‘Repetition’ is certainly a drawback to the ChatGPT style: we have lost em dashes and tricolons for a generation. But it can’t in its own right explain the reaction to the SD image, because… ‘German Expressionist linocut’ just doesn’t describe a default, or even a common, output style of any image generative model ever. (That’s part of why I like to use ‘linocut’ as a keyword, and for better or worse, people who might reach for ‘German Expressionist’ these days typically reach for Corporate Memphis instead.)
It could however be a kneejerk reaction: “oh no, this is a generated image, therefore it is exhaustingly overused and boring [even if it isn’t actually]”.
‘Repetition’ is certainly a drawback to the ChatGPT style: we have lost em dashes and tricolons for a generation. But it can’t in its own right explain the reaction to the SD image, because… ‘German Expressionist linocut’ just doesn’t describe a default, or even a common, output style of any image generative model ever. (That’s part of why I like to use ‘linocut’ as a keyword, and for better or worse, people who might reach for ‘German Expressionist’ these days typically reach for Corporate Memphis instead.)
It could however be a kneejerk reaction: “oh no, this is a generated image, therefore it is exhaustingly overused and boring [even if it isn’t actually]”.