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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 kache_ »

trention wrote: post #168
kache_ wrote: post #79

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programming is going to get automated with language models in however, I find that my job (SWE) is about 1% programming and 99% strategizing, designing & communicating.

Really? How much money are you willing to put on the claim "LLMs are going to produce >80% of newly written production code in 5 years"? If it's less than your yearly salary, then even you don't believe your own assertion.

For github & google, I'd put my own money on it being >80% in 5 years. Maybe not a whole year's salary though, I'm a big baller

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Post by ectopod »

lixtra wrote: post #241
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 other‘s can‘t due to copyright Apparently using copyrighted training data is okay in EU: Directive (EU) 2019/790 … on copyright and related rights Article 4 [1] [1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

That exception only applies when the license doesn't explicitly reserve the right. Open source licenses could be updated to prohibit use as training data, or at least to clarify the position.

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

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Post by dougmwne »

rullelito wrote: post #244
egypturnash wrote: post #186

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Please save this comment somewhere and read it to yourself when the successor to GitHub’s Copilot makes you start worrying about your ability to earn a living. Thanks in advance.

Why would this change anything? If I 'm not willing to do my job for the salary offered I have to change jobs. What is upsetting about this?

There absolutely nothing upsetting about that to the CEO of your company. I would expect the destruction of your lifetime of accumulated economic value at an age when you can’t possibly retrain to be able to support your previous lifestyle would be rather upsetting to you. Or if not then I would not call that a typical emotional response.

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

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Post by rkuykendall-com »

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…

The future of jobs is Celery Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maAFcEU6atk

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

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Post by aantix »

dmitriid wrote: post #233
aantix wrote: post #192

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Here's a vast catalog of Dall-E images and the prompts used to generate them. https://www.krea.ai/ Oh, and if you generate an image with Dall-E and there's a face that is distorted, you can use this tool to restore the facial features. https://arc.tencent.com/en/ai-demos/faceRestoration

> Here's a vast catalog of Dall-E images and the prompts used to generate them. https://www.krea.ai/ What a weird decision to only display prompts in the page title, and nowhere else on the page

Agree, it makes discovery tedious.

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Post by agileAlligator »

throwaway0x7E6 wrote: post #287
agileAlligator wrote: post #205

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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

they're great. but if you have no image relevant to an article to put in the header/thumbnail, what value does using a cringy stock photo or generic cutesy cartoon add? the infotainment/clickbait/gossip websites do that because they know their target audience. you don't need to do that on your tech blog

1. It will attract people by catching their attention

2. It will not affect clickthrough rates of people like you who don't like it

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

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Post by personalidea »

wardour wrote: post #296

What about royalties to the designers / artists that created the art being used to train these systems?

Every time an artist looks at a painting, gets inspiration from that experience and creates an image themselves, they need to pay royalties?

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

texaslonghorn5 wrote: post #125
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…

Would that be similar to a "prompt engineer" role?

Think people who think this is a job will be deluding themselves, eventually the magic of getting a good image or a bad image will just be a set of known good styles it generates at the start that you can then pick and choose from in the backend invisible to the actual thing you type. Same way how Dall-e 2 solves it's diversity issues.

The goal of OpenAI isn't to build a whole new industry of AI Artists, it's to make the AWS of creativity, which means it has to be so simple that you don't even need anyone who can write a good sentence. Just has to get good results from whatever they type.

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Post by ziddoap »

anotherevan wrote: post #159
throwaway0x7E6 wrote: post #132

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>The images just need to get across a vibe I can't speak for everyone, but with my own experience of reading (at least partially) a dozen or two technical articles almost every day for many years, pointless media is a hallmark of low quality. these days, I just immediately bail with Ctrl+W as soon as I encounter a twitter-pop-culture meme/gif in the header or anywhere near the top. sure, it does mean I skip the 5 out…

I almost always bail when I see animated gifs in a technical article. They are most often meant to add a touch of humour, so of questionable value to begin with, and I find them painfully distracting from the text I'm actually trying to read. “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

>They are most often meant to add a touch of humour, _so of questionable value to begin with_

This comes across as remarkably sad to me. Humor is of questionable value as a baseline?

To each their own, I suppose. I enjoy a technical article with animations that explain things, or a well-placed joke/humorous anecdote/etc. Especially in cases where the humor also supports a point or illustrates something. I tend to remember things better when they have some sort of emotional impact, and out of the emotional impacts possible (sad, angry, etc.) I definitely prefer joy, humor, etc.

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