[tomxor]

Isn't this mainly an issue of garbage in garbage out?

Most of the world's recorded images are not average or representative. People take and share images very selectively. As far as the model is concerned, what it produced probably is representative (representative of the training data).

On the other hand, if a generative model was trained exclusively on new and unfiltered images of a journey through the sights of a country - not a tourist's sights - but non-selective sights, a journey no human would bother taking. Not only would it have a fighting chance of generating something beyond a stereotype for the given prompts, but we might also learn something from it.