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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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Post by Apocryphon »

voltaireodactyl wrote: post #28
Apocryphon wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For the past few years, I’ve long considered Hollywood failed adaptations to be a non-issue because so long as industrial civilization exists, media companies are going to squeeze what they can out of IPs. So while Game of Thrones might have ended quite poorly, I figure we’re only a few decades away from a different rights-holder giving it another go. Thus, I look forward to the AI-generated versions of famous works…

The trouble with this, for me, is that wouldn’t such a world necessarily mean the end of new actors (not to mention new worlds and stories)? After all, why hire unknowns when you can stack the cast with the A-listers of all time? And if everyone stacks the cast thusly, there are no opportunities for new actors to work with old and be mentored + opportunity to simply works since every bit of work is what adds up to ma…

Still gotta populate the training data

Re: I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

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Post by xor99 »

andreyk wrote: post #3

I wonder how long the novelty of DALL-E will persist. HN seems to upvote anything titled "I did X with DALL-E". This is a fun post, but it's not that interesting or surprising. Still worth a look don't get me wrong, but personally didn't learn anything new from it. (eg recreating the famous pink Floyd cover with "Outline of prism on a black background in the middle of scene splits a beam of light coming from the left…

Generative art and by extension DALL-E has a very fast attention decay imo. We can't avoid noticing patterns and getting bored by them. This makes art and music fun because the things that stick and stay interesting JUST DO for some unknown reason.

Re: I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

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Post by powersnail »

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 "street lamp", the scene will include a working street lamp.

It's just more probable that a scene with a lamp in the darkness must have that lamp providing light, and this is something that DALL-E will not break out of.

Re: I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

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Post by voltaireodactyl »

Apocryphon wrote: post #31
voltaireodactyl wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The trouble with this, for me, is that wouldn’t such a world necessarily mean the end of new actors (not to mention new worlds and stories)? After all, why hire unknowns when you can stack the cast with the A-listers of all time? And if everyone stacks the cast thusly, there are no opportunities for new actors to work with old and be mentored + opportunity to simply works since every bit of work is what adds up to ma…

Still gotta populate the training data

I get that, but I find it hard to see why one would look for NEW training data from actors who will never have the opportunity to become as seasoned as their forebears, when you have 100+ years of filmed historical data (among other formats) from which to pull your players?

Re: I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

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Post by codetrotter »

codetrotter wrote: post #25
codetrotter wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Prompt: > Create a website design for a company that sells propane and propane accessories. The name of the company is Strickland Propane, a local propane dealership. Make it pop. Results: * https://i.imgur.com/Jv7NJEN.png * https://i.imgur.com/5Uiyg1R.png * https://i.imgur.com/LL1DC11.png * https://i.imgur.com/buv5BvS.png So there you have it :p

Another one. Prompt: > Create a website design for ACME Corporation, a company which produces a wide array of products that are dangerous, unreliable or preposterous. Include customer quotes from a dissatisfied Wile E. Coyote prominently on the page. Make it pop. Results: * https://i.imgur.com/WK3QBj9.png * https://i.imgur.com/Bghgzjt.png * https://i.imgur.com/XLyYx76.png * https://i.imgur.com/QTSyFTc.png

More still.

Prompt:

> A website design concept for Apple Inc, in Neumorphism design style, showcasing the next generation iPhone Pro Max. Make it pop.

Results:

* https://i.imgur.com/lU4Mf0X.png

* https://i.imgur.com/ROMJEjT.png

* https://i.imgur.com/U4sDheM.png

* https://i.imgur.com/3bRXCs1.png

Tbh this is probably the worst one yet.. By that I mean, the results for this prompt are the least reflective of the text in the prompt. Sure it got the iPhones, but it doesn't really feel like a website design, and it doesn't feel like Neumorphism design style.

Re: I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

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Post by krapp »

avian wrote: post #16
xwdv wrote: 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.

> taking a high concept output created by AI artists and touching it up to perfection. When you put it like that, it sounds like a nightmare up side down world. It's not AI that's the tool for enhancing human creativity. It's humans that are the AI's tool, cleaning up the edge cases the AI artist can't handle (yet). It destroys creative jobs that give joy to people and creates assembly line jobs for them to slog in.

The purpose of jobs has never been to give people joy, but to extract value from their labor as quickly and efficiently as possible. Getting any kind of emotional satisfaction from one's work is a privilege which arguably points to an inefficiency in the market, as that energy is wasted which could better be put to productivity.

Artists, programmers and everyone else will have to find their joy somewhere other than than selling themselves to a corporation, once AI driven markets optimize away any room for "joy" and the like, and that's going to be one of the few good things about automation. The sooner we break people from the Puritan delusion that work defines a person's meaning and the value of their expression, the sooner we can once again decouple culture from the machinery of capitalism.

Re: I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

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Post by vanadium1st »

xwdv wrote: 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 sure that a lot of people are doing the same right now, just keeping quiet about it.

Re: I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

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Post by [deleted] »

zone411 wrote: post #24
andreyk wrote: post #3

I wonder how long the novelty of DALL-E will persist. HN seems to upvote anything titled "I did X with DALL-E". This is a fun post, but it's not that interesting or surprising. Still worth a look don't get me wrong, but personally didn't learn anything new from it. (eg recreating the famous pink Floyd cover with "Outline of prism on a black background in the middle of scene splits a beam of light coming from the left…

"DALL-E" in titles is about to be replaced with "Stable Diffusion." The beta website is already live but the interesting part will be specialized fine-tuned models based on public weights. There should be more technical experimentation since Stable Diffusion weights are only a few GBs and inference can be run on any recent GPU. There might also be more controversies because it can create more uncensored images. Someb…

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