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Re: Bing Image Creator

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Post by creativenolo »

izzydata wrote: post #66
creativenolo wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To me, you need something so you search for it. I need an image, I will search to get it.

Is creating an image a substitute for searching for an existing image?

No. But they are different. I myself may search for an image when I don’t have the will or need to create. Or, as a precursor to a creation. It’s the difference between searching an archive or stock photo site vs opening a graphics program.

To me, the interesting differentiation is from thinking a search engine being something than indexes information or a product that provides solutions to peoples problems and needs with a single point of entry. (Like why people type URLs into google search)

We’ve had search engines return the weather, or calculate a sum, for some time. It seems an obvious evolution for it to create solutions for users given lay users are probably already typing what they want into search.

Re: Bing Image Creator

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Post by pxtail »

ren_engineer wrote: post #8

I feel like website owners are going to have to block Bing's crawler soon. They are effectively remixing content from multiple sites using AI to create knowledge panels that reduce clicks to the actual websites. Not sure how this dynamic will work long term if it keeps going, Bing and Google are going to kill off a lot of websites and then will have nothing to scrape for content

Agree, I think that sooner or later brands and advertisers will need to pay to get results included directly in the models output, websites will be completely skipped. This will have a lot of repercussions - giants will probably have offer to put data in the model directly somehow but I doubt it will be free.

I'm wondering if paywalling the content would be right move for someone who has popular website with curated, high quality knowledge and audience - this may work only for some time because discoverability will tank, traffic and current audience dry out..

Re: Bing Image Creator

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Post by dgellow »

Kiro wrote: post #30
IanCal wrote: post #15

I asked GPT a while back to pick a theme to explore in 5 art pieces, it picked mental health and one it decided it liked was "the weight of anxiety". SD didn't really capture it very well IMO, this does. Here's the results https://www.bing.com/images/create/title3a-the-weight-of-anx... https://www.bing.com/images/create/title3a-the-weight-of-anx... https://www.bing.com/images/create/title3a-the-weight-of-anx... https…

Funny that the sentiment on HN around this is so toxic and hateful that you need to explicitly justify something that is obviously extremely cool.

I find this terrifying honestly. Exciting and cool, but also terrifying.

Re: Bing Image Creator

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Post by dgellow »

onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #74
es7 wrote: post #53

I tried this out today and was very impressed by the results. Remember when DALLE came out less than a year ago and people were amazed by the avocado armchair? Between this and Midjourney v5, the quality of AI generated art is rapidly approaching human level and I can see it getting there very soon.

Midjourney, DALL-E, and many of these generative AIs have reached human-level for a long time. The problem is - unlike a human - it's pretty hard to get them to do something close to what you have in mind. Sure, if you try a few dozen prompts - you'll probably eventually get something close to what you want. And considering the cost of this will approach free - it's going to be hard for artists to compete. I tried ge…

Have you tried Stable Diffusion + controlnet? That gives you lot of control over the output. You can generate a simple shape in blender, expert it’s depth map, then feed your model. Or draw a sketch, or use a normal map, or a combination of all of this.

I got some great results today when experimenting with it: https://twitter.com/dgellow/status/1638496715056480259?s=20

Re: Bing Image Creator

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Post by cubefox »

sangnoir wrote: post #133
cubefox wrote: post #120

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Don't you notice that the face looks messed up? Whatever forces the change in skin color seems to also degrade image quality.

> Whatever forces the change in skin color seems to also degrade image quality. Your statement is both authoritative and non-specific:why are you certain about the causality and that there is a force other than the training data and PRNG seed?

PRNG?

Re: Bing Image Creator

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Post by nico »

yazaddaruvala wrote: post #116
nico wrote: post #57

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> This is like saying, the transportation of has massive power to censor where people can travel about within a bus. They in fact do and land value (hence real estate), is deeply impacted by transportation reach and frequency decisions. It also creates a corruption issue with businesses trying to influence politicians to make changes in their favor.

> They in fact do and My point is nothing your saying is new or specific to OpenAI. These are problems with Capitalism and its influence over populations. It is an important conversation, but a distinct and orthogonal conversation that is distracted by involving AI.

How is it orthogonal when AI will make these issues worse?

AI is already producing massive inequality between the people that are using it today and people who aren’t.

This difference is only going to increase. And very few people are going to be the winners, a lot (most) of people are going to be the losers.

It’s going to have a very deep impact in society, faster than we can prepare for.

Re: Bing Image Creator

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Post by [deleted] »

dvngnt_ wrote: post #135
dangus wrote: post #134

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Yes, it would be okay. In fact, it’s the status quo. Here are examples that mirror your situation that don’t involve AI at all: - I walk into a public library. I ask for the erotica section. The librarian tells me that this library doesn’t carry erotica, and if I ask about it again my library card will be revoked. Then I ask about it again, and my library card is revoked (this is exactly what you did). Now everyone e…

No public library is revoking your library card for asking twice when they deal with actual homeless people watching actual pornography. LinkedIn doesn't have any policy against discussing adult literature https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7039967... this person just got a job at an AI company that generates erotica and sends shots at openai your 3rd and 4th example is actually illegal so consequen…

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Re: Bing Image Creator

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Post by aftalavera »

Ethan_Mick wrote: post #51

So, currently OpenAI's Dalle-2 gives me: "The server is overloaded right now, please try again later." I guess all their compute power is going to power this. And even now the Bing generation is taking a long time. Definitely seems like their having scaling issues at the moment.

Learn to code everybody!

Re: Bing Image Creator

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Post by sangnoir »

cubefox wrote: post #145
sangnoir wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Whatever forces the change in skin color seems to also degrade image quality. Your statement is both authoritative and non-specific:why are you certain about the causality and that there is a force other than the training data and PRNG seed?

PRNG?

Pseudo-random number generator
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