Reproducible canvas-aligned low-level patterns in somerandomllm-generated images and their possible relation to iterative editing artifacts [D]

I may have stumbled onto something interesting while trying to figure out a recurring artifact in ChatGPT image generation and editing (maybe applicable to other models as well?). It started with a very practical problem: After several rounds of generative editing on portraits, I would sometimes get this faint cloudy / mottled texture in areas that should have stayed smooth — backgrounds, walls, skin, and other low-detail regions. At first I wrote it off as normal denoising or regeneration noise. But the more I tested it, the less random it looked. What first caught my attention Running essent