Most AI-generated images with photorealistic and 3D elements have obvious defects, but I’m curious if anyone’s done some analysis on the flat cartoon-style AI images. Cartoons, comics, and 2D artwork usually aren’t meant to be photorealistic, but I can tell something is off at a glance. What exactly is it?
For me at least it’s that the perspective is off. When someone is learning to draw or is just a shitty artist and the perspective isn’t very good you can immediately identify it. It looks like someone drew “front” eyes on the side of the head or something like that. When AI makes an image, the perspective is off, just in a different ways. The eye doesn’t look like a “front” eye or a “side” eye or a “top” eye. It looks like all of them and none of them. It makes the entire thing unsettling.