The generator keeps some data from the made images, and reuses it for the next images. This is the cause of a very bad bug. It amplifies noise patterns very quickly, after just 3-5 pictures, the images are destroyed.
At the moment, the only workaround is to restart the session by reloading the web page.
It is not entirely clear where the noise comes from. It could be a watermark that is mixed in to recognize AI images. That was an idea from @_j and makes sense to me. It could be part of a deepfake detection method, which unfortunately becomes more important the better the generators get.
But it could also be incorrect methods to add details or problems in the math and the method of the generator. Aside from a possible watermark, what it could also be is an incorrect method of adding details to an image. I have experimented with such methods myself. You can make an image more detailed by specifically modifying the latent space during image generation. Or by giving the image a starting direction by influencing the initial noise, so the start is no longer completely random.
Since the new generator is a hybrid method that, as far as I know, (is not publicly explained), it is difficult to say where the pattern comes from. But it is clearly amplified by the fact that the generator reuses image data. The patterns are already visible to me in the very first image and are disturbing, especially on structured surfaces or clouds. I can already recognize the pattern in the very first image in many images. I do not know exactly what my brain is doing, but it feels uncomfortable, just like the flicker confetti noise that DallE 3 generated. It is similar to the blubber distortion artifacts in heavily compressed MP3 files. Newer audio compression methods are better, they produce information loss that has less acoustic structure. Visually, the brain is stressed in the same way as with acoustic distortions, even before the pattern is destructive.
No unique pictures anymore in the same session: A related problem is now, that it is not possible to make multiple different images with different seeds using the same prompt. Each time, the session must be renewed for a new picture.
It would be an easy fix for OpenAI: Just do not reuse image data for the next images, and two problems are fixed at once—no noise amplification and no identical images in the same session anymore. The reedit anyway not work so. And for a reedit, the edit page shold be used for this, including re-prompting or prompt base corrections.
(For testing, I usually make 10 pictures of the same prompt. This means now I must restart the page for every new generation. Very toilsome. I think many customers make more than 1 image with the same prompt if they like the outcome.)
This are 5 images in a row, with the same prompt:
Each generation reinforces the pattern.
And all images are the same.
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Here every prompt was different, this is the 5 generation:
Same effect, it keeps data from the previews pictures.
The destruction is even worse, because of the differences of the image data each step.
