yeah i'm getting the same. pick something much simpler like:

"A cup on a plate".

And then replace cup for other objects. It generates nonsense pretty quickly. It seems most able to generate stuff close to something which already exists in a complete form. Sort of a pastiche machine.

"some hands sticking out of random places"

That's the absense of reason sticking out: the "ai" mimics, but doesnt understand, so its creations are frankenstein-like bodies, almost human and for this reason more revulsing. So this "ai" represents an insane painter.

See my other comment.

> [...] It takes a while to get a feel for what prompts work and how to phrase things. I suggest browsing https://lexica.art/ and using some prompts from there as a template.

It's only good at prompts that ask it to do a non-photorealistic artistic style. All the photorealistic attempts are bad.

> All the photorealistic attempts are bad.

I wish people would stop exaggerating or making statements without some insight behind them.

I've seen hundreds, if not thousands of photorealistic result that range from acceptable to remarkably good.

One example it took seconds to find:

https://lexica.art/prompt/3fbc30ee-ca0f-42f6-8ea5-6890d469ab...

I misspoke. I meant to say photorealistic faces. I haven't seen a good one yet from DALL-E 2 or Stable Diffusion. The systems that are custom built just for faces do a good job at photorealistic faces, though.

They are bad because they explicitly filtered out faces from the training data.

Not true of SD