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Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by sabertoothed »

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.

You should let readers rate the articles. This way readers new to the site can read the best ones first and get a good impression.

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

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.

Haha I love this one: https://dailywrong.com/why-your-dog-could-be-an-alien/

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by jraph »

anhncommenter25 wrote: post #430
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?

I recently talked with a concept artist about DALL-E and first thing they mentioned was "you know that's all stolen art, right?" Immediately made me think of GitHub Copilot. However the artists being featured in DALL-E's newsletters can't stop gushing about 'the new instrument they are learning how to play' and other such metaphors that are meant to launder what's going on. My theory is that the professions most at-r…

> My theory is that the professions most at-risk for automation are acting on their anxieties

That's not my problem with Copilot. I think tools and methods that can free human from some amount of work are good in a correctly organized society. They have been existing for a long time, too. They let us free time for other stuff that can't be automated. This extra free time could theoretically let us have more leisure or rest time too. I also trust myself to be able to learn another job if mine can ever be automated.

But I don't want my work to be reused under terms I don't approve of. There are some things I don't want to help with my work and this is reflected in the licenses I choose. I totally sympathize with artists who don't want their work to be reused in ways they don't like. I don't find this hard to understand. I also don't find it hard to understand that if an artist do some work that you should pay for to use is not happy with their work being reused without being paid. They should get paid a tiny bit for each generated art if theirs is in the training set, and only if they approve this use. That's would be only fair, the set would not be possible without those artists.

(Good for me, my personal code is not on GitHub for other, older, reasons)

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

slavak wrote: post #311
zanderwohl wrote: post #294

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Somehow these articles are more readable than typical AI-generated search engine fodder... Is it because I'm entering the site with an expectation of nonsense?

Probably because, by the creator's own admission, the articles are heavily cherry-picked to make sure the output is decent, which is probably a lot more human effort than goes into the aforementioned search engine fodder. http://dailywrong.com/sample-page/

That's... so weirdly ironic I can't even! Blogspam websites are made by real humans with little oversight, while a literal AI with oversight generates better results.

That said, with a little tweaking, these technologies can - and probably already are - being used to churn out blogspam websites left and right, fully automatic.

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by tekni5 »

anhncommenter25 wrote: post #430
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?

I recently talked with a concept artist about DALL-E and first thing they mentioned was "you know that's all stolen art, right?" Immediately made me think of GitHub Copilot. However the artists being featured in DALL-E's newsletters can't stop gushing about 'the new instrument they are learning how to play' and other such metaphors that are meant to launder what's going on. My theory is that the professions most at-r…

This entire concept of AI learning using copyrighted works is going to be really tested in courts at some point, perhaps very soon, if not already.

However if the result is adequately different, I don't see how it is different from someone viewing other's work and then being "inspired" and creating something new. If you think about it the vast majority of things are built on top of existing ideas.

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by dash2 »

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.

How do you generate the original image? And what about the subsequent images, do they come automatically from the text? I'd love to know more about the process.

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by dx034 »

xnx wrote: post #76

I fully expect stock image sites to be swamped by DALL-E generated images that match popular terms (e.g. "business person shaking hands"). Generate the image for $0.15. Sell it for $1.00.

So what's the loss? It's not like stock photos are the highest art form. Surely, for some people it means they need to change their business model, but all those just needing pictures to illustrate something the process will be much smoother.

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by dx034 »

jug wrote: post #337
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’ve thought about this and in fact porn generation sounds like a good thing?? It ensures that it’s victimless. Of course, there is a problem with generation of illegal (underage) porn but other than this, I think it could be helpful for this world.

If all of the child porn industry switched to generated images they'd still be horrible people but many kids would be saved from having these pictures taken. So a commercial model should certainly ban it, but I don't think it's the biggest thing we have to worry about.

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by peab »

jnovek wrote: post #316
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…

My heart sank when I saw the pricing model. I’ve been creating generative art since 2016 and I’ve been anxiously waiting for my invite. I wont be able to afford to generate the volume of images it takes to get good ones at this price point. I can afford $20/mo for something like this but I just can’t swing $200 to $300 it realistically takes to get interesting art out of these CLIP-centric models. Heck, the initial 5…

You can also try out wombo Dream - their newest version is similar to mid journey, and is unlimited
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