Nostalgia for the painterly, unmistakably-AI look of early image generators
_FelixSimon_ · x · 2026-11-07
A user shares two images in the unmistakable style of early AI image generators (DALL·E 2 era) — thick painterly brushstrokes, soft focus, dreamlike compositions — saying they miss that aesthetic now that modern models chase photorealism. The post captures how the once-derided "looks like AI art" style has become a kind of visual nostalgia.
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