Extreme detail in images, once a quality signal, now smells like AI slop
jachiam0 · x · 2026-10-05
An observant note on shifting aesthetics: extreme detail in a graphic used to signal quality and effort, but today it reads as an aesthetic tell for AI slop — the more meticulously detailed an image looks, the more likely viewers suspect it was machine-generated.
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