It's only small faces that are distorted, and they are often heavily distorted, it's not an "uncanny valley effect", they look like disfigured pieces of meat an

It's only small faces that are distorted, and they are often heavily distorted, it's not an "uncanny valley effect", they look like disfigured pieces of meat and skin. It's the same in dalle-mini. Dalle2 can clearly generate super-realistic faces without any problem, if you look at most of the posts at r/dalle2 The issue with small faces might be architectural if there is context-aware upscaling going on in the network, where a face needs to start larger than some smallest scale or it won't survive that process. That in turn might be an issue of too little training. A small face in a photo in the training data won't generate as much error gradient if it goes wrong as a larger face, but as you suggest we as viewers are much more prone to scrutinize faces even though they are small.