Shoutout to the guy who called my AI art 'soulless' at a Denver meetup

Mary Grant · 2026-04-03T23:30:04.876937+00:00

He said my images looked like a 'perfectly tuned algorithm' instead of something a person made, which stung. I started adding random brush strokes and color shifts to my prompts to break the patterns. Does anyone else deliberately make their AI outputs less perfect?

skylerc866mo ago

That guy had a point though. A perfectly tuned algorithm is exactly what it is, and adding random noise doesn't change that core fact.

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kevin_bailey6mo ago

Remember when people said digital photos looked too clean compared to film? Same energy. You can't win sometimes.

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daniel5114mo ago

Started leaving little artifacts and weird lighting in mine on purpose. Makes it feel more like something a person actually sat down and made, not just a machine spitting out polish.

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