To Likeness or Not to Likeness

As someone who has been training AI image models for quite some time, I have been noticing a pattern in the real world, not in the models. Expectations for what counts as a "real" image are perhaps changing, or at least a high level of realism is no longer expected, and that seems to be acceptable. This is interesting to observe because, with this new mindset, we are witnessing the emergence of a…