Grok Imagine 2 Criticized for Degraded Quality, Distillation Blamed for Amplifying AI Artifacts
flowersslop · x · 2026-08-09
The author points out that xAI's image generation model, Grok Imagine 2, performs poorly, producing results that look worse and noisier than ChatGPT. He analyzes that this is because the model relies on distillation rather than real images during training, causing it to learn AI quirks and artifacts faster, thereby losing realism and taste.
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