I find that I can tell when art lacks the sense of purposiveness but also inconsistency that comes from a being with limited attention and focus capabilities, but also a coherent sense of "concepts" (as opposed to massive statistical maps of a given subject), making art?
Like, a human brain has very different strengths and weaknesses from a computer β regardless of neurotype! β and those really do shine through in the art we make.
Something like Stable Diffusion understands what features correlate with "large furry dad" "wolf" "in the style of Hirohiko Araki" "HDR" "eating ice cream seductively" "on a vaporetto in Venice" "sunny day", but it just isn't built to have the same working knowledge of lighting, anatomy, architecture, weather, or why people like certain art styles that guides a human.
So it produces something that's pretty convincing β but it does it very differently. It just throws monumental amounts of processing power over a relatively short period of time at a titanic statistical model, and by mathematically teasing details out, ends up producing that result.
Meanwhile, a human brain has nowhere near the same breadth of images analysed, let alone in the same degree of detail, and is nowhere near as fast at applying it, but we've got a shortcut: selective attention, combined with having a broader ("general", one might say!) understanding of how all these concepts fit together in a real-world context.
We know what physical features of a big, burly wolf guy are important in this picture. We know how muscle squishing against muscle or fat against fat works, instead of just how it looks in billions of pictures. We know what aspects of Araki's style are important when applied to a huge guy. If we want "high dynamic range", we have better ways of achieving that than what an AI might assume, which is imitating older HDR cameras. We know exactly how to make someone with a canine mouth eating ice cream look as fucky as possible. So on.
So, we allocate the attention we can pay to the important bits. The result might not look as skilled, but out of a need to do things economically, we put our attention where it counts.
