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Not-so-open.ai
https://www.eleuther.ai (text, not images, but free as in freedom)
https://twitter.com/RiversHaveWings & https://github.com/crowsonkb
Is there an 'explain it like I'm 15' for how this works? It seems like black magic. I've been a computer hobbyist since the late 1980's and this is the first time I cannot explain how a computer does what it does. Absolutely the most amazing thing I've ever seen, and I have zero clue how it works.
Imagine asking it to generate a picture for "duck wearing a hat on Mars": First, it creates a random 10x10 pixel blurry image and asks a neural net: "Could this be a duck wearing a hat on Mars?" and the neural net replies "No, because all the pictures I've ever seen of Mars have lots of red color in them" so the system tweaks the pixels to make them more red, put some pixels in the center that have a plausible duck c…
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Depends whether you think models should be able to generate cp. It's almost impossible to even give an affirmative answer to that question without making yourself a target. And as much as I err on the side of creator freedom, I find myself shying away from saying yes without qualifications. And if you don't allow cp, then by definition you require some censoring. At that point it's just a matter of where you censor,…
There are so many excellent, thought-provoking comments in this thread, but yours caught me especially. Something that came to mind immediately upon reading the release was the potential for this technology to transform literature, adding AI generated imagery to turn any novel into a visual novel as a premium way to experience the story, something akin to composing D-Box seat response to a modern movie. I was imagini…
Another use case could be to make it easier/ automatic to create comics. You tell what the background should be, characters should be doing and the dialogues. Boom, you have a good enough comic.
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Reading as a medium has not evolved with technology. Creating the imagery does happen in humans' minds. It's not surprise that some people enjoy doing that (and also enjoy watching that imagery) and others do not.
This could be a helping brain to create those imageries.
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Now imagine, reading stories to your child. Actually, creating stories for your child. Where they are the characters in the stories. Having a visual element to it is definetly going to be a premium experience.
>We’ve limited the ability for DALL·E 2 to generate ... adult images. I think that using something like this for porn could potentially offer the biggest benefit to society. So much has been said about how this industry exploits young and vulnerable models. Cheap autogenerated images (and in the future videos) would pretty much remove the demand for human models and eliminate the related suffering, no? EDIT: typo
Depends whether you think models should be able to generate cp. It's almost impossible to even give an affirmative answer to that question without making yourself a target. And as much as I err on the side of creator freedom, I find myself shying away from saying yes without qualifications. And if you don't allow cp, then by definition you require some censoring. At that point it's just a matter of where you censor,…
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> The US almost had a coup because of organized hatred and lies spread through social media. But notice how all of these deep faking technologies weren't actually necessary for that. People believe what they want to believe. Regardless of quality of provided evidence. Scaremongering idea of deep fakes and what they can be doing was militarized in this information war way more than the actual technology. I think this…
Are you of the idea that we should let everyone get automatic rifles because, after all, pistols exist? Because that is the exact same line of thought. > People believe what they want to believe. Regardless of quality of provided evidence. That is a terrible oversimplification of the mechanics of propaganda. The entire reason for the movements that are popping up is actors flooding people with so much info that they…
Let me state my opinion more directly.
I'm for developing as much of deep fake technology in the open so that people can internalize that every video they see, every message, every speech should be initially treated as fabricated garbage unrelated to anything that actually happened in reality. Because that's exactly what it is. Until additional data shows up, geolocating, showing it from different angles and such.
Even if most people manage to internalize just the first part and assume everything always is fake news, that is still great because that counters propaganda to immense degree.
Power of propaganda doesn't come from flooding people with chaos of fakery. It comes from constructing consistent message by whatever means necessary and hammering it into the minds of your audience for months and years while simultaneously isolating them from any material, real or fake that contradicts your vision. Take a look no further than brainwashed Russian citizens and Russian propaganda that is able to successfully influence hundreds of millions without even a shred of deep fake technology for decades.
The problem of modern world is not that no one believes the actual truth because it doesn't really matter what most people believe. Only rich influence policy decisions. The problem is that people still believe that there is some truth which makes them super easy to sway to believe what you are saying is true and weaponize by using nothing more than charismatic voice and consistent message crafted to touch the spots in people that remain the same at least since the world war II and most likely from time immemorial.
And the "elite" who actually runs this world, will pursue tools of getting the accurate information and telling facts from fiction no matter the technology.
>We’ve limited the ability for DALL·E 2 to generate ... adult images. I think that using something like this for porn could potentially offer the biggest benefit to society. So much has been said about how this industry exploits young and vulnerable models. Cheap autogenerated images (and in the future videos) would pretty much remove the demand for human models and eliminate the related suffering, no? EDIT: typo
This author's books are great at putting these sort of moral ideas to test in a sci-fi context. This specific tome portraits virtual wars and virtual "hells". The hope is of being more civilized than by waging real war or torturing real living entities. However some protagonists argue that virtual life is indistinguishable from real life, and so sacrificing virtual entities to save "real" ones is a fallacy.
Or some such, it's been a while.
You can join it by following the steps in the guide here: https://github.com/huggingface/community-events/tree/main/hu...
There will also be talks from awesome folks at EleutherAI, Google, and Deepmind
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Depends whether you think models should be able to generate cp. It's almost impossible to even give an affirmative answer to that question without making yourself a target. And as much as I err on the side of creator freedom, I find myself shying away from saying yes without qualifications. And if you don't allow cp, then by definition you require some censoring. At that point it's just a matter of where you censor,…
Would this not necessarily require training it on a large body of real CSAM? Seems like it would be a non-starter.
A child with adult body parts is a whole other class of weirdness that might pop out too.
Models want to surprise us all.
I can see how this has the potential to disrupt the games industry. If you work on a AAA title, there is a small army of artists making 19 different types of leather armor. Or 87 images of car hubcaps. Using something like this could really help automate or at least kickstart the more mundane parts of content creation. (At least when you are using high resolution, true color imagery.)
There are some 3D image generation techniques, but they aren't based on polygonal modelings, so 3D artists are safe for now