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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 boredtofears »

egypturnash wrote: post #191
boredtofears wrote: post #190

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Wait until the world becomes oversaturated with AI generated imagery and then make a killing when people realize that real artists can actually produce something original.

I can only hope that this doesn’t happen after it has become impossible for young artists to make enough money with almost-pro work to be able to get in enough practice to become pros worth paying for. Finding your particular creative voice is a long process; the Internet opened up a lot of opportunities for people to do that. I also hope this oversaturation doesn’t happen while I’m still alive, or that it happens as…

I sympathize greatly because I think over the short term it's going to be worse all around for artists. I think anything that gets chucked into the ML wood-chipper is going to get old fast.

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

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Post by zionic »

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…

>Prices for stock horses will collapse for the common quick to use horses but the price for the specialized high end horses will hold their value or even increase in value.

This was all true when cars became a thing. What’s the market cap of horse production companies before and after?

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

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Post by powersnail »

brundolf wrote: post #103

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 t…

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

I dislike super generic stock photo at the beginning of an article. It’s completely pointless, sometimes aesthetically unpleasant, often disconnected with the actual content, and hence a distraction.

If neither you nor the reader cares about the stock photo, why not just forsake the thumbnail or use your website’s logo?

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

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Post by agileAlligator »

throwaway0x7E6 wrote: post #197
OliverGilan wrote: post #165

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I use image thumbnails for my blog posts as well but they don't even show up in the article. Instead when the article is linked to on twitter or a message the thumbnail will show up. That's to say that this is pretty awesome and very valuable for a blog even if not used for cringy pop-gif stuff in the article.

but if that thumbnail is from an AI-generated image, it has no value. tech blogs don't need to follow the same practices as clickbait farms. the audience is very different

How would you even know it's AI generated at this point? Did you see the images generated by the author of the article? They might as well have been made by a human digital artist

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Post by bergenty »

trynewideas wrote: post #157
deltree7 wrote: post #155

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Also there is nothing preventing Stock Image Sites themselves using Dall-E to generate additional images. Heck they can use their own existing images for training (which the other's can't due to copyright issues) to increase the portfolio, but the Stock Image Sites can access free public images. So, counter-intuitively it may strengthen Stock Image Sites value

Considering how DALL-E is fed with so many stock images that it sometimes spontaneously generates specific stock image websites' watermarks on output,[1] this is the stupidest, blandest possible ouroboros. [1] https://twitter.com/kevin2kelly/status/1551964984325812224

Meh it’s still original artwork. It’s derivative ha.

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Post by bergenty »

password4321 wrote: post #167
deltree7 wrote: post #155

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Also there is nothing preventing Stock Image Sites themselves using Dall-E to generate additional images. Heck they can use their own existing images for training (which the other's can't due to copyright issues) to increase the portfolio, but the Stock Image Sites can access free public images. So, counter-intuitively it may strengthen Stock Image Sites value

> (which the other's can't due to copyright issues) Be sure to pass this along to Microsoft's GitHub Copilot.

Nope copilot is only trained on open source codebases.

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

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Post by woojoo666 »

powersnail wrote: post #204
brundolf wrote: post #103

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 t…

> The images just need to get across a vibe, they don't need to be perfect I dislike super generic stock photo at the beginning of an article. It’s completely pointless, sometimes aesthetically unpleasant, often disconnected with the actual content, and hence a distraction. If neither you nor the reader cares about the stock photo, why not just forsake the thumbnail or use your website’s logo?

It seems pointless but it works. Our monkey brains like aesthetics. From the article:

> Blog posts with images get 2.3x more engagement

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

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Post by a9h74j »

themodelplumber wrote: post #170
flir wrote: post #151

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Vocabularies are starting to appear. Something like a pattern language.

This means the result in the best-use case will be developing a suitable in-house pattern language. I'm sure Adobe's all over this since it's related to language arts and will be a more natural fit for the critical eye of a design & branding team. And probably still, downstream designers are going to be showing how they can convert DALL·E 2 imagery to polished finals. Especially after reviewing the blog post, it's re…

Not an artist, but (confirming against DeviantArt) with DALL-E etc it appears much lower cost to take bigger -- actually artistically more impressive -- risks. And dare I say more ego-less?

One thing I have wondered: what will these generators do to the corporate art market -- art bought in bulk for a hospital or office space. Will interior design specialists pick up prompt generation as an added skill?

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Post by andreyk »

paulcole wrote: post #120
andreyk wrote: post #118

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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.

True - I guess I meant "time is money" in the broader sense really (ie I have other things I would prefer to spend my time doing, whether paid or not).
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