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I realize dang has already tagged this (and I get it) but I don’t know who is actually benefiting from this. This is deceptive as it doesn’t represent a traveler’s actual/expected experience and just adds more slop to the pile. This is a case where you should pay actual photographers to take verified pictures of the places you are recommending people visit. Why would someone cheapen their brand like this?
> Take a freeform query (like ‘sfo->jfk’) and turn it into a ‘place’
> Build a database of ‘places’ -> pictures
> Build a software system that can take a ‘place’, look it up in a database and spit out the right picture – even if that ‘place’ isn’t in the database
[stub for offtopicness] [sorry I messed up with that title! perils of not reading the articles closely]
The headline (currently: “Trying to craft AI images that are worth displaying to end users” ) is misleading and changed from the original. Author isn’t crafting any AI images; they’re using AI in tandem with manual work to help choose from a set of human-authored images.
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the article doesn't talk about AI generating photos. it talks about using AI to interpret user queries into photo selections from photographers
The post title here is extremely misleading. Per HN standards, the post should use the original title, "How to turn 'sfo-jfk' into a beautiful photo"
[sorry I messed up with that title! perils of not reading the articles closely]
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I’m not sure it’s good idea to use AI for this purpose. When you’re talking about travel, you’re talking about a real place. If you show something photorealistic and AI generated, what is shown is simply an illusion. If you use a cartoon style maybe they can work because the user will immediately understand what is shown is not a photograph.
the article doesn't talk about AI generating photos. it talks about using AI to interpret user queries into photo selections from photographers
This sort of thing will kill the graphic design industry.
But that’s the bitter lesson I guess, unless there’s a reason to go fully local (extreme privacy concerns, offline use, etc) training a custom model just isn’t worth it over using some cloud api offering, even if it is orders of magnitude more compute that _somebody_ is paying for in the end