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#461
I really just need to make some porn with this stuff already and I feel like we’re all tip toeing around this key feature.

Censored models are not going to work and we need someone to charge for an explicit model already that we can trust.

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#462

I think the thing that most perturbs me about AI is that it takes jobs that involve manipulating colours, light, shade and space directly and turns them into essay writing exercises. As a dyslexic I fucking hate writing essays. 40% of architects are dyslexic. I wouldn't be surprised if that was similar or higher in other creative industries such as filmmaking and illustration. Coincidentally 40% of the prison populat…

you can speak instead if you wish. Speech to text is available for all operating systems.

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post #414

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> nobody wants to see a video or a photo of a dark, gray, and barely visible aurora Except those who want to see an accurate representation of what it looks like to the naked eye.

Living in northern Sweden I see the northern lights multiple times a year. I have never seen them pale or otherwise not colorful. Green and reds always. That is to my naked eye. Photographs do look more saturated, but the difference isn't as large as this comment thread make it out to be.

In the upper peninsula of michigan I have only seen grey.

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I think the thing that most perturbs me about AI is that it takes jobs that involve manipulating colours, light, shade and space directly and turns them into essay writing exercises. As a dyslexic I fucking hate writing essays. 40% of architects are dyslexic. I wouldn't be surprised if that was similar or higher in other creative industries such as filmmaking and illustration. Coincidentally 40% of the prison populat…

I guess in the near future prompts can be replaced by a live editing conversation with the AI, like talking to a phantom draughtsman or a camera operator / movie team. The AI will adjust while you talk to it and can also ask questions.

ChatGPT already allows this workflow to some extent. You should try it out. I just talked to ChatGPT on my phone to test it. I think I will not go back to text for these purposes. It's much more creative to just say what you don't like about a picture.

If you speech is also affected rough sketches and other interfaces will/are also be available (see https://openart.ai/apps/sketch-to-image). What kind of expression do you prefer?

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>these sample videos are underwhelming wow the speed at which we can be blasé is terrifying. 6 months ago this was not possible, and felt this was years away! They're not underwhelming to me, they're beyond anything I thought would ever be possible. are you genuinely unimpressed? or maybe trying to play it cool?

The faster the tech cycle, the faster we become accustomed to it. Look at your phone, an absolute, wondrous marvel of technology that would have been utterl and totally scifi just 25 years ago. Yet we take it for granted, as we do with all technology eventually. The time frames just compress is all, for better or for worse.

Yeah man but there has to be some thresholds. We take phones for granted after years of active availability. I personally remember days when "what if your phone dies" was a valid concern for even short periods, and I'm not that old. Sora isn't even available publicly. At some point it crosses over from being jaded to just being a cynic.

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post #462

I think the thing that most perturbs me about AI is that it takes jobs that involve manipulating colours, light, shade and space directly and turns them into essay writing exercises. As a dyslexic I fucking hate writing essays. 40% of architects are dyslexic. I wouldn't be surprised if that was similar or higher in other creative industries such as filmmaking and illustration. Coincidentally 40% of the prison populat…

you can speak instead if you wish. Speech to text is available for all operating systems.

Speaking has sound but that is still just words with the same logic structure. "Colours, light, shade and space" have entirely different logic.

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post #462

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you can speak instead if you wish. Speech to text is available for all operating systems.

Speaking has sound but that is still just words with the same logic structure. "Colours, light, shade and space" have entirely different logic.

Very interesting. Thank you for the perspective, it is extremely illuminating.

What is a user interface which can move from color, light, shade, and space to images or text? Could there be an architecture that takes blueprints and produces text or images?

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post #353

The first thing I will do when I get access to this is ask it to generate a realistic chess board. I have never gotten a decent looking chessboard with any image generator that doesn't have deformed pieces, the correct number of squares, squares properly in a checkerboard pattern, pieces placed in the correct position, board oriented properly (white on the right!) and not an otherwise illegal position. It seems to be…

Ha, wow, I’d never seen this one before. The failures are pretty great. Even repeatedly trying to correct ChatGPT/Dall-e with the proper number of squares and pieces, it somehow makes it worse.

This is what dall-e came up with after trying to correct many previous iterations: https://imgur.com/Ss4TwNC

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post #414

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> nobody wants to see a video or a photo of a dark, gray, and barely visible aurora Except those who want to see an accurate representation of what it looks like to the naked eye.

Living in northern Sweden I see the northern lights multiple times a year. I have never seen them pale or otherwise not colorful. Green and reds always. That is to my naked eye. Photographs do look more saturated, but the difference isn't as large as this comment thread make it out to be.

I'm in Australia where the southern lights are known to be not as intense as northern lights. That's where my remark comes from. Those who have never seen the aurora with their own eyes may like to see an accurate photo. A rare find among the collective celebration of saturation.
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