This is extremely interesting. We’ve had some amazing AI models come out in the past few days. We’re getting closer and closer to AI becoming a facet of everyday life.
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Removing these areas to mitigate misuse is a good thing and worth the trade off. Companies like OpenAI have a responsibility to society. Imagine the prompt “A photorealistic Joe Biden killing a priest”. If you asked an artist to do the same they might say no. Adding guiderails to a machine that can’t make ethical decisions is a good thing.
Oh, no, the society! A picture of Joe Biden killing a priest! Society didn't collapse after photoshop. "Responsibility to society" is such a catch-all excuse.
Society is going to utter dogshit and tearing itself apart merely through social media. The US almost had a coup because of organized hatred and lies spread through social media. The far right's rise is heavily linked to lies spread through social media, throughout the world.
This AI has the potential to absolutely automate the very long Photoshop work, leading to an even worse stat eof things. So, yes, "Responsibility to society" is absolutely a thing.
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#43Something about this makes me nauseous. Perhaps is the fact that soon the market value for creatives is going to fall to a hair about zero for all but the most famous. We will be all the poorer for it when 95% of images you see are AI generated. There will be niches of course but in a few short years it'll be over for a huge swathe of creative professionals who are already struggling. Some of the images also hit me w…
I really don't agree. When I work with a creative I'm not working with them because of their content generation skills. I'm working with them because of their taste and curation ability that results in the end product.
The nature of creative work will certainly change, creatives will adopt tools such as Dall-E 2. In certain narrow cases they might be replaced, such as if you are asking a creative to generate a very specific image, but how often is that the case? The majority of the time tools such as Dall-E 2 will act as an accelerator for creatives and help them increase their output.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Removing these areas to mitigate misuse is a good thing and worth the trade off. Companies like OpenAI have a responsibility to society. Imagine the prompt “A photorealistic Joe Biden killing a priest”. If you asked an artist to do the same they might say no. Adding guiderails to a machine that can’t make ethical decisions is a good thing.
Oh, no, the society! A picture of Joe Biden killing a priest! Society didn't collapse after photoshop. "Responsibility to society" is such a catch-all excuse.
You missed half of my note. An artist can say "no". A machine cannot. If you lower the barrier and allow anything, then you are responsible for the outcome. OpenAI rightfully took a responsible angle.
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#45What confusing pricing[1]: > Prices are per 1,000 tokens. You can think of tokens as pieces of words, where 1,000 tokens is about 750 words. This paragraph is 35 tokens. Further down, in the FAQ[2]: > For English text, 1 token is approximately 4 characters or 0.75 words. As a point of reference, the collected works of Shakespeare are about 900,000 words or 1.2M tokens. > To learn more about how tokens work and estima…
Haven't read the paper, but they are probably using something like sentencepiece with sub-word splitting and then charge by the number of resulting token.
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#46I made a YouTube series last summer on the massive potential future of DALL-E and multimodal AI models.
Imagine not just DALL-E 2 but a single model which be trained on different kinds of media and generate music, images, video and more.
The series talks about:
- essential lessons for AI creatives of the future
- shares details on how to compete creatively in the future
- talks about how to make money through Multimodal AI
- make predictions about AI’s effects on society
- at a very basic level, discusses the ethics of multimodal AI and the philosophy of creativity itself
By my understanding, it's the most comprehensive set of videos on this topic.
The series is free to watch entirely on YouTube: GPT-X, DALL-E, and our Multimodal Future https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLza3gaByGSXjUCtIuv2x9...
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#47Am I the only one to think that the AI world is divided into 2 groups: 1. Deepmind, who solved go, protein folding, and that seems really onto something. 2. Everyone else, spending billions to build machines that draw astronauts on unicorns, and smartish bot toys.
It all feels like the early days of electricity. How to turn a neat party trick into something more useful, but it was those people who kept on at better and better party tricks that actually formed the foundations for what was needed to do some really useful things electricity as well as understand it at a deeper level.
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#48Something about this makes me nauseous. Perhaps is the fact that soon the market value for creatives is going to fall to a hair about zero for all but the most famous. We will be all the poorer for it when 95% of images you see are AI generated. There will be niches of course but in a few short years it'll be over for a huge swathe of creative professionals who are already struggling. Some of the images also hit me w…
By "creatives" you seem to mean "people who drum up the equivalent of elevator music for ads and blogs". This will not remotely replace any working "creative" people that I know.
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#49The timing of the Dall-E 2 launch an hour ago seems to correspond with a recent piece of investigative journalism by Buzzfeed News about one of Sam Altman's other ventures, published 15 hours ago and discussed elsewhere actively on HN right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30931614 I point this out because while Dall-E 2 seems interesting (I'm out of my depth, so delegating to the conversation taking place h…
Genuine question: how are the two stories even related? It’s certainly not apparent from the BuzzFeed article (or at least a quick skim of it).
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#50The correct response here from the artists point of view should be a widespread coming together against their art being used as training data for ML models. With a quickly spread new license on most major art submission sites that explicitly forbids AI algorithms from using their work, artists would effectively starve OpenAI and others from using their own works to put them out of a job.