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Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by alana314 »

cornel_io wrote: post #349
speedgoose wrote: post #334

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In my experience it doesn’t require that much cherry picking if you use a carefully crafted prompt. For example: “ A professional photography of a software developer talking to a plastic duck on his desk, bright smooth lighting, f2.2, bokeh, Leica, corporate stock picture, highly detailed” And this is the first picture I got: https://labs.openai.com/s/lSWOnxbHBYQAtli9CYlZGqcZ It got it a bit strong on the depth of fi…

NB: when you share links like that, nobody who doesn't have access can see the results

sure they can, just tried in incognito

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by alana314 »

isoprophlex wrote: post #296

Wait until someone trains a model like this, for porn. There seems to be a post-DALLE obscenity detector on openAI's tool, as so far I've found it to be entirely robust against deliberate typos designed to avoid simple 'bad word lists'. Ask it for a "pruple violon" and you get purple violins... you get the deal. "Metastable" prompts that may or may not generate obscene (content with nudity, guns, violence as I've fou…

I tried the term "cockeyed" and got a TOS violation notice

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by sillysaurusx »

bemmu wrote: post #196
busyant wrote: post #183

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This is clever. Does GPT-3 come up with the title of the article, too? That's the funniest part.

At first I came up with them myself, but found that it often comes up with better ones, so I ask it for variations. I think I got it to even fill the title given a picture, something like “Article picture caption: Man holding an apple. Article title: ...”. Might experiment more with that in the future.

How do you prompt GPT-3 to come up with the titles? That’s an interesting problem.

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by napier »

berberous wrote: post #318
napier wrote: post #263

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The only thing I don’t like about MidJourney is the Discord based interface. I think I can grok why Dave chose this route as it bakes in an active community element and allows users to pick up prompt engineering techniques osmotically… but I’d prefer a clean DALL-E style app and cli / api access.

In case you don’t know, you can at least PM the MidJourney bot so you have an uncluttered workspace. It’s clearly personally preference, but I loathe Discord but love it for MidJourney. As you said, there’s an interactive element where I see other people doing cool things and adapting part of their prompts and vice versa. It really is fun. And when you do it in a PM, you have all your efforts saved. DALL-E is pretty…

Thanks. Yeah fair point; I haven’t ponied up for a subscription yet so am still stuck in public channels and often find my generations get lost in the stream. Imagine you’re right and having the PM option would change the experience drastically for the better albeit still within Discord’s visually chaotic environment.

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by ru552 »

DecayingOrganic wrote: post #82

Since many people will start generating their first images soon, be sure to check out this amazing DALL-E prompt engineering book [0]. It will help you get the most out of DALL-E. [0]: https://dallery.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/The-DALL%... (PDF)

nice write up, thanks

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

kache_ wrote: post #78
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…

They literally just add "black" and "female" with some weight before any prompt containing person. A comical work around to so called "bias" (isn't the whole point of these models to encode some bias?). Here's some experimentation showing this. https://twitter.com/rzhang88/status/1549472829304741888 As competitors with lower price points prop up, you'll see everyone ditch models with "anti bias" measures and take the…

How does it deal with bias that is negative?

Would only work for positive biases where if they actually want to equalize it then it needs to be adding the opposite to negative biases.

To counteract the bias of their dataset they need to have someone sitting there actively thinking in bias to counteract the bias with anti-bias seasoning for every bias causing term. Feel bad for whatever person is tasked with that job.

Could always just fix your dataset, but who's got time and money to do that /s

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #163

The name "OpenAI" to me implies being open-source. I have an RTX 3080 and will likely be buying a 4090 when it comes out. Will I ever be able to generate these images locally, rather than having to use a paid service? I've done it with DALL-E Mini, but the images from that don't hold a candle to what DALL-E 2 produces.

Their choice of name gets funnier every month.

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by [deleted] »

ZeWaka wrote: post #319
eigenvalue wrote: post #302

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I've been using this app to upscale the images to 4000x4000, and it works amazingly well (there is also a version for Android): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/waifu2x/id1286485858 I paid extra to get the higher quality model using the in-app purchase option. It crushes the phone's battery life, but runs in only ~10 seconds on an iPhone 13 Pro for a single 1000x1000 input image.

I mean, waifu2x and similar waifuxx libraries are free and open-source, there's really no reason to pay for it if you're working on a desktop.

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Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by napier »

visarga wrote: post #344
harpersealtako wrote: post #299

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I've absolutely noticed that. I used to pay for GPT-3 access through AI Dungeon back in 2020, before it got censored and run into the ground. In the AI fiction community we call that "Summer Dragon" ("Dragon" was the name of the AI dungeon model that used 175B GPT-3), and we consider it the gold standard of creativity and knowledge that hasn't been matched yet even 2 years later. It had this brilliant quality to it w…

So it got worse for creative writing, but it got much better at solving few-shot tasks. You can do information extraction from various documents with it, for example.

I mean yes, you’re right insofar as it goes. However nothing I am aware of implies technical reasons linking these two variables into a necessarily inevitable trade-off. And it’s not only creative writing that’s been hobbled; GPT3 used to be an incredibly promising academic research tool and given the right approach to prompts could uncover disparate connections between siloed fields that conventional search can only dream of.

I’m eager for OpenAi to wake up and walk back on the clumsy corporate censorship, and/or for competitors to replicate the approach and improve upon the original magic without the “bias” obsession tacked on. Real challenge though “bias” may pose in some scenarios, perhaps a better way to address this would be at the training data stage rather than clumsily gluing on an opaque approach towards poorly implemented, idealist censorship lacking in depth (and perhaps arguably, also lacking sincerity).

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by edm0nd »

aantix wrote: post #203
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

lol that site is great

>He's an unconventional gay paranormal investigator moving from town to town, helping folk in trouble. She's a violent motormouth wrestler from the wrong side of the tracks. They fight crime!

>He's a Nobel prize-winning sweet-toothed rock star who believes he can never love again. She's a strong-willed communist widow with a knack for trouble. They fight crime!

>He's an obese white trash barbarian with a secret. She's a virginal thirtysomething traffic cop with the power to bend men's minds. They fight crime!

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