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DALL·E 2 prompt book [pdf]

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#31

This makes me wonder if a future job description will be the equivalent of an AI whisperer. Someone who learns how to prompt AI so well that it becomes their job.

Well, "devs" are doing that for the past 15 years, but using Google (without this pre-requisite in the job description tho)

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I’ve spent just over 1 week with DALL•E 2. Over the past 7 days I’ve generated ~1000 images, 150 of which were good enough to save. I only saved images which made me audibly gasp. Witnessing your own novel idea spring to life is a magical experience. DALL•E provides an artistic tool on a comparable level to digital photography, and by extension Photoshop. At this stage it’s 100% clear to me that DALL•E has heralded i…

How long did it take for you to generate your images? I've been using https://www.craiyon.com/ for fun but the wait times always results in me getting distracted elsewhere.

I've been using Midjourney [1] (it's not free, 25 photos demo, then 10$ for ~200 photos or 30$ for unlimited I think?). It's fairly fast, ~20s for a grid of 4, then as much for upscaling. I like the controls, it lets you do variations and tweak the image as you go.

It's not as good for doing concrete asks, but it's very good for getting specific vibes.

The website feed [1] requires Discord login to view examples, but there's some unofficial galleries [2]

[0] https://www.midjourney.com/

[1] https://www.midjourney.com/app/feed/all/

[2] https://www.instagram.com/midjourney.gallery/

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

How so? It’s a cool thing that creates cool things. How does “maybe something else was their first” effect that at all? DALL-E had a million things that had to be there first before it could do its magic. How does that fact take away from the excitement of the new realm of capability we have access to today?

Because only a certain few folks have access to DALL-E 2. I haven't got the invite and every day the ideas I was going to run with are already being done by others. Sure you can still do it, but it's not the same as a frontier where you can get the high, success, cash and fame out of a lot of easy ideas by being the first to do them. Eventually it's just a tool and you find a harder and more obscure niche to fill wit…

How did you plan to cash out on these "ideas"? They're 10 a penny surely?

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#34

This is awesome! I JUST got my invite and was googling prompt suggestions. The timing on this article is incredible.

Still waiting on mine! Are there any public dalle alternatives to play with in the meantime?

Yes: https://www.midjourney.com/ .. I use it as well as DALL-E 2 and it's better for anything particularly arty, dreamy, patterns, etc.

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#35

This makes me wonder if a future job description will be the equivalent of an AI whisperer. Someone who learns how to prompt AI so well that it becomes their job.

To an extent. But I think it'll get baked into existing jobs. A bit like how "computer skills" or the ability to write good Google queries ended up as part of regular clerical work.

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I haven't got access to DALL-E 2, but I did give Midjourney ( https://www.midjourney.com/ ) a go. I found it really cool it created images that somewhat resembled my prompt, but I still felt it was way off what I really wanted. Maybe I didn't word the prompt correctly, maybe I didn't give it enough tries. Either way, I feel like we'll eventually move away from generic prompts to something that'll look a lot like...pr…

I really enjoy Midjourney for more abstract and vague vibe art. It's not as good at specific stuff (although Imagen/Parti are much better at it even than Dall-E too, which has its own shortcoming around text and numbers).

My favorite is coming up with two word prompts, like "endless beginnings" or "stressful shapes" or "happy anxiety".

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Prompt crafting is quickly becoming an art. I just found out yesterday that there's actually market places for buying and selling prompts [0]. It can really make a big difference if you can tune the image by adding the right words. Midjourney [1] even allows things such as adjusting the weight of each keyword or how "literal" the AI should take your prompt.

[0] https://promptbase.com/

[1] https://midjourney.gitbook.io/docs/user-manual

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I’ve spent just over 1 week with DALL•E 2. Over the past 7 days I’ve generated ~1000 images, 150 of which were good enough to save. I only saved images which made me audibly gasp. Witnessing your own novel idea spring to life is a magical experience. DALL•E provides an artistic tool on a comparable level to digital photography, and by extension Photoshop. At this stage it’s 100% clear to me that DALL•E has heralded i…

How long did it take for you to generate your images? I've been using https://www.craiyon.com/ for fun but the wait times always results in me getting distracted elsewhere.

The quality of results is drastically better than craiyon, but of course you need access and might have to pay for DALL-E. Takes only a few seconds. Also has an editing mode where you can fine tune parts of the image or find variations.

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#40

This makes me wonder if a future job description will be the equivalent of an AI whisperer. Someone who learns how to prompt AI so well that it becomes their job.

This is absolutely the future, but it's not going to be obscure. You won't have a job if it isn't this or physical.

AIs are going to replace entry level creatives, and experienced users with taste will largely perform selection and the development of good starts to mature designs. And I mean all creatives. Engineers, architects, mathematicians, programmers.

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