A.I. Art Has a Big Problem, and It Isn't All the Weird Fingers

Last Monday, I began looking into why artificial intelligence is still so bad at creating hands. In recent weeks, lots of people have been sharing images that could be mistaken for photos of actual humans--until your eyes wander to the subjects' misshapen fingers. A.I.'s inability to create realistic hands is a long-standing issue, highlighting both that the technology needs refining and that fingers are extraordinary things. To compare various A.I. tools' hand skills, I entered this prompt into five different art generators: "A couple that has been together for 50 years holding hands after a fight." The hands were not stellar.