[bredren]

> Text-to-image diffusion models can create stunning images from natural language descriptions that rival the work of professional artists and photographers.

I’m all for the continued advance of diffusion models.

If this paper offered evidence of quantitative and qualities measurement techniques for determining human preference for art or photos based on a prompt, I’d get it the phrasing.

But having the first sentence essentially spurn professional creatives seems to unnecessarily fan the flames.

AI image generation does bother some creatives, and there are real reasons for this given the many models that have been trained using long practiced work.

Keep up with the science, but don’t forget the tact!

[MattRix]

You’re reading something into the text that just isn’t there. “Rival” means it’s good enough to be competitive, it doesn’t mean it’s better. The statement is hardly surprising or controversial. It’s fairly obvious to anyone who has looked at the output of these kinds of models.