If you do regular image gen, you can see that these images demonstrate memorized styles, broken anatomy, bad text layout (or hallucinated text), etc. Even the old Dall-E watermark is a throwback.
Generation times are orthogonal.
Here's my homelab blog: https://www.gavmor.com/regular-labs/
Maybe I'm just not that observant, but all these pictures are just... "LGTM."
When I'm generating, I have really specific adherence/performance goals.
I think we can still appreciate these snapshots in time.
In the future, this will be an aesthetic. Some already consider early AI jankiness a style.