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AI image generators

Raised as a usability problem by 15 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2019–2026), in 15 threads.

This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.

People raised many different problems with AI image generators, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 15 complaints

After 2-3 edits, models silently redo the whole design, losing earlier changes2026-11-01
Ignores corrections, forgets earlier context, and needs many slow retries to get anything usable2026-07-06
Text-only prompting is a poor way to position elements in generated images2026-05-09
Users must rephrase prompts many times and burn credits before getting a usable image2025-12-18
Queued job cannot be found again after closing the page2025-06-07
Hard to steer generated images toward novel styles beyond trained examples2024-10-10
After signup the form doesn't start generating, so the user has to press generate again and guess2024-04-06
Clumsy guardrails refuse work and users must discover the policy through trial and error2024-02-22
On mobile, half the screen is unused and content overflows2023-10-30
Getting a specific result takes much work; the model requires retraining, blending, and fixing details2023-06-20
Editing via prompts mutates the original prompt and picture, which is frustrating2023-05-04
Each image takes 10 to 30 seconds, so iterating on settings is slow2023-04-05
Getting good results takes so much manual fixing that the commenter finds it infuriating2022-11-26
Users can't see their prompt results right away, so they leave2022-09-21
Page makes so many concurrent requests it fails on mediocre mobile connections2019-07-23