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

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Post by LegitShady »

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

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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.

Legally its still unclear if the image can be copyrighted. If you use it commercially, others may be able to use the same images if they’re generated by DALL-E.

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

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Post by hackerlight »

dougmwne wrote: post #327
hackerlight wrote: post #311

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I would be upset, but that is separate to the question posed of whether we should be trying to innovate and automate. The answer is that innovation and productivity should be sought, even though it's understandably not fun for the people whose skills are being commoditized in the moment. At no point in history was it a good idea to purposefully stop innovation just to preserve some job that was about to be automated.…

And that is all well and good until the pace of automation outstrips the community's ability to absorb the externality. Then it's not going to be the AI dream future, but heads on spikes. We have hit those points in history before.

When has the pace of automation outstripped the ability for the economy to provide near full employment?

Besides. Even if true, the answer isn't to stop innovating.

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

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Post by autoexec »

antioppressor wrote: post #309
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.

I'm hoping websites eventually accept that forcing everyone to scroll past a bunch of useless barely (if at all) relevant images to reach content isn't making their sites better.

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

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Post by trention »

kache_ wrote: post #325
trention wrote: post #301

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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.

some software engineers spend most of their time designing, communicating with other teams, and managing operations. It becomes the case as you get more experienced, depending on your staff engineer path.

This is a truism that every senior engineer understands. There is no way to get below 10% coding unless you move into people management/product. At this point, you are no longer a SWE (except by title, maybe).

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

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Post by amelius »

jdminhbg wrote: post #143
amelius wrote: post #127

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> 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. Yeah, but that part can be learned by anyone without a CS degree. Perhaps not everything in software can be automated, but I could see a team of 10 programmers be replaced by 1 person (programmer or not) skillful enough to control a bunch of AI software…

A tool that 10xs programmer productivity will if anything lead to higher demand for programmers, because we're nowhere close to developing 1/10 of the total software the world demands.

Perhaps, but that would be an indirect consequence.

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Post by tough »

cowmix wrote: post #25

I'll wait to read it when it actually comes up but until then I have to say when I finally got access to the DallE2 beta, I was underwhelmed. The mini-Dalle, while not as good in the image fidelity department, is much more fun.

The beta is publicly available now, everyone has to pay tho

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

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Post by kache_ »

trention wrote: post #334
kache_ wrote: post #325

Earlier quoted context omitted.

some software engineers spend most of their time designing, communicating with other teams, and managing operations. It becomes the case as you get more experienced, depending on your staff engineer path.

This is a truism that every senior engineer understands. There is no way to get below 10% coding unless you move into people management/product. At this point, you are no longer a SWE (except by title, maybe).

this thread is funny because I ended up spending my whole day yesterday and today heads down coding

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

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Post by l33tman »

goopthink wrote: post #304
l33tman wrote: post #266

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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, becau…

Absolutely, but it's the output of the human (or AI) that plagiarizes that might be ethically wrong or illegal when used in certain ways, not the human (or AI) reading the input documents in the first place.
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