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Is DALL-E deterministic, like if I type the same phrase it will always generate the same images?
I’m general, most Deep Learning processes these days are non-deterministic because 1) they only care about statistical correctness 2) there are some speed advantages in ignoring the existence of race condition bugs if you don’t care about being deterministic
I dont know how artists feel about DALL-E but as an amateur I feel bad. "This should be forbidden" bad. I guess the root of this feeling is the same as the one Copilot gives OSS programmers, it feels like theft and copyright enfringement. The pictures in this case uses techniques and colors scheme widely used by illustrator in the entertainment industries. Some of them are even above the average quality and that's sc…
It’s the equivalent of the technological enslavement of most humans who will be told that their inputs used in the AÍ “have no value” while the AÍ aggregates it all.
I dont know how artists feel about DALL-E but as an amateur I feel bad. "This should be forbidden" bad. I guess the root of this feeling is the same as the one Copilot gives OSS programmers, it feels like theft and copyright enfringement. The pictures in this case uses techniques and colors scheme widely used by illustrator in the entertainment industries. Some of them are even above the average quality and that's sc…
I dont know how artists feel about DALL-E but as an amateur I feel bad. "This should be forbidden" bad. I guess the root of this feeling is the same as the one Copilot gives OSS programmers, it feels like theft and copyright enfringement. The pictures in this case uses techniques and colors scheme widely used by illustrator in the entertainment industries. Some of them are even above the average quality and that's sc…
You can not regulate away tech advancements. Your competitors (researchers, companies, or countries - depending on granularity) certainly won't.
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> The pictures in this case uses techniques and colors scheme widely used by illustrator in the entertainment industries. "Widely used" seems to negate your point here, no? I would expect a machine to use widely used techniques, rather than ones specific to individual artists. I don't know about you, but I've never seen DALL-E replicate an art style that isn't popular enough to be common knowledge. > Some of them are…
It's purely luddite reasoning. The real objection is that it makes artists less valuable. Which is unfortunate, because they already arent that valuable (save for the top ~1%). But it's not a good reason to oppose DALL-E.
Close but not exactly. How do they feel about it?
At some point if we all feel bad, well this is very bad.
Maybe we should ban DALL-E for the same reasons we ban hard drugs: for the health of the community.
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It's purely luddite reasoning. The real objection is that it makes artists less valuable. Which is unfortunate, because they already arent that valuable (save for the top ~1%). But it's not a good reason to oppose DALL-E.
The real objection is that it makes artists less valuable. Close but not exactly. How do they feel about it? At some point if we all feel bad, well this is very bad. Maybe we should ban DALL-E for the same reasons we ban hard drugs: for the health of the community.
Many of us will become redundant thanks to automation in the next few decades. That's just how it is.
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You don’t see a downside to there being fewer artists creating art? Art benefits humanity not only because we consume it, but also because we produce it. Making art is part of what makes us human.
I’ve used Midjourney for months now. Artists love it. It will lead to fewer people creating art the same way the cars led to less people traveling. It’s like having a pre-concept artist for for concept artist. Instant style boards to run by your client.
No doubt that AI-driven tools can be leveraged by artists to create interesting things, in the same way that visual artists have used tools like Photoshop.
But there is something much more profound happening with DALL-E, etc. As I mentioned above, these AI systems simultaneously depend on human artists to populate its training corpus, while making it much less likely that these artists will be able to make a living producing art.
Even if other artists working higher-up in the value chain benefit from these systems, you are likely to see fewer professional illustrators and visual artists because these systems exists.
Something will be lost. We can hope that what we gain in return will be of equal value.