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Re: Spent $15 in DALL·E 2 credits creating this AI image

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Post by speedgoose »

Karawebnetwork wrote: post #6

I was curious to compare results with Craiyon.ai Here is "llama in a jersey dunking a basketball like Michael Jordan, shot from below, tilted frame, 35°, Dutch angle, extreme long shot, high detail, dramatic backlighting, epic, digital art": https://imgur.com/a/7LoAtRx Here is "Llama in a jersey dunking a basketball like Michael Jordan, screenshots from the Miyazaki anime movie", much worst: https://imgur.com/a/g99G7…

Craiyon did step up a lot in its understanding recently. The image quality is still not the best but it if you ignore the blurriness, the scary faces, and the weird shapes, it can sometimes be better than dall.e.

Re: Spent $15 in DALL·E 2 credits creating this AI image

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Post by mFixman »

_pastel wrote: post #68

If you're interested in browsing creative prompts, I highly recommend the reddit community at r/dalle2. Some are impressive: - www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/uzosy1/the_rest_of_mona_lisa - www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/vstuns/super_mario_getting_his_citizenship_at_ellis And others are hilarious: - www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/v0pjfr/a_photograph_of_a_street_sign_that_warns_drivers - www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/c…

My favourite one is Kermit the Frog in the style of different movies.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/v1sc2z/kermit_the_f...

Re: Spent $15 in DALL·E 2 credits creating this AI image

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Post by dougmwne »

kube-system wrote: post #65
dougmwne wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yesterday I saw one of Gandalf eating samples at Costco. I was laughing hysterically for a minute. AI is not supposed to have a sense of humor. That was supposed to be the last province of the human, but it is quite awhile since a human made me laugh like that.

It's funny in the way that mad libs are funny. It's unexpected. The reason it is unexpected is because the computer is dumb, not because it is smart.

I think the humor came from the vibe, humiliation, dejection. Like seeing a beloved math teacher caught in an adult video store.

I also saw this one recently from Midjourney. Would not call the humor random.

https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/w73rhv/prompt_t...

Re: Spent $15 in DALL·E 2 credits creating this AI image

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Post by tough »

pigtailgirl wrote: post #42
prashp wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You like your lobsters

-- they're the little lobsters we have over here (アカザエ)! - quite expensive - very good =) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metanephrops_japonicus --

They reminded me of this little guys we have in the med https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephrops_norvegicus

Re: Spent $15 in DALL·E 2 credits creating this AI image

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Post by sebringj »

The images remind me of one of my dreams where logic and reasoning are thrown out and the pure gist of the thing is taken. I wonder if it is because it is built with vector operations and calculus to determine the closest match or fuzzy matches for essentially everything it eventually determines sans cognition, things would tend to be more fuzzy or quasi-close but not quite there. Very entertaining post.

I have my own api key as well but not with DALL-E 2 access just yet but seems similar in terms of prompting text in stages to get what you want. It feels kind of like negotiating with it in some way.

Re: Spent $15 in DALL·E 2 credits creating this AI image

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Post by grumbel »

jfk13 wrote: post #58
karaterobot wrote: post #20

I ran into this too. When I got my invite, I told a friend I would learn how to talk to DALL-E by having it make some concept art for the game he was designing. I ran through all of my free credits, and most of the first $15 bucket and never really got anything usable. Even when I re-used the exact prompts from the DALL-E Prompt Book, I didn't get anything near the level of quality and fidelity to the prompt that the…

I suspect that many of the "impressive" examples that we see from tools like this have been carefully selected by human curators. I'm sure it's not at the level of "monkeys + typewriters = Shakespeare [if you're sufficiently selective]", but the general idea is still applicable.

Most of DALL-E2 output is great out of the box, the selection process is just fine tuning the results to create something the human in front of the computer likes. DALL-E2 can't mindread, so the image produced might not match what the human had in mind.

There is however one thing to be aware of, the titles posted on /r/dalle2/ and other places are often not the prompts that DALL-E2 got. Instead they are a fun description of the image done by a human after the fact. Random example:

"Chased by an amongus segway"

* https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/wkv7za/chased_by_an...

But the actual prompt was:

"Award winning photo of a mole driving a red off road car through a field"

* https://labs.openai.com/s/xnaoxiWeSjiQX1QyVUCHGkl1

Which is quite a bit less impressive, as the actual prompt doesn't really match the image very well. And if you put "Chased by an amongus segway" into DALL-E2, you won't get an image of that quality either.

Re: Spent $15 in DALL·E 2 credits creating this AI image

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Post by outworlder »

sebringj wrote: post #86

The images remind me of one of my dreams where logic and reasoning are thrown out and the pure gist of the thing is taken. I wonder if it is because it is built with vector operations and calculus to determine the closest match or fuzzy matches for essentially everything it eventually determines sans cognition, things would tend to be more fuzzy or quasi-close but not quite there. Very entertaining post. I have my ow…

> The images remind me of one of my dreams (...)

A lot of dreams scenery seems to throw logic and reasoning out of the window. Even small sensory inputs can make a huge difference to a dream sequence. And in many case they don't make sense even in the context of the dream.

I haven't personally experienced any hallucinations myself, but some DALL-E images seem awfully familiar to what some people describe.

I know that comparisons between brains and machine learning (including neural networks) are superficial at best, but I still wonder if DALL-E is mimicking, in its own way, a portion of our larger brain processing 'pipeline'.

Re: Spent $15 in DALL·E 2 credits creating this AI image

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Post by bpye »

upupandup wrote: post #35
tambourine_man wrote: post #32

> It’s important to tell DALL·E 2 exactly what you want That’s not as easy as it sounds. Specially in the surreal cases that DALL-E is usually requested. Sometimes you don’t know what you want until you see it. Other times you do, but are not able to express in ways that the computer can understand. I see being able to communicate efficiently with the machine as a future in demand skill

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I suspect this is a joke, but I did find that it was a little overzealous with the filtering. I was trying to get someone (not a specific person) shouting or with an angry expression, and a few prompts I came up with were blocked. Not banned though.

Re: Spent $15 in DALL·E 2 credits creating this AI image

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Post by simias »

I'm usually very much a skeptic when it comes to "revolutionary" tech. I think the blockchain is crap. I think fully self-driving cars are still a long way away. I think that VR and the metaverse are going to remain gimmicks in the foreseeable future.

But this DALL-E thing, it's really blowing my mind. That and deep fakes, now that's sci-fi tech. It's both exciting and a bit scary.

The idea that in the not so far future one will be able to create images (and I presume later, audio and video) of basically anything with just a simple text prompt is rife with potential (both good and bad). It's going to change the way we look at art, it's also going to give incredibly powerful creative tools to the masses.

For me the endgame would be an AI sufficiently advanced that one could prompt "make an episode of Seinfeld that centers around deep fakes" and you'd get an episode virtually indistinguishable from a real one. Home-made, tailor-made entertainment. Terrifyingly amazing. See you in a few decades...

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