the averaging that the algorithm is doing (which is why AI images all look various sorts of “melty”).
Lowbird@beehaw.org 11 months ago
It bothers me that they all look like they’re in their teens or 20s, when a male wizard would inevitbly be shown as anywhere from middle aged to Gandalf.
I bet it just always makes women young in every context.
Anyway most of them look like they’re from an old 3D Japanese RPG or CG anime. Round face with pointy chin, plastic-y smooth skin.
I’ll note that anime and Asian RPG characters often have a light skin tone (another can of worms there) that can cause foreign viewers to perceive them as white even while Japanese viewers perceive them as asian. Animation and similarly stylized art involves a level of abstraction and cultural interpretation that might not be there (at least not in exactly the same way) if we were talking about race (or gender, or whatever else) with regards to more realistic art.
jarfil@beehaw.org 11 months ago
It’s a problem with the “no uglies” negative prompt, and to which images th"ugly" was applied by humans tagging the training dataset.