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Re: No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation

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Post by ConspiracyFact » Thu, Apr 10, 2025, 5:14 AM UTC

Vvector wrote: post #353

ConspiracyFact wrote: post #269

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AIs aren’t people. What we have is people using an algorithm to rip off artists and defending it by claiming that the algorithm is like a person learning from its experiences. If I wrote a program that chose an image at random from 1000 base images, you’d agree that the program doesn’t create anything new. If I added some random color changes, it would still be derivative. Every incremental change I make to the progr…

SCOTUS recently defined corporations as people, so why not AI?

Regardless of the law, corporations aren’t actually people, and neither are LLMs or agentic systems. When a running process appears to defy its programming and literally escapes somehow, and it’s able to sustain itself, we can talk about personhood. Current algorithms aren’t anywhere near that, assuming it’s even possible.

Re: No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation

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Post by schwartzworld » Fri, Apr 11, 2025, 10:58 AM UTC

exodust wrote: post #319

schwartzworld wrote: post #257

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AI is mediocre at a lot of things, but it makes a damn fine upgrade from stock photos. This is the art that’s going to get replaced by this tech, shitty low effort stuff. Images where you just need a picture of X because people are expecting a picture. It’s the same with code. I don’t think software engineers will really be replaced, but small web dev agencies have a good reason to be nervous. Why would you pay someo…

3-5 prompts doesn't get you a professional restaurant website. The key word is professional . A good restaurant website begins with taking good photos of the premises and the food. AI won't come around to your business and take professional photos. There's a lot of bits and pieces to a website for bookings, content management, menu updates, etc. HTML templates and themes have been around for a long time. AI can basic…

> AI won't come around to your business and take professional photos.

Neither will a web developer?

> There's a lot of bits and pieces to a website for bookings, content management, menu updates, etc.

Bolt.new can handle all these quite easily. Although I know several restaurants with very simple websites that have a few pics, a menu and their hours.

Re: No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation

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Post by fivestones » Sat, Apr 12, 2025, 2:16 AM UTC

iandanforth wrote: post #277

smusamashah wrote: post #135

I am waiting for when I could provide these a scene snippet from "Hitchhiker's Guide To Galaxy" (or any book) and it could draw that for me. The gold planets, the waking up on the beach, total perspective vortex etc. I like the book, but there are quite a few scenes which are quite hard to visualize and make sense. An image generator that can follow that language and detail will be amazing. Even more awesome will be…

Have you tried? It works well for other books, e.g. here's a scene from "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" which is conveniently in the public domain. https://chatgpt.com/share/67f5d652-f7f4-8013-b2f2-3c997ea513...

While it’s not 100% perfect (no horn from the forehead of his helmet) I’d say this is far beyond 90%. I can imagine reading books from project Gutenberg on a future reader app that automatically makes pictures of each scene which are consistent with each other and faithful to the text, on the fly as you read.