[sycamoretrees]

This simply doesn’t look like the IKEA style.

The prompt may not be explicit enough about it looking like IKEA.

This looks like something from the 70s. Which makes sense, since Midjourney likely assumes a connection between bomb/fallout shelters and the Cold War.

[haffi112]

Looks like mode collapse in Midjourney. It is less capable of dealing with instructions now likely to increase the chance of generating aesthetically pleasing output.

[rediguanayum]

I think this looks awesome and captures the whole IKEA vibe very well.

[bleep_bloop]

The furniture itself is 60's-70's American decor, the colours are Wes Anderson and the camera angle and room layouts are IKEA catalogue. Pretty interesting output and I actually dig the vibe even if it's not really that close to any real life IKEA furniture design.

[ethbr0]

One of my favorite things about generative art is digging into what it got right and what it got wrong.

So far, the public ones are often like a first-year student's impression of X -- it nails some aspects (symmetry, color palette, or framing), but others completely elude it (object-object relativity like "zippers go on clothes, not skin" or intentionality behind object choice).

What's fascinating now is which things are picked up on (e.g. 70s) and which are ignored (e.g. specific IKEA furniture design style).

And then how that's reinterpreted by viewers -- "Looks great!" vs "Misses A & B!"

Which to me makes the whole system an autoecoder for ignorant people (in the not-knowing, not pejorative sense).

If Midjourney can create an image that will be attractive to people who don't know furniture design, and 90% of people don't know furniture design, it works for meme purposes.