> Politics will be influenced. You can't trust anything you see anymore I've been wondering for a while now if this will lead to an unexpected boon: perhaps people will be forced to pay attention to a speaker's content instead of simply who is speaking.
The problem with this is that you will never know who is actually speaking. Deep fakes are already a thing, but as they get better and more accessible we will approach a world where anyone can make anyone say anything and make it hyper believable. In that world, it will be very difficult to tell what is real.
The most interesting part, to me, of a release like this is the amount of "please don't abuse this technology" pleading. No licence will ever stop people from doing things that the licence says they can't. There will always be someone who digs into the internals and makes a version that does not respect your hopes and dreams. It's going to be bad. As I see it, within a couple years this tech will be so widespread and…
> Politics will be influenced. You can't trust anything you see anymore I've been wondering for a while now if this will lead to an unexpected boon: perhaps people will be forced to pay attention to a speaker's content instead of simply who is speaking.
Unfortunately a speaker's content can also be auto-generated now, at least for brief enough snippets. And that means the content can (and will) be optimized to appeal to a target segment much more than has ever been previously possible.
Is there any way to download this on my PC and run it offline? Something like a command-line tool like $ ./something "cow flying in space" > cow-in-space.png that runs with local-only data (i.e. no internet access, no DRM, no weird API keys, etc like pretty much every AI-related application i've seen recently) would be neat.
DALL-E 2 just got smoked. Anyone with a graphics card isn't going to pay to generate images, or have their prompts blocked because of the overly aggressive anti-abuse filter, or have to put up with the DALL-E 2 "signature" in the corner. It makes me wonder how OpenAI is going to work around this because this makes DALL-E 2 a very uncompetitive proposition. Except, of course, for people without graphics cards, but it'…
This, however, is unconditionally good for the end users. I expect OpenAI to lower their prices significantly quite soon.
In fact, they announced lower prices today, going into effect in September.
While neat, and no doubt impressive, it still utterly fails on prompts that should be completely reasonable to any sane human being/artist. Take something like "A cat dancing atop a cow, with utters that are made out of ar-15s that shoot lazer-beam confetti". A vivid description should be aroused in your head, and no doubt, I could imagine an artist have a lot of fun creating such a description... Alas, what the mode…
The referent of "utters" (sic) is ambiguous, so I can imagine a model having more difficulty with it than usual. Regardless, the current SOTA does need more specific and sometimes repetitive prompting than a human artist would, but it's surprising how much better results you can get from SOTA models with a bit of experience at prompt engineering.
This is, in part, what I'm trying to point out, it's an obvious typo given the context, and something that you or I would be able to pick up on, yet it completely breaks (it spit out a bunch of weird confetti cats for me). Perhaps I'm being a little harsh, but if it requires word-perfect tuning and prompt engineering, it speaks to something about the 'stupidity' of these models. It's a neat trick, but to call it anything in the realm of artificial intelligence is a bit of a joke.
Is there any way to download this on my PC and run it offline? Something like a command-line tool like $ ./something "cow flying in space" > cow-in-space.png that runs with local-only data (i.e. no internet access, no DRM, no weird API keys, etc like pretty much every AI-related application i've seen recently) would be neat.
Yes, clone the repo (https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion), download the weights and follow the readme for setting up a conda environment. I am presently doing so on my RTX 3080.
Yeah, the fact that these models are necessarily based on existing works leaves me hopeful that humans will remain the leaders in this space for the time being.
Human works are needed to create the initial datasets, but an increasing amount of models use generative feedback loops to create more training data. This layer can easily introduce novel styles and concepts without further human input. The time is coming where we will need to, as patrons, reevaluate our relationships with art. I fear art is returning to a patronage model, at least for now, as certainly an industry w…
For those who are lucky enough to make it, I foresee patronage as being much more stable than making art to sell to the masses/corporate ad contracts.
Is there any way to download this on my PC and run it offline? Something like a command-line tool like $ ./something "cow flying in space" > cow-in-space.png that runs with local-only data (i.e. no internet access, no DRM, no weird API keys, etc like pretty much every AI-related application i've seen recently) would be neat.
Yes, clone the repo ( https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion ), download the weights and follow the readme for setting up a conda environment. I am presently doing so on my RTX 3080.
I can't believe i sold my rtx2070 last month, aaargh...!