Where the garbled letters in AI pictures come from

A menu board, an invoice total or a 'no letters' line all invite writing into a picture. We sent the same prompts to FLUX and ChatGPT and compared.

Mostly from the prompt. When a scene contains something that normally carries writing, such as a chalkboard menu, the total on an invoice or a street sign, the image model is being asked to write; and in a tool with only one prompt box, even a phrase meant to forbid letters still mentions letters. How badly that writing turns out depends on the tool. In our probe, FLUX schnell answered three such prompts with a board of pseudo-letters, a total whose figures were wrong, and a sign that lost its house number, while ChatGPT spelled every requested word and figure correctly. When the same three scenes were described as plain shapes, both tools returned clean pictures with no garbled letters at…

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