AI has been better than this for quite some time now. I honestly miss this era of AI-generated images though. It was always immediately noticeably AI but created some absolutely vile Cronenberg-esque abominations that I’d consider a genuine art genre on its own. Now we just get realistic but slightly uncanny slop
I came to say that too! It was body horror and glorious. 4 arms in the wrong place? Eyes in funny places.
You haven’t seen high-quality generation of local AI models, they are especially good in cartoon styles. For example, in the NSFW genre in 2026, people who have learned to work with their local AI models create content faster, better, and more soulful than real people. And people don’t care, they call it a real art.
Here's an example: this is an NSFW picture created by a local AI.

And this is an average level: if you saw the high level of skill of local AIs, you would be surprised: in 2026, the pictures they create and even short videos are no different from human-created content: the same lines, the same styles, the same performances as real artists, only more smoothly, and only by a miracle will you be able to understand that it was created by AI, not by human.



