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A prompt engineering guide for DALLE-2

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Re: A prompt engineering guide for DALLE-2

#51

Great document. Damn I am salivating to get access to Dall-E for some projects. Been on the waiting list for quite a while. I've been experimenting with Midjourney, which is amazing for spooky/ethereal artwork, but it struggles with complex prompts and realism.

Hang in there — I only got my invitation a couple days ago. They're still rolling out invitations at a steady pace. But, just as a side note, one of the first things they tell you is that they own the full copyright for any images you generate. You definitely have to play around with prompts to get a feel for how it works and to maximize the chance of getting something closer to what you want.

When did you sign up? I just signed up, and it sounds like it takes a year to get access, probably longer now. It's a bit frustrating because I didn't sign up when it came out because I didn't need it at the time, but now I'm afraid of waiting a year when I do. These types of waitlist systems encourage everybody to sign up for everything on the off-chance that they might need it later. Wish they just went with a simple pay-as-you-go model (with free access for researchers and other special cases who request it), like how Copilot does it.

Re: A prompt engineering guide for DALLE-2

#52

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When did you sign up? They seem to opening the gates more: https://mobile.twitter.com/sama/status/1547212678644371457

I signed up on day 2, still no access :')

Yea, I signed up months ago and still no access. Be patient.

Re: A prompt engineering guide for DALLE-2

#54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hang in there — I only got my invitation a couple days ago. They're still rolling out invitations at a steady pace. But, just as a side note, one of the first things they tell you is that they own the full copyright for any images you generate. You definitely have to play around with prompts to get a feel for how it works and to maximize the chance of getting something closer to what you want.

When did you sign up? I just signed up, and it sounds like it takes a year to get access, probably longer now. It's a bit frustrating because I didn't sign up when it came out because I didn't need it at the time, but now I'm afraid of waiting a year when I do. These types of waitlist systems encourage everybody to sign up for everything on the off-chance that they might need it later. Wish they just went with a simp…

I signed up just over a month ago and from what I've seen, it looks like you won't have to wait more than two months to get your invite. A lot of people who signed up around the same time as me have already received their invites, so it looks like they're speeding things up and getting ready for a public launch soon.

Re: A prompt engineering guide for DALLE-2

#55

Calling this "engineering" is just beyond parody.

It's as much engineering as SEO. Though with the 'prompt engineering' it's the human brain trying to coax something out of the black box - ironically, an algorithm might be better at generating the prompts after being given points in its parameter space that fit the aesthetic direction the user wants to explore.

Re: A prompt engineering guide for DALLE-2

#56

Great document. Damn I am salivating to get access to Dall-E for some projects. Been on the waiting list for quite a while. I've been experimenting with Midjourney, which is amazing for spooky/ethereal artwork, but it struggles with complex prompts and realism.

I'm also waiting but only put myself on the waitlist recently. I want to use it to generate synthetic image datasets from text descriptions. Very curious to explore the depth of what can be generated.

Re: A prompt engineering guide for DALLE-2

#57
post #53

What's the copyright situation for images from dalle/imagen?

AFAIK the only lawsuit that tests this so far was a kind of weird case where the programmer was trying to register his algorithm as the creator of the image, as a "work-for-hire". The copyright office's reasoning however banged on about the necessity of "human authorship"

> The Office also stated that it would not “abandon its longstanding interpretation of the Copyright Act, Supreme Court, and lower court judicial precedent that a work meets the legal and formal requirements of copyright protection only if it is created by a human author.”

https://www.copyright.gov/rulings-filings/review-board/docs/...

Re: A prompt engineering guide for DALLE-2

#58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When did you sign up? I just signed up, and it sounds like it takes a year to get access, probably longer now. It's a bit frustrating because I didn't sign up when it came out because I didn't need it at the time, but now I'm afraid of waiting a year when I do. These types of waitlist systems encourage everybody to sign up for everything on the off-chance that they might need it later. Wish they just went with a simp…

I signed up just over a month ago and from what I've seen, it looks like you won't have to wait more than two months to get your invite. A lot of people who signed up around the same time as me have already received their invites, so it looks like they're speeding things up and getting ready for a public launch soon.

Consider yourself lucky, I signed up in May and I'm still waiting.

Re: A prompt engineering guide for DALLE-2

#60
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I was expecting some clickbait/spam (the layout of the website has that feel) but this was surprisingly super in-depth and 100% matches up with my experience doing prompt engineering. There's a fine line between so descriptive that the AI hits an edge case and can't get out of it (so every attempt looks the same) and not being descriptive enough (so you can't capture the output you're looking for). DALL-E is already…

As someone who makes very weird and experimental stuff, DALL-E is like a Segway and CLIP is like a horse (especially with those edge cases that tend to self-engorge/get worse if you aren't clever). It's a shame compute costs aren't much different between the two (correct me if I'm wrong) - I don't think there is much of a purely artistic process with DALL-E, although I do like to use DALL-E Mini thumbnails as start images or upscale testers.

>Real-time traversal of the generation space is absolutely key for getting the output you want.

I've been sketching around a two-person browser game where a pair of prompters can plug things in together in real-time :D

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