Medium Rare After a chaotic few months, embattled AI startup Stability AI released the latest version of its text-to-image AI model, Stable Diffusion 3 Medium. According to Stability, the new AI is its “most sophisticated image-generating model to date.” So why is it consistently generating freakish body horror monstrosities? As Ars Technica reports, disappointed Stable Diffusion users have taken to Reddit to complain that the new model often refuses to generate a picture of a human that isn’t a horrifyingly mangled, AI-generated mess of incoherent limbs. “I haven’t been able to generate a single decent image at all outside of the example prompts,” one irritated Redditor wrote in a thread on the r/StableDiffusion subreddit. “I’ve tried highly descriptive prompts with no luck. Even an absolutely basic one like ‘photograph of a person napping in a living room’ leads to Cronenberg-esque monstrosities.” It would “be funny if not so depressing :(” added another frustrated user. A few users in the thread reported that they were able to generate normal-looking humans, but those folks seem to be in a small minority. Want an AI-spun picture of a person? If you’re using Stable Diffusion 3, watch out for appendage soup. Taking a look at people testing out Stable Diffusion 3 and tbh this goes hard. pic.twitter.com/Ii7bHqmX9Y — Max Woolf (@minimaxir) June 12, 2024 Cronenberg-22 Based on evidence shared by Redditors, Cronenberg-esque is an accurate descriptor for the images. A simple prompt for “woman laying on a beach,” for example, allegedly resulted in whatever…The New Stable Diffusion Is Producing Horrific Mangled Human Bodies