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I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

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Re: I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

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Look, it's trained on these images. It's really great and cool and all - but it's retrieving things that it was trained on. Show me something original it did.

Here's what I got with the prompt "something original":

https://imgur.com/a/RsQ2q1d

So I guess "something original" means "everything you've seen before on Instagram"

Re: I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

#112
post #7

Although AI artists will destroy a lot of jobs, it will also create demand for new jobs for people who specialize in “paint overs” – taking a high concept output created by AI artists and touching it up to perfection. Or perhaps even beyond just a paint over, and into the realm of recreating an entire AI artwork but with a human touch to get details just right. Looking forward to it.

I am already doing exactly that, and am getting paid for it. I am a logo artist and I sell pre-made logo designs. Before the current AI services I had to come up with visual ideas by myself, like a caveman. Now I use the AI to generate a bunch of sketches and blurry ideas, and then use my graphic design experience to polish them up to a usable level. Here's how it looks. https://imgur.com/a/DKTsKdC I am absolutely su…

Just tested it after looking through your album, and DALL-E seems pretty good for getting a logo concept generated.

This is what I got for the prompt "honey badger logo for an NFL sports team"

https://imgur.com/a/i2nnii2

Dunno what's going on with that last guy though, perhaps he's had one too many concussions on the field...

Re: I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

#113

DALL-E is still highly probabilistic in its judgement. For instance, in this article, it keeps putting "fire" in the the background on something that is likely to be on fire, rather than lighting up the person. I have a similar experience. In my own experiment, I can't get DALL-E to turn off the street lamp at a bus stop in the darkness. I've tried "no light", "broken street lamp", etc.; no use. Any mention of "stree…

I think DALL-E might be programmed to not depict violence, which is why it doesn't "like" rendering humans on fire.

How long until an unrestricted DALL-E -level model emerges? Seems only a matter of time.

Re: I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

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I haven't gotten to try it for myself, but I've read a few of these blogs that take you through generating examples or even look-alikes to older art pieces.

It surprisingly reminds me a lot of when I traveled to Japan without knowing really any Japanese. I needed to communicate not only with friends who don't know much English either, but also other people (like restaurant wait staff, train station staff, etc.).

I used Google Translate often, but many times I or my friend(s) (or the other people) would need to re-write our statements a few times until the translation result clicked well enough in each other's languages to be understandable.

Re: I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

#115

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I have experienced violent or harmful settings to be avoided by DALL-E. E.g. setting a person on fire. Same with drowning - seems to be impossible/hard to generate

I asked for "The Walking Dead directed by x" and got a content violation, I guess because my prompt included "dead".

I got a content violation warning when I tried to get it to generate a facade… too close to “facial” I guess.

Re: I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

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post #11
post #7

Although AI artists will destroy a lot of jobs, it will also create demand for new jobs for people who specialize in “paint overs” – taking a high concept output created by AI artists and touching it up to perfection. Or perhaps even beyond just a paint over, and into the realm of recreating an entire AI artwork but with a human touch to get details just right. Looking forward to it.

The new copyright washing industry is nearly upon us.

This is the most underrated/prescient comment I've seen on hn. Once prompt engineering become a mature field this is going to be a serious issue.

Finally, the crossover of creative writing x cs... for graphic design? I can't wait to watch the lawyers recoil. ::Prepares Popcorn::

Re: I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

#117
post #81

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I have experienced violent or harmful settings to be avoided by DALL-E. E.g. setting a person on fire. Same with drowning - seems to be impossible/hard to generate

Violent images likely have not been part of the training data for obvious reasons.

And this likely also explains why the OP had a hard time generating pictures of naked babies.

Re: I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

#118

An upvote for whoever can give me a prompt to generate an image of someone who's been massaged so much their body has been flattened, as if they were made of dough or jelly or something. I spent ages on this earlier getting nowhere. I'm starting to think DALL-E is better if you don't really know what you want and you're just fishing for ideas.

What are the results when you describe "a person without bones receiving a massage"?

Re: I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think DALL-E might be programmed to not depict violence, which is why it doesn't "like" rendering humans on fire.

How long until an unrestricted DALL-E -level model emerges? Seems only a matter of time.

Stable Diffusion is what you're looking for. It should be released to the public quite soon actually.

Re: I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

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DALL-E is still highly probabilistic in its judgement. For instance, in this article, it keeps putting "fire" in the the background on something that is likely to be on fire, rather than lighting up the person. I have a similar experience. In my own experiment, I can't get DALL-E to turn off the street lamp at a bus stop in the darkness. I've tried "no light", "broken street lamp", etc.; no use. Any mention of "stree…

I have experienced violent or harmful settings to be avoided by DALL-E. E.g. setting a person on fire. Same with drowning - seems to be impossible/hard to generate

It didn't get "swimming to a dollar" right either. I think it doesn't "understand" spatial descriptions unless it happens to find an image match the description.
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