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Comment by poly2it

11 hours ago

This filter seems to also change some architectural details and features, as well as degrade the quality of some materials in an unrealistic way.

That's the 'built by the lowest bidder' feature. Probably pretty realistic in a lot of places.

  • Huh, I wonder if they trained it by feeding it architectural renders and "what actually got built" photos...

    • It's probably just prompt based. Actual fine-tuning for these kind of use cases is getting less common than it used to be.

It's GenAI. It does something that's kind of like what you asked it to do, but it will skip some details or add other ones or whatever.

Dreary architectural pictures will be more likely to have electrical boxes, poor materials, etc, so when it moves the buildings from the latent space for cheery bright architectural renderings to dreary wet November architectural renderings, it will be more likely to add some of those details, because that's what's in its latent space.

Don't expect GenAI to be magic.

  • Yeah - same things I noticed with people enthusiastically using genAI for old photo coloring. Initially it looks awesome, until you realize it can even alter the human face in such a way, that it no longer looks like that person.

    My father was really happy with some old photos colored, until I pointed out he does not look like him. Strangely enough he wasnt bothered...

  • I have a suspicion that the author of this might have asked the model for those utility boxes.

It's not a filter, it's an image editing model