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

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Post by iroh2727 »

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…

Yep. My analogy for this kind of effect is McDonald’s (and other fast or prepackaged food). Fast food never eclipsed good food because, well, it’s not that good. But it spreads. It’s just the result of unfettered capitalism (tech is no different in this regard to any other industry).

But it’s also a culture thing…like people trying to convince us that mediocre stuff is good or cool. I mean in this case it’s new because a machine is doing it, but what are OpenAI’s real economic motivations behind all their press releases I wonder…?

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

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Post by wyager »

vient wrote: post #89
wyager wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Should work fine. I personally avoided using a reverse proxy like nginx or apache because they tend to have a ton of vulnerabilities (check out the CVE database results for "nginx"), making them a security management headache.

Any serious vulnerability in NGINX will be big news since it is so widespread. CVE database shows some entries by searching for "nginx" but I looked at all 2022 entries and the only ones affecting NGINX itself are in NJX plugin so actually not affecting NGINX core functionality. https://nginx.org/en/security_advisories.html shows one "medium severity" vulnerability in the last 4 years.

Huh, guess I haven't really checked on this since mid-early 2010s. Was a lot worse back then.

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

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Post by markdown »

jdminhbg wrote: post #19
thenerdhead wrote: post #15

What service did they use for $45? Is this legal to include in published works too like a book?

From the Dall-E terms of use: > Use of Images. Subject to your compliance with these terms and our Content Policy, you may use Generations for any legal purpose, including for commercial use. This means you may sell your rights to the Generations you create, incorporate them into works such as books, websites, and presentations, and otherwise commercialize them.

They must be well-funded if they're leaving money on the table like this. I'd pay a few a dollars for commercial use.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

ravenstine wrote: post #12
superchroma wrote: post #2

When asked about what jobs the robots would come for first, I would have had to say that digital artist was pretty low on my ranking before now.

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…

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

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Post by Rodeoclash »

Kranar wrote: post #77
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.

I find the images to be incredible, but it's very unsettling when you focus on certain details like hands, feet, and eyes. The hands and feet that it draws are almost always mangled, and while it does a good job of drawing an individual eye, it doesn't seem to draw two eyes in a well coordinated manner, either one eye is bigger than the other, or there is something weirdly unsymmetrical about the eyes that makes the…

I have a great example of this:

"Jesus takes a selfie" - https://imgur.com/a/togE2ko

I'm pretty sure this snap was three days after the resurrection.

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

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Post by WheelsAtLarge »

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.

I'm with you. I would hate to see these images all over the place -many are just unpleasant to see.

The cover image generated for the cosmopolitan cover is stunning at first but after seeing it a few times it begins to feel uncomfortable to look at. The uncanny valley is alive and well in many of these images.

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

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Post by amildie »

ravenstine wrote: post #12
superchroma wrote: post #2

When asked about what jobs the robots would come for first, I would have had to say that digital artist was pretty low on my ranking before now.

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…

I don't think we'll see this in our lifetimes.

For that scenario to be possible, general AI needs to be developed first.

A huge (and awful) part of software engineering is figuring out what exactly the stakeholders want you to build or fix. Sometimes, they themselves don't even know.

Dealing with ambiguos jira tickets, poorly reported bugs, non-existent requirements, missing or outdated documentation; these are the "common problems" in building software. Current AI technology isn't even close to being able to sort these types of problems today, and it won't be until a monumental breakthrough in the field is achieved.

Generating art is "easy" in the sense that art can't be wrong or right, it just is.

Generating the backend of a streaming platform? I'd like to live long enough to see it.

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

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Post by andreyk »

WheelsAtLarge wrote: post #109

>"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…

Agreed - having played around with DALL-E 2 a fair bit and having made a lot of usage of stock images over the years (for blog posts with specific subjects), I would say the former takes more work/time than the latter. With stock images I can just do a quick search on Shutterstock and find a lot of high quality options (usually), whereas with DALL-E 2 I need to figure out the exact prompt I want and iterate on it for a while. Stock images are not that expensive -- if you buy many it's as low as $2 per image, or on the high end (if you pay to just download a few per month) it's more like $10 per image. It does cost more, but time is money, so...

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Post by skunkworker »

ravenstine wrote: post #12
superchroma wrote: post #2

When asked about what jobs the robots would come for first, I would have had to say that digital artist was pretty low on my ranking before now.

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…

I am personally bearish on this assumption unless a few hurdles are reached. Being a software engineer involves a lot of translation of intent from a required feature into an efficient and maintainable implementation.

In a good number of cases it is more difficult to communicate what needs to be built rather than actually building the end product.

The recent work with DALL-E 2 echos a similar problem, coming up with a descriptive prompt can be difficult to do and needs fine tuning to be done. Not unlike trying to communicate with a graphic designer your expected intentions and giving similar works to draw from.

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Post by paulcole »

andreyk wrote: post #118
WheelsAtLarge wrote: post #109

>"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…

Agreed - having played around with DALL-E 2 a fair bit and having made a lot of usage of stock images over the years (for blog posts with specific subjects), I would say the former takes more work/time than the latter. With stock images I can just do a quick search on Shutterstock and find a lot of high quality options (usually), whereas with DALL-E 2 I need to figure out the exact prompt I want and iterate on it for…

Time is only money if you someone will pay you for your time. If that’s not true, then it’s just a good excuse to spend your money when you could (in some cases should) be spending your time.
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