Agree with GPT but with StableDiffusion you are only partially correct. Visit /r/StableDiffusion to see the stuff people are making. People share prompt, seed, model settings etc and you can reproduce the exact same thing.
I do agree that it's bad at following the prompt exactly. It will produce most of the things you mentioned in the prompt but not necessarily in the same fashion you asked for. I don't agree that produced images are mostly shitty, just visit that subreddit.
> I don't agree that produced images are mostly shitty, just visit that subreddit.
SD is definitely very good in the right hands, and it’s a little unfair to expect to be able to get instant good results without any skill. It’s honestly pretty crazy that we now have things like ChatGPT and SD – and people are already calling them crap because they don’t work perfectly and their productive use actually requires some skill!
But r/StableDiffusion, or any public gallery, is obviously one giant selection effect. 99.9% of attempts could be crap and the 0.1% would still be enough to fill a subreddit.
Sort by new and you will get the idea of crap that people post on a public forum. Default sorting only shows you the popular/better content.
To give you a general idea of what percentage can be good images: I recently made a lots of wallpapers to cycle through daily using SD. I found a good prompt, a good model, and let it generate bunch of images continuously for few hours.
None of the images were shitty (they were all random seeds), only images I discarded had artifacts I didn't like or couldn't keep my eyes away from. With SD you can't just expect to give a prompt "beautiful landscape" and expect it to give you a beautiful landscape. It won't. You shall get shitty images and might get a few pleasing ones. You must tune your prompt to get good results.
I do agree that it's bad at following the prompt exactly. It will produce most of the things you mentioned in the prompt but not necessarily in the same fashion you asked for. I don't agree that produced images are mostly shitty, just visit that subreddit.