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I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by silvestrov »

xwdv wrote: post #62
ravenstine wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's coming for us, too. It won't be long before most software engineer positions are eliminated while some are replaced by software "technicians" with enough expertise to command AI to generate working code. Perhaps the technicians will be tasked with building tests and some automation, but even that stuff can be delegated to AI to an extent. This may seem far off because the present economy is accustomed to paying…

It will never come for us. You think it will, but that’s because you don’t understand software. Pick any random Jira ticket for a large software project. Could an AI understand and implement that feature into a larger project? Can it correctly deploy it without interruptions to production jobs? Will it correctly implement tests and decent code coverage? If there are regressions will it know how to go in and fix them?…

Writing software is like writing novels: putting words together to make sentences is easy. Making the story make sense is difficult.

One could think that much of art is just pretty form without sense and that is why DALL-E works.

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by Alex3917 »

akamaka wrote: post #9

Am I one of the few people who finds these generated pictures really bad? They often have weird and unsettling details when you look closely. I mean, it’s an incredible achievement in AI that we can generate images at this level, but I don’t want them shown to me on a daily basis while I’m reading blogs.

> Am I one of the few people who finds these generated pictures really bad?

Bad compared with what? They certainly convey a lot more information than a randomly generated gravatar.

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by brundolf »

Honestly, this is an awesome use of DALL-E and I'll probably start doing the same for my blog

It's perfect because:

- The images just need to get across a vibe, they don't need to be perfect

- It's a low-value enough use of images that you'd probably never commission a human artist to do them; instead you'd either use stock photos, or skip having images completely

- The nature of header images for a tech blog tends toward the abstract/surreal, which means it's either hard to find the right stock images, or the ones you do find will be super abstract to the point of being boring

All of these make it a great use of the technology

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by jedberg »

brundolf wrote: post #72
pyrolistical wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right. So a CDN?

A CDN is its own thing- it's distributed across a provider; it can't just be served off a simple box. It requires having or gaining familiarity with a specific provider, as well as other constraints like you have to statically export to the file system (can't just cache responses in memory), and you can't have any dynamic content without standing up a separate server, etc Makes sense for a lot of things, but it comes…

That's not at all true. A CDN is a content delivery network. There is nothing that says it isn't a network of a single host on the same machine as the original content.

It's just a cache that returns content faster than the original content.

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by [deleted] »

sfink wrote: post #86

Ugh, this immediately drives home the realization that representative images are soon going to be devalued and useless, to the point that we'll all be ignoring them soon. Possibly even stripping them with ad blockers or similar tools. I actually think it's really awesome to be able to do this with a series of blog posts, and even if you look past the stylistic inconsistencies and oddities, this particular usage is go…

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Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by gbrindisi »

jedberg wrote: post #98

> Maybe it was because this was my first attempt, but with 100 more posts to go, I hoped I could get better with practice. It would be super cool to just feed DALL-E a whole blog post and have something great pop out, but even with some GPT-3 magic we probably aren’t there yet. I see a business opportunity here. Feed text into GPT-3 and have it generate DALL-E prompts to make appropriate images. Then you have it do t…

Already done: https://medium.com/@glan1k/dall-e-gpt-3-d1aaaff38639

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by dsmmcken »

dsmmcken wrote: post #7
sbf501 wrote: post #6

You should've invested in CloudFront first because your site isn't loading.

I know. I wasn't actually expecting to hit front-page. Trying to reinforce it best I can.

For reference, it's a fully static site on a low-end shared host. The post had quite a few images, which were pngs from DALL-E, but I've just now recompressed as smaller jpg.

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by WheelsAtLarge »

>"While the role of the artist isn’t going away soon, the role of stock image sites might disappear. "

Not, yet. While it's cheap relative to stock images, it's time consuming to generate exactly what you want. Prices for stock images will collapse for the common quick to use images but the price for the specialized high end images will hold their value or even increase in value. Those historical and such images will continue to be valuable.

It will be interesting to see if a specialized job will rise where people will get paid to generate just the right image. It might be called "A.I. image artist " This individual will generate an image with an A.I. but use graphic tools to finalize it for use.

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by andybak »

thrown_22 wrote: post #50
ravenstine wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's coming for us, too. It won't be long before most software engineer positions are eliminated while some are replaced by software "technicians" with enough expertise to command AI to generate working code. Perhaps the technicians will be tasked with building tests and some automation, but even that stuff can be delegated to AI to an extent. This may seem far off because the present economy is accustomed to paying…

AI has been over promising and under delivering for 50 years. There's a reason why the general models aren't being released. The second you look under the hood and start poking the unhappy paths you see that it doesn't understand anything and you're talking to something dumber than a hamster.

There's a weird tension between people who say saying "AI is overblown" and people who say "this is the most magical thing I've seen in my lifetime".

I lean towards the latter but with a healthy dose of "it's deeply weird and hard to get anything useful from". But that doesn't make it any less magical.

And no - it's not "intelligent" in any human sense.

But I can't relate to people who pooh-pooh it as if there's nothing exciting happening. Either they are deliberately cultivating a dismissive air, or they are deeply jaded and weary.

EDIT - There's a 3rd option. People are making a rhetorical point because they perceive a need to correct an imbalance in the general mood. This is actually the most likely explanation and is often under-appreciated as motivator in public statements. I've noticed it in myself frequently.

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