AI IMAGE GENERATORS RESORT BACK TO THE SAME 12 PHOTO STYLES, STUDY CALLS IT ‘VISUAL ELEVATOR MUSIC'

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Researchers found that when AI image models repeatedly generate and re-describe images, they rapidly converge on a small set of generic visual styles regardless of the original prompt. Across thousands of runs, outputs consistently settled into about a dozen recurring motifs, which the authors liken to bland, stock “visual elevator music.”