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I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo

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Re: I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo

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simplified logo of engineer octopus with data four colors https://imgur.com/a/7l377qr simple logo of software engineer octopus using green yellow blue and orange databases https://imgur.com/a/V0WqyFl

Thanks for these phrases, they actually look really nice!

Time to buy more credits.

Re: I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo

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Like many I am still waiting for my access to be granted to it. I can understand them slowly opening it up more due to apparent resource constraints.

This does make me wonder if it would be feasible in the future to run these kinds of solutions on your PC, even with pretrained models. Or will these AI solutions generally trend towards being hosted in the "cloud" as consumer PC will never catch up in required resources for them?

Re: I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo

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I find this completely unethical. You're basically exploiting every single artist whose art was used - without agreement - as training data for Dall-E. It would be different if all the training data was art that was explicitly licensed for this.

Isn't this similar to how every single piece of art is created? You look at bunch of propriety art, copy it to learn how to create it yourself (just for learning, not to sell those copies), eventually learn enough to start being able to create art from scratch and then start selling your unique art? Would watching a lot of animated movies in order to learn how to create good animated movies yourself be unethical as w…

It's absolutely logically consistent to allow humans to do X while forbidding AI to do X.

Re: I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doctors are very vulnerable. Most of dermatology is simple pattern recognition. I can easily see AI lawyers beating human lawyers in litigation, too. An AI lawyer will have read every single case and know the outcomes, and can fine tune arguments for specific parameters like which judge etc.

> Most of dermatology is simple pattern recognition. I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software. 2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive. Most pe…

What on earth are you referring to? I assume it’s some sort of implicit joke but I don’t get it :)

Edit: Ahh, it’s the Dropbox comment of HN fame. Never mind.

Re: I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo

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Hey, author here, happy to answer any questions! The logo was created for OctoSQL[0] and in the article you can find a lot of sample phrase-image combinations, as it describes the whole path (generation, variation, editing) I went down. Let me know what you think! And btw. if you get access take a look at [1] before you start using it. A ton of useful bits and pieces for your phrases. TLDR: DALL·E 2 is really cool, t…

I also tried to make it generate an icon for a product and I managed to get it to show me interesting things, but never got to make it actually draw it as one. Do you remember which prompt resulted in this macOS-ish app shape?

https://jacobmartins.com/images/dalle2/DALL%C2%B7E%202022-08...

Re: I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo

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This blog post proves that Dall-E 2 will not make human taste and design ability obsolete. The final image he ended up with is a lot uglier and more complicated than most of the intermediate steps. I think generative art AIs will have a similar effect on design as compilers have on software development, and will not put artists out of a job.

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Re: I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo

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post #83

This blog post proves that Dall-E 2 will not make human taste and design ability obsolete. The final image he ended up with is a lot uglier and more complicated than most of the intermediate steps. I think generative art AIs will have a similar effect on design as compilers have on software development, and will not put artists out of a job.

I agree, what a clunky process. Hard to express in written prose what you want, so much ambiguity.

Even if you get close to what you, the human, may like--it's difficult if not impossible to articulate what you like about it and iterate. Black box, keep trying random keywords... May as well grab a marker (read: hire a human)

Re: I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo

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Hey, author here, happy to answer any questions! The logo was created for OctoSQL[0] and in the article you can find a lot of sample phrase-image combinations, as it describes the whole path (generation, variation, editing) I went down. Let me know what you think! And btw. if you get access take a look at [1] before you start using it. A ton of useful bits and pieces for your phrases. TLDR: DALL·E 2 is really cool, t…

Hi cube2222,

thanks for the writeup. I looked at your other blog posts and I would like to read more about octosql (needs/specification, architecture, development strategies, challenges, DBMS protocols/interfaces/libraries).

And thank you for adding outer joins after I recently mentioned that they are missing!

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