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Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by POPOSYS »

walrus01 wrote: post #385
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.

The results with things that are artworks or more general concepts are fascinating, but there is for sure something creepy with "photorealistic" human eyes and faces going on... If you want to see some really creepy AI generated human "photo" faces, take a look at Bots of New York: https://www.facebook.com/botsofnewyork

Unfortunately the content of that project is a hostage of Facebook now - similar to ransomware gangsters they force you to do something to get the data, in this case you need to create an account and take part in that global surveillance network. I do not understand why people do that.

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

harpersealtako wrote: post #267
andybak wrote: post #87

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I also got access a couple of weeks ago and I can't fathom how anyone could be underwhelmed by it. What were you expecting?

Dalle seems to only have a few "styles" of drawing that it is actually "good" at. It is particularly strong at these styles but disappointingly underwhelming at anything else, and will actively fight you and morph your prompt into one of these styles even when given an inpainting example of exactly what you want. It's great at photorealistic images like this: https://labs.openai.com/s/0MFuSC1AsZcwaafD3r0nuJTT , but i…

The face thing is weird in context of them not being worried about it infringing on the copyright of art. If they're confident it's not going to infringe on art copyright, why the worry it might generate the face of a real person.

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Post by dr_dshiv »

edm0nd wrote: post #360
aantix wrote: post #203

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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 barbar…

I definitely want to see the DALLE illustrations for this!

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by jfoster »

softwaredoug wrote: post #398

Surprised by the lack of comments on the ethics of DALL-E being trained on artists content whereas copilot threads are chock full of devs up in arms over models trained on open source code. Isn’t it the same thing?

It feels like it would be good for this to not be a legal grey area. Whether it's considered a large copyright infringement conspiracy or a form of fair use, it would be good if the law reached a position on that sooner rather than later.

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by noahbradley »

softwaredoug wrote: post #398

Surprised by the lack of comments on the ethics of DALL-E being trained on artists content whereas copilot threads are chock full of devs up in arms over models trained on open source code. Isn’t it the same thing?

There are a few of those discussions going on in artist's circles these days. I imagine they'll get sued for doing this, but it'll probably take a very famous artist or a hell of a class action suit to make it happen.

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

Jerrrry wrote: post #130
protonbob wrote: post #108

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Honestly I would rather that they not try. I don't understand why a computer tool has to be held to a political standard.

There are legitimate reasons to reduce externalizations of societies innate biases. A mortgage AI that calculates premiums for the public shouldn't bias against people with historically black names, for example. This problem is harder to tackle because it is difficult to expose and resign the "latent space" that results in these biases; it's difficult to massage the ML algo's to identify and remove the pathways that…

Wouldn't the whole point of a "Mortgage AI" be to discriminate so the lenders hands could be clean.

Not that I agree with that but I don't see why you would build one otherwise, if you wanted discrimination free mortgages wouldn't the whole process by anonymized and minimal personal information rather than the current system of having to hand over every detail of your life.

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by AndrianV »

Every day for the past week or so, I've spent an hour or so using DALL-E, making up new combos and making my pals laugh. In the same way that you can't get bored of art or visual stimulation, you can't get bored of this either.

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by scrollaway »

POPOSYS wrote: post #511
walrus01 wrote: post #385

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The results with things that are artworks or more general concepts are fascinating, but there is for sure something creepy with "photorealistic" human eyes and faces going on... If you want to see some really creepy AI generated human "photo" faces, take a look at Bots of New York: https://www.facebook.com/botsofnewyork

Unfortunately the content of that project is a hostage of Facebook now - similar to ransomware gangsters they force you to do something to get the data, in this case you need to create an account and take part in that global surveillance network. I do not understand why people do that.

Hyperbole will get you nowhere good (Just ask RMS).

How about wording your comment in a way that highlights why it’s a shame these pictures aren’t accessible for those without a Facebook account, and skip the whole “you’re murdering puppies” bit?

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