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

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Post by trention »

kache_ wrote: post #291
trention wrote: post #168

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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

Well, you will lose but I basically don't believe your claim is anything more than hyperbolic bullshit as no one who is working as a SWE is actually spending only 1% of their time programming as per your initial comment.

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Post by the_af »

adgjlsfhk1 wrote: post #223
the_af wrote: post #172

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I don't understand your assertion. Neither game developers nor artists are in any danger of being automated by AI. Until Copilot can make the game you want, you cannot replace developers. And until you think AI is ready to replace artists in general, you won't be able to automate game artists. That's not to say a game with assets largely drawn by AI, and heavily assisted by Copilot, wouldn't be a cool artistic experi…

assets seem quite possibly ai generatable in the near future. you won't be using AI for the important things yet, but a AA or AAA game has a ton of random assets where for random crap that doesn't matter, but that you need to make the world feel full. that seems like a perfect use of AI assets.

Depends on which kinds of assets. You don't even need AI; plenty of games feature procedurally generated levels, art and even enemies.

This hasn't put game developers out of a job.

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

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Post by anotherevan »

ziddoap wrote: post #300
anotherevan wrote: post #159

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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 re…

You're right. I definitely worded that poorly. My distaste for animated gifs that are _meant_ to be funny, but I find sensorially painful and detracting rather than enhancing definitely leaves me in poor humour.

All in favour of animations that explain things and definitely enjoy a well-placed joke or anecdote.

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Post by goopthink »

l33tman wrote: post #266
zarzavat wrote: post #218

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Nobody knows whether or not training a NN is fair use. If it were ruled to be not fair use then it would basically shut down a large chunk of ML research in the US, as it's not just Copilot that is training on copyrighted data. All the large language models require copyrighted data such as web crawls as there is just not enough public domain material around. So even if you are right, and courts rule that training is…

As a tangent... a human being who reads up on websites (that are not explicitly in the public domain) is in essence also "training" themselves on that data. It would be really short-sighted (and impossible to start with) to forbid an AI to read it if a human is allowed..

But even human-generated work has all sort of domain-specific “fair use” rules to comply with, including plagiarism (academia), open source licensing (code), attribution for generative works (CC) and so on. People who make too closely generative works are scrutinized and face social and business pressures (art, law).

Today’s ML output throws everything into a mixer and then blanket-calls it ML-generated output, because the original training content has been separated from the social and legal frameworks that govern it.

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Post by kortex »

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?

No, I'm getting it from wikipedia. It has nothing (directly) to do with Cloudflare or any other commercial interests - bittorrent is a content delivery network. You could run a private CDN. The whole purpose is moving the data to be consumed away from some centralized primary host, to nodes which are more proximal to the data consumer (either spatially, or solely in terms of bandwidth, torrent bandwidth is decoupled from the primary server). Bittorrent sort of automatically works out "proximity" by pulling from the highest bandwidth seeders. Also it's geographically distributed, providing redundancy and availability, which is arguably the more important part than proximity.

I think the criteria are that it a) delivers/distributes content b) is a network, implying multiple nodes c) lowers the latency and/or bandwidth cost of data consumption, by d) leveraging geographically distributed redundancy and/or proximity. I think the key feature is geographically distributed redundancy which differentiates it from a regular cache.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network

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Post by antioppressor »

sgtFloyd wrote: post #193
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 sunk ~20 hours and $100 playing with DALL-E since last week and I've had a very different experience. Sure--my first dozen attempts with the engine gave bad results, but once I learned to "speak its language" it got easier to generate highly-polished images. The most realistic results come by appending things like "realistic photograph, 4k, in the style of a fashion magazine" to prompts. I suppose any style would w…

Well, for 100 bucks you feel satisfied. That's what counts :DDDDDDDDDDDDDD.

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Post by antioppressor »

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…

Oh people don't realize that all those movies/series about dystopian societies were blueprints for the elite.

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Post by fiat_fandango »

I assume those who currently have access to DALL.E 2 are legally prevented from selling second-hand use of their access? I'm currently on the waitlist and I've been curious if there's any way to bill access like this as "design consulting" or something?

Posts like this are absolutely fascinating!

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Post by antioppressor »

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…

Oh jesus. 99,5 percent of sites use terrible, bland, uninteresting images. Like people have no sense of beauty at all. Now people will use these horrible abominations that DALLE shits out, well, a very nice and bright future is ahead of us :D.

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Post by antioppressor »

vbezhenar wrote: post #141
Bjorkbat wrote: post #129

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And digital artists aren't still pretty low on your ranking? I don't know, after all the predictions about self-driving cars, I'm cautious. Especially considering that back then, it almost seemed obvious that we'd have self-driving cars by now. Cars were certainly capable of driving themselves back in 2016, it just seemed like we needed to iron out a few kinks. How long could that possibly take? Now, I have no idea w…

Self-driving cars are reality for a few years already. Issue is with laws and people, much less with tech.

Plus the approach. I'm not sure we need AI at all for self driving.
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