[webmaven]

> Even with photo or video AIs, there is no "new" content, just rehashed old content which is a subset of the trained data (why AI-generated photos often have this kind of "smooth" look to them).

You're misattributing the source of that quality. It actually comes from the "aesthetic" human preference fine tuning, because the average person finds "smooth" images more appealing. Prior to that fine-tuning, the models don't have this bias, or no more of it than is in the training data, anyway.

Personally, I find the aesthetic fine-tuning quite annoying (and it has generally been getting worse with each new version of these models). If I prompt for a painting in Picasso's style, I really don't want a "prettier" version of that style that smooths out the textures and shapes to make them more pleasing to the eye.