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I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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

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Post by l33tman »

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 would suggest scanning through the r/dalle2 sub-reddit, as the submissions there are rated. There are limitations in the way the current crop of AI generators work, but in the hands of someone who knows these and know what prompts to specify you get completely amazing results that you as a layman can't tell is AI generated (without an expert investigation maybe into pixel-level artifacts).

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

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Post by trention »

l33tman wrote: post #268
trention wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's basically a way in which already delusional people are further deluding themselves that writing a part of a sentence while interacting with a black box is engineering.

Engineering is full of highly specialized disciplines. I met radio antenna engineers who only ever worked on one single piece of test equipment their entire working career and who used it to watch a signal bounce while they moved around pieces of copper tape on a PCB. That's literally all they did, and they didn't know what a spectrum analyzer or any other related tool was. You'll find these specialized positions wor…

>engineering as defined as "doing the best you can with tools you have"

This is not a definition of engineering anyone sane holds. It's so broad it can be used to define a floor cleaner as an engineer (or, if you want higher tech involved, a floor cleaner with a roomba).

This is not logic, this is travesty.

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

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Post by Valakas_ »

hamasho wrote: post #188

First time to hear "Prompt engineering" but I feel familiar with this term. It's my daily job to adjust google search queries to get the information I need, even though sometimes I don't know what I need.First time to hear "Prompt engineering" but I feel really familiar with this term. It's my daily job to engineer google search queries to get the information I nee.

Prompt "engineering" will last a couple of years, until the UI improves to the point any dummy can do it, just like with instagram filters.

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

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Post by tpxl »

zarzavat wrote: post #218
asddubs wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

open source isn't the same as public domain. the code is still copyrighted and has a specific license that has to be adhered to in order to be allowed to use it

Nobody knows whether or not training a NN is fair use. If it were ruled to be not fair use then it would basically shut down a large chunk of ML research in the US, as it's not just Copilot that is training on copyrighted data. All the large language models require copyrighted data such as web crawls as there is just not enough public domain material around. So even if you are right, and courts rule that training is…

> Nobody knows whether or not training a NN is fair use

A NN producing a copyrighted work without respecting the license is not fair use, we know that much.

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

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Post by Traubenfuchs »

egypturnash wrote: post #177

God it’s so fucking depressing to see all you techies debating whether or not the skill I have dedicated my life to getting good enough at to earn a quiet, modest living with should be automated away or not. And insisting that surely your jobs are too special and complex for this to ever happen to you. At least I can take solace in the fact that for now these things aren’t gonna be taking a bite out of the furry art…

> furry art

I can‘t wait for a dalle2 level model trained on all of e621, rule34, x-hentai, furaffinity, sofurry, inkbunny and u18chan. It‘s gonna be great.

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

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Post by hackernewds »

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.

You might be looking at the limited launched product. The fully powered product has amazing results

https://www.instagram.com/openaidalle/

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

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Post by hackernewds »

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…

The #jobs decreasing is an existential threat to any sector

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

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Post by hackernewds »

dan_mctree wrote: post #256
boredtofears wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait until the world becomes oversaturated with AI generated imagery and then make a killing when people realize that real artists can actually produce something original.

Have you seen the Dall-E outputs? If anything they do better than the vast majority of artists in terms of originality. Sure there's probably some people out there who can do better, but no where near the amount of people employed in the field today.

Hard disagree
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