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Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by practice9 »

zikduruqe wrote: post #147
causi wrote: post #133

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Interesting. Considering this is now a paid product, is modifying user input covered by their ToS? If I was spending a lot of money on it I'd be rather annoyed my input was being silently polluted.

Don't spend money. Use https://www.craiyon.com

Thankfully it doesn't introduce any researcher bias, doesn't ban people from using it on the basis of country, doesn't use your personal data like phone number...

And the best of all - it does have a meme community around it, and you can always donate if you feel it adds value to your life

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by CuriousSkeptic »

Jerrrry wrote: post #178
gnulinux wrote: post #145

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How's it NOT a problem? If I'm trying to produce "stock people images", and if it only gives me white men, it's clearly broken because when I ask for "people" I'm actually asking for "people". I'm having difficulty understanding how it can be considered to be working as intended, when it literally doesn't. Clearly, the software has substantial bias that gets in way of it accomplishing its task. If I want to produce "…

That is clearly overfitting due to unrepresentative training data. The "issue" is a different one: that training data - IE, reality, has _unwanted_ biases in it, because reality is biased. Producing images of men when prompting for "trash collecting workers" should not be much of a surprise: 99% of garbage collection/refuse is handled by men. I doubt most will consider this a "problem," because of one's own bias, nob…

> Asking DALLE for a bunch of football players, would expectedly produce a huddled group of black men

I think, for about 95% of the world football is synonymous with soccer. Its kind of interesting that you take this particular example to represent what reality looks like statistically

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by aantix »

bemmu wrote: post #58

I was supposed to be making a video game, but got a bit sidetracked when DALL·E came out and made this website on the side: http://dailywrong.com/ (yes I should get SSL). It's like The Onion, but all the articles are made with GPT-3 and DALL·E. I start with an interesting DALL·E image, then describe it to GPT-3 and ask it for an Onion-like article on the topic. The results are surprisingly good.

Feels like the headlines could be generated similar to the style of "They Fight Crime!"

"He's a hate-fuelled neurotic farmboy searching for his wife's true killer. She's a tortured insomniac snake charmer from a family of eight older brothers. They fight crime!"

https://theyfightcrime.org/

Here's an implementation in Perl.

http://paulm.com/toys/fight_crime.pl.txt

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by tildef »

bemmu wrote: post #58

I was supposed to be making a video game, but got a bit sidetracked when DALL·E came out and made this website on the side: http://dailywrong.com/ (yes I should get SSL). It's like The Onion, but all the articles are made with GPT-3 and DALL·E. I start with an interesting DALL·E image, then describe it to GPT-3 and ask it for an Onion-like article on the topic. The results are surprisingly good.

Actually got a chuckle out of the duck one (http://dailywrong.com/man-finally-comfortable-just-holding-a...). Thanks! I hope your keep generating them. Kind of wish there weren't a newsletter nag, but on the other hand it adds to the realism. Could be worthwhile to generate the text of the nag with gpt too; call it a kind of lampshading.

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by mod »

pliny wrote: post #85
Melting_Harps wrote: post #65

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> "Starting today, users get full usage rights to commercialize the images they create with DALL·E, including the right to reprint, sell, and merchandise. This includes images they generated during the research preview." >> And I just used it to create cover art for a book published in Amazon :) Man... what a missed opportunity for Altman... he could have had a really good cryptocurrency/token with a healthy ecosyste…

Why is using a token better than using money, in this case?

I assume something to do with proving ownership via NFT.

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by bilsbie »

brycethornton wrote: post #3

I'm blown away by this: "Starting today, users get full usage rights to commercialize the images they create with DALL·E, including the right to reprint, sell, and merchandise. This includes images they generated during the research preview." I assumed this was going to be the sticking point for wider usage for a long time. They're now saying that you have full rights to sell Dall-E 2 creations?

Every tech should do this. Could google maps silently change your designation to a minority owned alternative?

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by dntrkv »

jeanlucas wrote: post #149
gverri wrote: post #13

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$0.13/prompt can only be useful for artists/end users. Anyone thinking about using this at scale would need a 20/30x reduction in price. But there's still no API available so I think that will change with time. Maybe they will add different tiers based on volume.

Thing is, as a current user: you rarely get it right in the first prompt, you can iterate 10 times until you get what you want. I spent several tries yesterday to get this angle "from the ground up": https://labs.openai.com/s/mz8LiyvkI8KwD2luJ6MrS23m

So $1.30 for getting a result that would have cost how much to pay someone to make? Not to mention the 59 other variations you would have.

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by bequanna »

StrictDabbler wrote: post #125
cypress66 wrote: post #35

> Reducing bias: We implemented a new technique so that DALL·E generates images of people that more accurately reflect the diversity of the world’s population. This technique is applied at the system level when DALL·E is given a prompt about an individual that does not specify race or gender, like “CEO.” Will it do it "more accurately" as they claim? As in, if 90% of CEOs are male, then the odds of a CEO being male i…

If accurately reflects the world population then only one in six pictures will be a white person. Half the pictures will be Asian, another sixth will be Indian. Slightly more than half of the pictures will be women. That accurately represents the world's diversity. It won't accurately reflect the world's power balance but that doesn't seem to be their goal. If you want to say "white male CEO" because you want results…

> inoffensive tool.

Wouldn't that result end up being like "inoffensive art" or "inoffensive comedy"?

Bland, boring and Corporate-PC.

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by TomWhitwell »

Jerrrry wrote: post #178
gnulinux wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How's it NOT a problem? If I'm trying to produce "stock people images", and if it only gives me white men, it's clearly broken because when I ask for "people" I'm actually asking for "people". I'm having difficulty understanding how it can be considered to be working as intended, when it literally doesn't. Clearly, the software has substantial bias that gets in way of it accomplishing its task. If I want to produce "…

That is clearly overfitting due to unrepresentative training data. The "issue" is a different one: that training data - IE, reality, has _unwanted_ biases in it, because reality is biased. Producing images of men when prompting for "trash collecting workers" should not be much of a surprise: 99% of garbage collection/refuse is handled by men. I doubt most will consider this a "problem," because of one's own bias, nob…

In the UK… “The Environmental Services Association, the trade body, said that only 14 per cent of the country's 91,300 waste sector workers were female.” So 2x dall-e searches should produce 1.2 women.
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