[GaggiX]

The style becoming identifiable and stale has mostly to do with CFG and almost nothing with the dataset, the heavy use of CFG by most models trades diversity with coherency. You don't need a costant intake of new images and styles, it's like saying that an image created two years ago is stale because it doesn't follow a new style or something.

Also Pixtral is not a text-to-image model.

[p0rkbelly]

There is the problem of literal style though. The aesthetics of say clothes do evolve overtime, not year to year big changes, but every 3-5? Sure. Just laughing at the thought of the model where any image generated is say stuck in 1990s grunge attire.

[esafak]

CFG for Classifier-Free Guidance?

[GaggiX]

Exactly, https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.12598

Jonathan Ho, one of the authors of the CFG paper, now works for Ideogram, and Ideogram 2 is one of the very few models (or perhaps the only one) where I don't see the artifacts caused by the CFG, maybe he has achieved a breakthrough.