Your sub-headline leads me to wonder about the difference between the prompt “Sailor Moon making a salad” vs “Sailor Moon tries to make a salad”. Former is relatively straightforward vs-a-vis symbolic mode you discuss but latter perhaps begins with a right-brain judgement about the nature of “trying” which human artist may better capture than AI.
The AI art generators are drawing on the left side of whatever brain they have
Your sub-headline leads me to wonder about the difference between the prompt “Sailor Moon making a salad” vs “Sailor Moon tries to make a salad”. Former is relatively straightforward vs-a-vis symbolic mode you discuss but latter perhaps begins with a right-brain judgement about the nature of “trying” which human artist may better capture than AI.