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DALL·E 2 prompt book [pdf]

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Re: DALL·E 2 prompt book [pdf]

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Post by dmix »

ehsankia wrote: post #32
dmix wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

looks like Midjourney's beta invite is expired

Re: DALL·E 2 prompt book [pdf]

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Post by memish »

ehsankia wrote: post #37

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.i…

Does anyone know what kind of prompt generates such clean, consistent results like these?

https://promptbase.com/prompt/clay-emojis

https://promptbase.com/prompt/polygon-animals

Re: DALL·E 2 prompt book [pdf]

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Post by nealeratzlaff »

soperj wrote: post #17
jw1224 wrote: post #13

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…

Honestly, I have a great use case for it currently, but then I realized it can only do square pictures, when I really want something that is much wider than it is tall.

You can get DALLE-2 to give different sized images by using their tool to crop out most of the image you already generated, then have it inpaint a completion. You can then use any image editing tool to combine the two images.

Re: DALL·E 2 prompt book [pdf]

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Post by Siira »

archontes wrote: post #40
reggieband wrote: post #30

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.

Mathematicians, doubtful. Someone must do some verification of the AI results.

Programmers, also doubtful. You still need to design some APIs and interact with them. Interacting with an AI using natural language might become possible, but it definitely won’t be as efficient as more structured languages. (E.g., writing an algorithm in actual code is often much easier than teaching it to a human.)

Re: DALL·E 2 prompt book [pdf]

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Post by ehsankia »

Angostura wrote: post #49
ehsankia wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

What's the business with Midjourney demanding Discord details to sign up? Seems off.

The whole thing is run through Discord bot, which is unfortunate but I guess it allowed them to get half their infrastructure for free? You interact with the bot through Discord commands and it generates and returns the photos to you.

Re: DALL·E 2 prompt book [pdf]

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Post by jiggawatts »

I just got access to the DALL-E 2 beta, and it's a ton of fun to make pictures out of everyday occurrences as prompts.

Someone else here on HN observed that everyday people don't "get" how huge this all is. I experimented with asking random acquaintances at a local cafe for prompts and showed them the generated pictures. All but one person was totally unimpressed.

If everything feels like magic, then what's one more piece of magic?

This scared me more than the implications of DALL•E 2 itself specifically. People think of the technology in the world as mysterious black boxes that do inexplicable things, and they hence no longer understand relative complexity, progress, or change.

My impression is that to most people DALL•E 2 is not "substantially" different to, say, Google Image search. Text in... image out. What's the big deal?

Re: DALL·E 2 prompt book [pdf]

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Post by LelouBil »

Siira wrote: post #55
archontes wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Mathematicians, doubtful. Someone must do some verification of the AI results. Programmers, also doubtful. You still need to design some APIs and interact with them. Interacting with an AI using natural language might become possible, but it definitely won’t be as efficient as more structured languages. (E.g., writing an algorithm in actual code is often much easier than teaching it to a human.)

I really like your last sentence. It's exactly the thing to respond to people saying "AI will automate programmers"

Re: DALL·E 2 prompt book [pdf]

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Post by corysama »

dmix wrote: post #51
ehsankia wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

looks like Midjourney's beta invite is expired

The server is open now. Anyone can join. https://discord.gg/midjourney

Re: DALL·E 2 prompt book [pdf]

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Post by tkgally »

Like many others, it seems, I have also been blown away by DALL-E 2.

When I got access on Sunday, I first tried a lot of different prompts and got some interesting results. One semirandom one, “A photograph of a professor playing a grand piano on a rainy night in Tokyo,” produced some very atmospheric images. I then went down a rabbit hole of variations on that prompt (“A painting of...,” “A line drawing of...,” “A painting in the style of Rembrandt of...,” etc.).

I put most of the results into the following video, if anyone is interested.

https://youtu.be/rdT4ZESQWco

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