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DALL·E now available in beta

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Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by nbzso »

Anything to end Corporate Memphis. Even, if we as illustrators will not have jobs or commissions. Let's hope that every creative human endeavour, painting, music, poetry will be replaced and removed from the commercial realm. Then maybe we will see artistic humanism instead of synthetic trans-humanistic "pop art".

Happily for me I stopped painting digitally long time ago. I even stopped calling myself "an artist". Nowadays I paint and draw only with real medium and call all of that "Archivist craftsmanship with analogue medium". :)

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by throwaway4aday »

UmYeahNo wrote: post #139
kache_ wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While their heart is in the right place, I'd like to challenge the idea that certain groups are so fragile that they don't understand that historically, there are more pictures of certain groups doing certain things. It's a hard problem for sure. But remember, the bias ends with the user using the tool. If I want a black scientist, I can just say "black scientist". Let me be mindful of the bias, until we have a gener…

>But remember, the bias ends with the user using the tool. If I want a black scientist, I can just say "black scientist". That is a really, really , narrow viewpoint. I think what people would prefer is that if you query "Scientist" that the images returned are as likely to be any combination of gender and race. It's not that a group is "fragile", it's that they have to specify race and gender at all, when that speci…

Have you seen the queries that are used to generate actually useful results rather than just toy demonstrations? They look a lot more like your first example except with more specificity. It'd be more like "an adult human of any gender and any race and skin color dressed in a laboratory coat standing by a window holding a beaker in the afternoon sun. 1950s, color image, Canon 82mm f/3.6, desaturated and moody." so if instead you are looking for an image with a person of a specific ethnicity or gender then you are for sure going to add that in along with all of the details. If you are instead worried about the bias of the person choosing the image to use then there is nothing short of restricting them to a single choice that will fix that and even in that case they would probably just not use the tool since it wasn't satisfying their own preferences.

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by thorum »

ccmcarey wrote: post #6

That's about 10x as expensive as it should be

Until you consider the level of demand for this product, which is surely higher than OpenAI can scale to with the number of GPUs they have. If they price it lower they’ll be overwhelmed.

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by berberous »

MatthiasPortzel wrote: post #128
berberous wrote: post #20

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I think they are reacting to competition. MidJourney is amazing, was easier to get into, gives you commercial rights, and frankly I found more fun to use and even better output in most instances.

MidJourney definitely struggles more with complex prompts from what I saw. If you like the output more, that’s subjective, but I think DALL•E is the leader in the space by a wide margin.

I think both have strengths and weaknesses, but I don’t disagree DALL-E in most instances is technically better at matching prompts. But I often enjoyed, artistically, the results of MidJourney more; it just felt fun to use and explore.

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by bemmu »

busyant wrote: post #183
bemmu wrote: post #58

I was supposed to be making a video game, but got a bit sidetracked when DALL·E came out and made this website on the side: http://dailywrong.com/ (yes I should get SSL). It's like The Onion, but all the articles are made with GPT-3 and DALL·E. I start with an interesting DALL·E image, then describe it to GPT-3 and ask it for an Onion-like article on the topic. The results are surprisingly good.

This is clever. Does GPT-3 come up with the title of the article, too? That's the funniest part.

At first I came up with them myself, but found that it often comes up with better ones, so I ask it for variations.

I think I got it to even fill the title given a picture, something like “Article picture caption: Man holding an apple. Article title: ...”. Might experiment more with that in the future.

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by bpicolo »

redox99 wrote: post #177
xnx wrote: post #76

I fully expect stock image sites to be swamped by DALL-E generated images that match popular terms (e.g. "business person shaking hands"). Generate the image for $0.15. Sell it for $1.00.

DALL-E 2 isn't good enough for such photorealistic pictures with humans as of yet however.

https://twitter.com/TobiasCornille/status/154972906039745331...

Unless I'm missing something, these seem pretty darn good

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by minimaxir »

kuprel wrote: post #164
zikduruqe wrote: post #147

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Don't spend money. Use https://www.craiyon.com

This one is faster, I ported it https://replicate.com/kuprel/min-dalle

Additionally, it's also open-sourced on GitHub and can be self-hosted, with easy instructions to do so: https://github.com/kuprel/min-dalle

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by elcomet »

minimaxir wrote: post #174
bhaney wrote: post #154

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This produces dramatically worse results in my experience.

Not worse, but different. It depends on the prompt but DALL-E mini/mega seems to do better then DALL-E 2 for certain types of absurd prompts, such as the ones in /r/weirddalle

Definitely worse-quality. Maybe more diverse for some prompts yeah.

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by [deleted] »

danielvf wrote: post #80

I am thrilled about DALL-E, and the new terms of service. However, how they implemented the improved "diversity" is hilarious. Turns out that they randomly, silently modify your prompt text to append words like "black male" or "female". See https://twitter.com/jd_pressman/status/1549523790060605440 I don't know which emotion I feel more - applause at how glorious this hack is or tears at how ugly it is. Good luck to…

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