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

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Post by mrtksn »

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.

The results tend to be residents in the uncanny valley. They are nice if you want something unsettling. They are very impressive, can be very aesthetically pleasing(especially with midjourney) but they look very alien.

Maybe part of the reason we are so impressed with those is because they break our perception of reality. It looks like the renaissance statues that are made from marble but looks like cloth.

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Post by jstummbillig »

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…

> While it's cheap relative to stock images, it's time consuming to generate exactly what you want

My dall-e experience is very limited but looking for the right photo out of many is a very time consuming process, at least at designer level.

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Post by rockbruno »

markdown wrote: post #113
jdminhbg wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It takes several tries to generate something actually meaningful, so they're definitely making money by having people buy credits to run it

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Post by scbrg »

woojoo666 wrote: post #208
powersnail wrote: post #204

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> 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

Those metrics imply that what images are being used is completely irrelevant. Either that's true, and we could all just use the same photo everywhere (I suggest the one of St. IGNUcious, Your Mileage May Obviously Not Vary - all hail the irrefutable and infallible 2.3x metrics!) or it could still be true that a "super generic stock photo at the beginning of an article" is, indeed, pointless.

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Post by dan_mctree »

boredtofears wrote: post #190
egypturnash wrote: post #177

God it’s so fucking depressing to see all you techies debating whether or not the skill I have dedicated my life to getting good enough at to earn a quiet, modest living with should be automated away or not. And insisting that surely your jobs are too special and complex for this to ever happen to you. At least I can take solace in the fact that for now these things aren’t gonna be taking a bite out of the furry art…

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.

Have you seen the Dall-E outputs? If anything they do better than the vast majority of artists in terms of originality. Sure there's probably some people out there who can do better, but no where near the amount of people employed in the field today.

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Post by [deleted] »

smugma wrote: post #153
Sebb767 wrote: post #148

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> It will be interesting to see if a specialized job will rise where people will get paid to generate just the right image. I don't think so. People just need the result, so the AI will simply become a tool of the trade and you won't have any more AI image engineers than you have dedicated Photoshop artists right now.

I think the point of differentiation is that being adept at Photoshop is a relatively advanced and specialized skill. Manipulating an AI prompt to get what you want is also a specialized skill, but may require an order of magnitude or two less training, or obviate the need for the job entirely. An art director for a campaign wants a set of images created, and a set of stock photos used. They may have a junior person…

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Post by ly3xqhl8g9 »

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

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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?…

A plane flies and is nothing like a bird.

Most likely, the APP-E or GAME-E, given a prompt generate an application or game, will not generate C++/JavaScript/Swift/Kotlin but directly target the pixel space, running in a 60+ FPS loop a single "function" such as `nextFrame(currentState)`.

It will probably be here in the next few years: write a prompt such as "2D game like Mario but with butterflies" and receive a 2GB blob which opens a window accepting inputs and changing the pixels accordingly. Or, something more serious, a prompt like "invoicing application following the laws of France, Material Design, store the database in AWS using ". APP-E or GAME-E doesn't need to totally replace software development, just be good enough to replace in 99% of use cases.

Bugs/tests could probably be solved by some mechanism for injecting localized prompts: given an already generated binary, fine tune it accordingly to a list of other prompts.

As for deployment, it's already pretty much solved with the CI/CD solutions galore all around, not sure why you would need generative statistics for it.

What DALL-E offers is a glimpse of the next 30 years, and probably 99% of the infrastructure required to run it to its full potential is not here yet. Just as in 1992 (3 years after the HTTP proposal, but 2 years before the launch of Netscape) there were only glimpses of what a connected world would look like.

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Post by forgotpwd16 »

jedberg wrote: post #146
kortex wrote: post #144

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Nope, that's just a proxy/cache. > A content delivery network, or content distribution network, is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers. The goal is to provide high availability and performance by distributing the service spatially relative to end users. Emphasis mine. CDN implies some sort of edge-hosting topology (or at least more-proximal than the main servers).

Not sure why you think CDN implies geographically distributed edge hosting. Are you getting that from Cloudflare's marketing? A company that sells a geographically distributed network?

CDN is a term used for years before Cloudflare was funded[0][1] to mean exactly that. Specifically[0]:

>CDNs act as trusted overlay networks that offer high-performance delivery of common Web objects, static data, and rich multimedia content by distributing content load among servers that are close to the clients.

and:

>CDNs first emerged in 1998 to address the fact that the Web was not designed to handle large content transmissions over long distances.

[0]: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1250586

[1]: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-540-77887-5

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

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Post by gjs278 »

egypturnash wrote: post #177

God it’s so fucking depressing to see all you techies debating whether or not the skill I have dedicated my life to getting good enough at to earn a quiet, modest living with should be automated away or not. And insisting that surely your jobs are too special and complex for this to ever happen to you. At least I can take solace in the fact that for now these things aren’t gonna be taking a bite out of the furry art…

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