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DALL·E now available in beta

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Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by danielvaughn »

nsxwolf wrote: post #234
peteforde wrote: post #228

I have been having a blast with DALL-E, spending about an hour a day trying out wild combinations and cracking my friends up. I cannot imagine getting bored of it; it's like getting bored with visual stimulus, or art in general. In fact, I've been glad to have a 50/day limit, because it helps me contain my hyperfocus instincts. The information about new pricing is, to me as someone just enjoying making crazy imagines…

I'm already bored of it. When you have everything, you have nothing.

I'm sure the novelty wears off. But I'm already coming up with several applications for it.

On the personal side, I've been getting into game development, but the biggest roadblock is creating concept art. I'm an artist but it takes a huge amount of time to get the ideas on paper. Using DALLE will be a massive benefit and will let me expedite that process.

It's important to note that this is not replacing my entire creative process. But it solves the issue I have, where I'm lying in bed imagining a scene in my mind, but don't have the time or energy to sketch it out myself.

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by TigeriusKirk »

dave_sullivan wrote: post #248
peteforde wrote: post #228

I have been having a blast with DALL-E, spending about an hour a day trying out wild combinations and cracking my friends up. I cannot imagine getting bored of it; it's like getting bored with visual stimulus, or art in general. In fact, I've been glad to have a 50/day limit, because it helps me contain my hyperfocus instincts. The information about new pricing is, to me as someone just enjoying making crazy imagines…

I think people don't realize how huge these models really are. When they're free, it's pretty cool. But charge an amount where there's actual profit in the product? Suddenly seems very expensive and not economically viable for a lot of use cases. We are still in the "you need a supercomputer" phase of these models for now. Something like DALLE mini is much more accessible but the results aren't good enough. Early ear…

What are the resources at work here?

What are the resources needed to train this model?

If someone just gave you the model for free, what resources would you need to use it to generate new results?

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by WalterSear »

rvz wrote: post #112
WalterSear wrote: post #54

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NFTs were never limited by artwork availability - they are limited by wash-trading ability.

These high photorealistic images can be generated on a mass-scale, completely automated without a human which ultimately cuts the need for an artist to do that. They will be replaced by DALL·E 2 for creating these illustrations, book covers, NFT variants, etc opening up the whole arena to anyone to do this themselves. All it takes is to describe what they want in text and less than a minute, the work is delivered as…

I'm not sure I understand the point you are trying to make.

Art is already dirt cheap. People aren't buying NFTs for their content. This doesn't make it appreciably easier to con rubes.

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by nsxwolf »

danielvaughn wrote: post #251
nsxwolf wrote: post #234

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm already bored of it. When you have everything, you have nothing.

I'm sure the novelty wears off. But I'm already coming up with several applications for it. On the personal side, I've been getting into game development, but the biggest roadblock is creating concept art. I'm an artist but it takes a huge amount of time to get the ideas on paper. Using DALLE will be a massive benefit and will let me expedite that process. It's important to note that this is not replacing my entire c…

I did notice it is very good at making small pixel art icons/sprites.

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by lbotos »

TaylorAlexander wrote: post #70
pornel wrote: post #37

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AFAIK only people can own copyright (the monkey selfie case tested this), and machine-generated outputs don't count as creative work (you can't write an algorithm that generates every permutation of notes and claim you own every song[1]), so DALL-E-generated images are most likely copyright-free. I presume OpenAI only relies on terms of service to dictate what users are allowed to do, but they can't own the images, a…

The monkey selfie was not derived from millions of existing works, and that is the difference. If an artist has a well-known art style, and this algorithm was trained on it and can copy that style, would the artist have grounds to sue? I don't know.

Well, music is not "pictures" but Marvin Gaye's family got 5 million because Blurred Lines sounds similar enough to a Marvin Gaye song (even though it was not a sample): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharrell_Williams_v._Bridgepor...

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by thatguy0900 »

danielvaughn wrote: post #251
nsxwolf wrote: post #234

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm already bored of it. When you have everything, you have nothing.

I'm sure the novelty wears off. But I'm already coming up with several applications for it. On the personal side, I've been getting into game development, but the biggest roadblock is creating concept art. I'm an artist but it takes a huge amount of time to get the ideas on paper. Using DALLE will be a massive benefit and will let me expedite that process. It's important to note that this is not replacing my entire c…

I've been having a blast using it in my dungeons and dragons games. If you type in, say, "dnd village battlemap" it's really pretty usable. Not to mention the wild magic weapons and monsters it can come up with.

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by selestify »

time_to_smile wrote: post #171
danielvf wrote: post #80

I am thrilled about DALL-E, and the new terms of service. However, how they implemented the improved "diversity" is hilarious. Turns out that they randomly, silently modify your prompt text to append words like "black male" or "female". See https://twitter.com/jd_pressman/status/1549523790060605440 I don't know which emotion I feel more - applause at how glorious this hack is or tears at how ugly it is. Good luck to…

This is funny because I work on a team that is using GPT-3 and to fix a variety of issues we have with incorrect output we've just been having the engineering team prepend/append text to modify the query. As we encounter more problems the team keeps tacking on more text to the query. This feels like a very hacky way to essentially reinvent programming badly. My bet is that in a few years or so only a small cohort of…

What are you using GPT-3 for in a commercial setting?

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by educaysean »

bequanna wrote: post #229
naillo wrote: post #117

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It's also funny that this likely won't 'unbias' any actual published images coming out of it. If 90% of the images in the world has a male CEO, then for whatever reason that's the image people will pick and choose from DALL-Es output. (Generalized to any unbiasing - i.e. they'll be debiased by humans.)

Imagine you're in South Korea (or any other ethnically homogenous country). Do you want "black" "female" randomly appended to your input?

If I was using this in South Korea, how is showing all white people any better than showing whites, blacks, latinos and asians?

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by _flux »

throwaway0x7E6 wrote: post #217
andybak wrote: post #136

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Have you tried any of the "human or Dall-E" tests? How did you score? I only scored as well as I did because I knew the kind of stylistic choices to look out for. In terms of "quality" I really don't understand how you've reached this conclusion.

I've only seen this thing https://huggingface.co/spaces/dalle-mini/dalle-mini is it not dall-e?

It is not and that's why OpenAI asked them to change the name, which they did.

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by [deleted] »

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?

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