Hit 100 AI generated images before I realized something was off

I was bragging to a friend about how I churned out 100 images using Midjourney for a client project last week. But then I stopped and actually looked at all of them side by side. Every single person had the same generic smile and the backgrounds looked like plastic. I realized I was just hitting generate over and over without checking quality. Has anyone else caught themselves valuing quantity over quality with these tools?

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walker.alex2d ago

Oh man, the plastic look is real. I noticed that with my first batch too, all the faces have this weird smoothness like they're mannequins. You gotta zoom in on the hands and eyes, that's where it falls apart every time. The hands are always melted or have six fingers or something. Pro tip though, feeding it a reference image helps a ton with the backgrounds looking less fake. But yeah, getting 100 bad images fast isn't really a flex when you step back and look at them.

fiona_reed22h agoMost Upvoted

The "hands are always melted" bit got me because I swear my first generation of AI art looked like everyone was wearing mittens. I started telling myself it was abstract expressionism or something, just to cope. But yeah, the plastic mannequin thing is a real bummer, especially when you're trying to make something that looks like a real person. Have you tried messing with the prompt style terms like "cineastic" or "grain" to make it less polished?