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How do you suppose your CP generator will be trained without using authentic CP images? Not only will that require revictimization but you’ll also be downloading CP to train the model.

Did they need to put possums in space suits to tell Dell-E 2 how to render them?

No because there are lots of photos of possum and space that it has seen

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Of course some level of censorship is needed, otherwise it can be used to produce porn involving real people without their consent (eg celebs)

we already have a lot of fabricated content like that using current photo editing technology (Photoshop) and it's not causing much legal nor moral issues

Because it’s still pretty hard to make it and it’s bad - you can easily tell it’s fake.

This makes it as easy as typing a sentence - and the quality seems fairly realistic

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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.

I'm with you there but we still don't know how it works, just that it does. The method though is you take a bunch of images, you plug them into a multi dimensional array (a nice way of saying a tensor), have some kind of tagging system, and when you ask the system for an answer, it will put one out for you. So for example in the astronaut riding the horse, there is, on some level, a picture of a horse with those simi…

Note that linked post is an explanation of DALL-E, not DALL-E 2, which works differently.

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I am specifically referring to the flamingo example: "DALL·E 2 can make realistic edits to existing images from a natural language caption." You provide the background image and a text prompt and it doodles on top of the image you provided as per their demonstration. I wasn't referring to the other examples down the page where it conjures up a brand new image from scratch based on your image input. It is great that y…

That sounds like "humanity of the gaps", retreating in smaller and smaller human only spaces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps

Is their model god and I'm the heretic?

Or am I in denial about how impressive this all really is by reading something slightly different into the static hand selected examples openai teased us with? :)

I'm sure two more papers down the line this thing will do what the true believers are convinced it already does perfectly much more seamlessly if they solve for my new favorite term, panoptic segmentation.

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I tried to comment here previously, but I dont see it posted. It was about the meaning of 'open' and whether the question of suffering and freedom of the AIs was being taken into ethical consideration, not just the ability of humans to use them as tools for their own possibly paper-clippy purposes.

This is a tool AI, not an agent AI. Agent AI's can explore and change their environments, this model does not, and it has no sense of time passing.

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This is going to be mostly a rant on OpenAI's "safer than thou" approach to safety, but let me start with that I think this technology I think is really cool, amazing, powerful stuff. Dall-E (and Dall-E 2) is an incredible advance over GANs, and no doubt will have many positive applications. It's simply brilliant. I am someone who has been interested in and has followed the progress of ML generated images for nearly…

OpenAI is not the only AI shop. If they didn't make DALL-E someone else would, and control its release as they see fit.

Re: Dall-E 2

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A few comments by someone who's spent way too much time in the AI-generated space: * I recommend reading the Risks and Limitations section that came with it because it's very through: https://github.com/openai/dalle-2-preview/blob/main/system-c... * Unlike GPT-3, my read of this announcement is that OpenAI does not intend to commercialize it, and that access to the waitlist is indeed more for testing its limits (and…

Regarding cherry-picking, the images of astronauts on horses look stunning, except for their hands. There's something seriously wrong with their hands. Maybe give it another five years, a few more $billion and a few more petabytes/flops and it will be good. Then finally everyone can generate art for their own Magic: the Gathering cards. (That's the end goal, right?)

Hands are notoriously hard to even photograph. You very quickly get weird unnatural results with a camera in front of hands, so in a way I'm not surprised AI models struggle to produce satisfying imagery there too.

Re: Dall-E 2

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That sounds like "humanity of the gaps", retreating in smaller and smaller human only spaces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps

Is their model god and I'm the heretic? Or am I in denial about how impressive this all really is by reading something slightly different into the static hand selected examples openai teased us with? :) I'm sure two more papers down the line this thing will do what the true believers are convinced it already does perfectly much more seamlessly if they solve for my new favorite term, panoptic segmentation.

The link was for analogy, like religious people who can't accept science still try to find "gaps" where science can't explain something so they can imply God is doing it.
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