For some reason I'm getting quite a few deformed faces these days. I thought we were past all that.

Is it something I am doing? My prompts are pretty simple so I don't understand how faces can look so bad these days.

i've had same problem  when having more than 2 people in a picture -maybe due to smoothing when showing small faces? - much more annoying than extra fingers as no way to post-process

For some reason I'm getting quite a few deformed faces these days. I thought we were past all that.

Is it something I am doing? My prompts are pretty simple so I don't understand how faces can look so bad these days.

I don't do much with people, or real photo, but one of the tip places said add a command Not Ugly, or Not deformed. Some days I wonder?

Do we need to tell AI, only five fingers on a hand? Or maybe, fish only have two eyes, not two on one side of the head.  I'd never be able to figure out how things are suspended by invisible space, chairs with three legs, or horse that can have 5 or 6 legs, because AI combines what it has learned and if one image had the legs back, while running and the other has legs up under the body, that horse will have six legs.

I got tired of mean faces and bland faces, now I add smiling or happy. Be forewarned, some AI when doing happy smiling people, seems to decide, "laughing" means their eyes are closed. You might have to add, eyes open.

Do you add beautiful, attractive, pretty, normal, symmetrical face... ? Smiling profile of a beautiful woman that doesn't look like she was drawn by Picasso.  Unfortunately AI is stupid and will see "Drawn by picasso" and will not recognize the "doesn't look like", you need to use negative commands.

Good Luck!