Masterpiece, best quality, highres

This series pairs AI-generated images before and after creative upscaling with the prompt "Masterpiece, best quality, highres." What began as abstract forms from Ganbreeder unexpectedly transformed into structures containing human features—eyes, lips, and skin tones. The evolution of these biases is relatively new; today's AI systems increasingly gravitate toward certain visual elements they've been trained to associate with quality and beauty, regardless of input. As upscalers subtly override our authorial intent and reinterpret our work, this project turns the tables by challenging these algorithms with impossible tasks—forcing them into a visual tug-of-war between the surreal and the sensual. These images capture that struggle, revealing the absurdity of how "masterpiece" has somehow become synonymous with "sexy lady" in AI's understanding. The resulting tension reflects not just aesthetic choices, but the broader cultural shifts happening within generative AI as we grapple with who—or what—truly authors these images.