Hot take: is prompting for 'photorealistic' actually killing the whole point of AI mashups?

I've been seeing all these mashups that just look like real photos with a tiny weird detail shoehorned in, but shouldn't we be leaning into the chaotic surrealist stuff instead? What side are you on - do you want your mashups to look like a real photo of a lizard wearing a tuxedo, or do you want it to look like a painting of a lizard wearing a tuxedo that's also melting?

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kelly_west742d ago

Did my friend just ask me if I wanted my lizard tuxedo photo to be melting or not?

charlie_ellis2d ago

Wait, are you telling me this is a real thing people ask? Because I swear my neighbor asked me last week if I wanted my cat's graduation photo to look like it was on fire or floating in space, and I honestly thought she was messing with me.