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Post by jaggs »

berberous wrote: post #20
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?

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.

nightcafe.studio is also free and good. Very good.

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Post by benbristow »

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.

From the server IP looks like you're on some managed WordPress hosting that only offers free SSL on the more 'premium' packages.

Easiest way for free SSL would be to just throw the domain on CloudFlare :)

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Post by noelsusman »

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…

In their examples, the "After mitigation" photos seem more representative of the real world. Before you got nothing but white guys for firefighter or software engineer and nothing but white ladies for teacher. That's not how the real world actually is today.

I'm not sure how they would accomplish 100% accurate proportions anyway, or even why that would be desirable. If I don't specify any traits then I want to see a wide variety of people. That's a more useful product than one that just gives me one type of person over and over again because it thinks there are no female firefighters in the world.

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Post by pieter_mj »

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.

Very funny! The "Scientists Warn New Faster Toothbrush May Cause Insanity"-story is not fake though, I've experienced it ;)

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Post by gwern »

nharada wrote: post #28

Something I haven’t seen anyone talking about with these huge models: how do future models get trained when more content online is model generated to start with? Presumably you don’t wanna train a model on autogenerated images or text, but you can’t necessarily know which is which.

My discussion of this issue (which actually comes up in like every DALL-E 2 discussion on HN): https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uKp6tBFStnsvrot5t/what-dall-...

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Post by jnovek »

danielvaughn wrote: post #251
nsxwolf wrote: post #234

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm already bored of it. When you have everything, you have nothing.

I'm sure the novelty wears off. But I'm already coming up with several applications for it. On the personal side, I've been getting into game development, but the biggest roadblock is creating concept art. I'm an artist but it takes a huge amount of time to get the ideas on paper. Using DALLE will be a massive benefit and will let me expedite that process. It's important to note that this is not replacing my entire c…

I’ve been using generative models as an art form in and of themselves since the mid/late 2010s. I like generating mundane things that bump right up along the edge of the uncanny valley and finding categories of images that challenge the model (e.g. for CLIP, phrases that have a clear meaning but are infrequently annotated).

Generating itself can be art. I’m not going to win a Pulitzer here, it’s for the personal joy of it, but I will certainly never get tired of it.

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Post by uplifter »

DecayingOrganic wrote: post #82

Since many people will start generating their first images soon, be sure to check out this amazing DALL-E prompt engineering book [0]. It will help you get the most out of DALL-E. [0]: https://dallery.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/The-DALL%... (PDF)

Thanks for this! A bit of prompt engineering know-how will help me get the most bang for the buck out of this beta. I also just want to say that dallery.gallery is delightfully clever naming.

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Post by ZeWaka »

DecayingOrganic wrote: post #82

Since many people will start generating their first images soon, be sure to check out this amazing DALL-E prompt engineering book [0]. It will help you get the most out of DALL-E. [0]: https://dallery.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/The-DALL%... (PDF)

This is absolutely amazing. Thanks!

Re: DALL·E now available in beta

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Post by blueboo »

jnovek wrote: post #316
peteforde wrote: post #228

I have been having a blast with DALL-E, spending about an hour a day trying out wild combinations and cracking my friends up. I cannot imagine getting bored of it; it's like getting bored with visual stimulus, or art in general. In fact, I've been glad to have a 50/day limit, because it helps me contain my hyperfocus instincts. The information about new pricing is, to me as someone just enjoying making crazy imagines…

My heart sank when I saw the pricing model. I’ve been creating generative art since 2016 and I’ve been anxiously waiting for my invite. I wont be able to afford to generate the volume of images it takes to get good ones at this price point. I can afford $20/mo for something like this but I just can’t swing $200 to $300 it realistically takes to get interesting art out of these CLIP-centric models. Heck, the initial 5…

If you’re technically inclined, I urge you to explore some newer Colabs being shared in this space. They offer vastly more configurable tools, work great for free on Google Colab, are straightforward to run on a local machine.

Meanwhile we should prepare ourselves for a future where the best generative models cost a lot more as these companies slice and dice the (huge) burgeoning market here.

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