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Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by ryanSrich »

akamaka wrote: post #9

Am I one of the few people who finds these generated pictures really bad? They often have weird and unsettling details when you look closely. I mean, it’s an incredible achievement in AI that we can generate images at this level, but I don’t want them shown to me on a daily basis while I’m reading blogs.

> Am I one of the few people who finds these generated pictures really bad?

Well they're bad at not looking like AI generated art. It's impressive, but I've yet to come across an example that doesn't look like AI generated art. A few seconds of surface level inspection and you can see the weird AI psychodelic circling effect (no idea what the technical name is - eye-ball-ification?)

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by gitgud »

superchroma wrote: post #2

When asked about what jobs the robots would come for first, I would have had to say that digital artist was pretty low on my ranking before now.

The reason it's focused so much is that art has incredibly low stakes... and people don't want AI making any seemingly important decisions...

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Post by Jiro »

Kranar wrote: post #77
akamaka wrote: post #9

Am I one of the few people who finds these generated pictures really bad? They often have weird and unsettling details when you look closely. I mean, it’s an incredible achievement in AI that we can generate images at this level, but I don’t want them shown to me on a daily basis while I’m reading blogs.

I find the images to be incredible, but it's very unsettling when you focus on certain details like hands, feet, and eyes. The hands and feet that it draws are almost always mangled, and while it does a good job of drawing an individual eye, it doesn't seem to draw two eyes in a well coordinated manner, either one eye is bigger than the other, or there is something weirdly unsymmetrical about the eyes that makes the…

Online DALL-E generators often are deliberately prevented from producing good faces, because of the potential for abuse.

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by SilverBirch »

> Our approach so far has been to spend 10 minutes scrolling through tangentially related but ultimately ill-fitting images from stock photo sites, download something not terrible,

This just seems… Not interesting, well done you’ve recreated images that clearly even before AI everyone ignored.

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by texaslonghorn5 »

WheelsAtLarge wrote: post #109

>"While the role of the artist isn’t going away soon, the role of stock image sites might disappear. " Not, yet. While it's cheap relative to stock images, it's time consuming to generate exactly what you want. Prices for stock images will collapse for the common quick to use images but the price for the specialized high end images will hold their value or even increase in value. Those historical and such images will…

Would that be similar to a "prompt engineer" role?

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Post by samatman »

ravenstine wrote: post #12
superchroma wrote: post #2

When asked about what jobs the robots would come for first, I would have had to say that digital artist was pretty low on my ranking before now.

It's coming for us, too. It won't be long before most software engineer positions are eliminated while some are replaced by software "technicians" with enough expertise to command AI to generate working code. Perhaps the technicians will be tasked with building tests and some automation, but even that stuff can be delegated to AI to an extent. This may seem far off because the present economy is accustomed to paying…

I don't think it will be like that, for two reasons.

One, coming up with a correct description of a program is what computer programming actually is. Implementation is something we're always looking to do faster, so we can describe more behaviors to the computer.

Two, we're nowhere near the scale of software production which would clear market demand. If everyone who writes code for a living woke up and was ten times as productive, there would be more churn than usual while the talent finds its level, but the result would be ten times as much code per year, not five times and 50% unemployment.

Today I wrote a little bit of code to generate a prefix trie and write it out in a particular format, with some extra attention to getting the formatting 'nice'. This took me about three hours.

It won't be long before something in the nature of Copilot could have gotten this down to, maybe, a half hour for results of the same (minimal, acceptable) quality.

Wonderful! Can't wait, I'll be six times as productive at this kind of task.

This might make it hard, on the margin, for some of the more junior and glue-oriented developers to find work, but I think the main result will be more software gets written, the same way using a structured programming language got people further in a day than writing in assembler did.

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by amelius »

amildie wrote: post #117
ravenstine wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's coming for us, too. It won't be long before most software engineer positions are eliminated while some are replaced by software "technicians" with enough expertise to command AI to generate working code. Perhaps the technicians will be tasked with building tests and some automation, but even that stuff can be delegated to AI to an extent. This may seem far off because the present economy is accustomed to paying…

I don't think we'll see this in our lifetimes. For that scenario to be possible, general AI needs to be developed first. A huge (and awful) part of software engineering is figuring out what exactly the stakeholders want you to build or fix. Sometimes, they themselves don't even know. Dealing with ambiguos jira tickets, poorly reported bugs, non-existent requirements, missing or outdated documentation; these are the "…

> A huge (and awful) part of software engineering is figuring out what exactly the stakeholders want you to build or fix. Sometimes, they themselves don't even know.

Yeah, but that part can be learned by anyone without a CS degree.

Perhaps not everything in software can be automated, but I could see a team of 10 programmers be replaced by 1 person (programmer or not) skillful enough to control a bunch of AI software tools.

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Post by WheelsAtLarge »

Jiro wrote: post #123
Kranar wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find the images to be incredible, but it's very unsettling when you focus on certain details like hands, feet, and eyes. The hands and feet that it draws are almost always mangled, and while it does a good job of drawing an individual eye, it doesn't seem to draw two eyes in a well coordinated manner, either one eye is bigger than the other, or there is something weirdly unsymmetrical about the eyes that makes the…

Online DALL-E generators often are deliberately prevented from producing good faces, because of the potential for abuse.

FYI, "ARC: FACE RESTORATION" is an AI that fixes distorted faces. It won't do miracles but it does a pretty good job when the face is just off a bit.

I suspect that overtime there will be many AIs that will target very specialized functions similar to ARC.

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by Bjorkbat »

superchroma wrote: post #2

When asked about what jobs the robots would come for first, I would have had to say that digital artist was pretty low on my ranking before now.

And digital artists aren't still pretty low on your ranking?

I don't know, after all the predictions about self-driving cars, I'm cautious. Especially considering that back then, it almost seemed obvious that we'd have self-driving cars by now. Cars were certainly capable of driving themselves back in 2016, it just seemed like we needed to iron out a few kinks. How long could that possibly take?

Now, I have no idea when it'll happen.

I'm not necessarily saying that it'll take AI forever to do what humans can do. Rather, I think its very hard to make good predictions with all the hype slightly deceptive marketing.

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