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DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by l33t2328 »

TaylorAlexander wrote: post #70
pornel wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AFAIK only people can own copyright (the monkey selfie case tested this), and machine-generated outputs don't count as creative work (you can't write an algorithm that generates every permutation of notes and claim you own every song[1]), so DALL-E-generated images are most likely copyright-free. I presume OpenAI only relies on terms of service to dictate what users are allowed to do, but they can't own the images, a…

The monkey selfie was not derived from millions of existing works, and that is the difference. If an artist has a well-known art style, and this algorithm was trained on it and can copy that style, would the artist have grounds to sue? I don't know.

If I write a song am I not deriving it from the existing works I’ve been exposed to?

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Post by vlunkr »

brycethornton wrote: post #3

I'm blown away by this: "Starting today, users get full usage rights to commercialize the images they create with DALL·E, including the right to reprint, sell, and merchandise. This includes images they generated during the research preview." I assumed this was going to be the sticking point for wider usage for a long time. They're now saying that you have full rights to sell Dall-E 2 creations?

Is the lesson here that these images are worth nothing so they lose nothing by giving them away?

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Post by president »

cypress66 wrote: post #35

> Reducing bias: We implemented a new technique so that DALL·E generates images of people that more accurately reflect the diversity of the world’s population. This technique is applied at the system level when DALL·E is given a prompt about an individual that does not specify race or gender, like “CEO.” Will it do it "more accurately" as they claim? As in, if 90% of CEOs are male, then the odds of a CEO being male i…

Most likely this was something forced by their marketing team or their office of diversity. Given the explanation of the implementation (arbitrarily adding "black" and "female" qualifiers), it's clear it was just an afterthought.

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Post by [deleted] »

cypress66 wrote: post #35

> Reducing bias: We implemented a new technique so that DALL·E generates images of people that more accurately reflect the diversity of the world’s population. This technique is applied at the system level when DALL·E is given a prompt about an individual that does not specify race or gender, like “CEO.” Will it do it "more accurately" as they claim? As in, if 90% of CEOs are male, then the odds of a CEO being male i…

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Post by scott_s »

zikduruqe wrote: post #147
causi wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting. Considering this is now a paid product, is modifying user input covered by their ToS? If I was spending a lot of money on it I'd be rather annoyed my input was being silently polluted.

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

[shudder]

I tried the first whimsical, benign thing I could think of: "indiana jones eating spaghetti." The results are clearly recognizable as that. But they are also a kaleidoscope of body horror; a Indiana Jones monster melted into Cthulu forms inhaling plates that are slightly not spaghetti.

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Post by minimaxir »

neya wrote: post #186

I'm curious to know - does the community have any open source alternatives to DALL.E? For an initiative named OpenAI, keeping their source code and models closed behind a license is bullshit in my opinion.

The best open-source-but-actually-can-be-run-on-simple-infra analogous to DALL-E 2 is min-dalle: https://github.com/kuprel/min-dalle

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Post by throwaway0x7E6 »

andybak wrote: post #136
throwaway0x7E6 wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah. dalle is "so bad it's good". it's great for post-post-ironic memes, but I don't see it being useful for anything else

Have you tried any of the "human or Dall-E" tests? How did you score? I only scored as well as I did because I knew the kind of stylistic choices to look out for. In terms of "quality" I really don't understand how you've reached this conclusion.

I've only seen this thing https://huggingface.co/spaces/dalle-mini/dalle-mini

is it not dall-e?

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by [deleted] »

thorum wrote: post #182
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.

DALLE images are still only 1024 px wide. Which has its uses, but I don’t think the stock photo industry is in real danger until someone figures out a better AI superresolution system that can produce larger and more detailed images.

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Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by can16358p »

So can we now legally remove the "color blocks" watermark or not?

What about generating NFTs? It was explicitly prohibited during the previous period, now there is no notion of it. Without notion and rights for commercial use I think it's allowed but because it was an explicitly forbidden use case before, I want to be sure whether it can be used or not.

Regardless, excited to see what possibilities it opens.

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by bequanna »

scifibestfi wrote: post #67
cypress66 wrote: post #35

> Reducing bias: We implemented a new technique so that DALL·E generates images of people that more accurately reflect the diversity of the world’s population. This technique is applied at the system level when DALL·E is given a prompt about an individual that does not specify race or gender, like “CEO.” Will it do it "more accurately" as they claim? As in, if 90% of CEOs are male, then the odds of a CEO being male i…

The latter. Here's what we, a small number of people, think the world should look like according to our own biases and information bubble in the current moment. We will impose our biases upon you, the unenlightened masses who must be manipulated for your own good. And for god sakes, don't look for photos of the US Math team or NBA Basketball or compare soccer teams across different countries and cultures.

> Here's what we, a small number of people, think the world should look like according to our own biases and information bubble in the current moment.

You're being quite charitable. It is much more likely that optics and virtue signaling is behind this addition.

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