The real reason fantasy and sci fi book covers painted by human artists are superior to their AI-generated counterparts is that when the AI gets everything wrong it’s almost always a trivial exercise to figure out what prompt it was given and how it free-associated its way to the result, but a human artist will hit you with an elaborately laid out black-velvet rendering of a scene which absolutely does not happen in the book, populated by people who in spite of their distinctive and wildly eccentric designs are not identifiable as any specific character, and the challenge of puzzling out what the fuck they thought they were painting is often more interesting than the actual book.
The book: Paint-by-numbers Tolkienesque fantasy.
The cover artist: Fuck you, here’s a cowboy on a spaceship.
Me: This is the happiest day of my life.
The cover art spec: A medieval warrior with a magic sword fights orcs in some ancient ruins.
The art-generating AI: I drew a medieval warrior with a magic sword fighting orcs in some ancient ruins.
The human artist: I drew a dude wearing a Viking-themed BDSM harness wielding a lightsabre against a horde of jacked lion-men amid the wreckage of a crashed alien starship under the light of a triple sun. Also, one of the lion-men is being eaten by a pterodactyl. I don’t remember why.
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