see are the result of the AI user generating multiple image options - often dozens if not hundreds of AI images - and selecting the best. You don't know how many of the AI images produced to get to that good one were instantly recognizable as AI.
I think most AI image generators spit out four options at a time, so every single AI image online has a trail of unseen discarded images behind it. Every one of those discarded images a waste of electricity and water. I really can't think of good, ethical reasons to generate AI images. They're fake creativity using unethical tools trained illegally on stolen intellectual property.
Basically, almost everything you'll encounter online that's posted as an example of "how good AI is now" has been chosen just as selectively. There's almost always a long trail of complete or partial failures behind every AI success. And if you look at that trail, you won't see clear progression that would show learning by the AI model, as you'd usually see with a human artist making multiple attempts at an illustration. You'll just see fairly random options based on which part of the stolen dataset the machine latched onto.
The AI user might get better at choosing effective images. But that isn't creativity or art. That's shopping/selecting among the options.
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