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Re: I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

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Post by TheOtherHobbes »

fifilura wrote: post #45
DubiousPusher wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually thought there were some interesting things revealed here. Particularly interesting to me were the Nevermind and Abbey Road results. Nevermind because it showed this weakness in the model in understanding what a dollar bill is. The most novel result being the image where the baby's visage appears inside the dollar. Regarding Abbey Road, I found it interesting that the model's concept of a public person span…

For me, what was interesting to see was that it didn't manage very well with the Abbey Road question. I had imagined that some parts of the training data would consist of the actual image, and it would find a good match for it somewhere deep into it's artificial consciousness.

It has no concept of The Beatles or Abbey Road or zebra crossings or perspective or creative composition in photography, so effectively it just mashes up some results from an image search.

If it created something very close to the original it would be overfitting. So it flails around rather randomly in photos-of-Beatles+Zebra+Abbey Road space. The results are novel, but they're also monstrous, distorted, and unartistic.

Re: I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

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Post by felipelalli »

andreyk wrote: post #3

I wonder how long the novelty of DALL-E will persist. HN seems to upvote anything titled "I did X with DALL-E". This is a fun post, but it's not that interesting or surprising. Still worth a look don't get me wrong, but personally didn't learn anything new from it. (eg recreating the famous pink Floyd cover with "Outline of prism on a black background in the middle of scene splits a beam of light coming from the left…

I love this kind of bad humor of HN.

Re: I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

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Post by paulcole »

andreyk wrote: post #27
hombre_fatal wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It will probably get boring the same time HNers stop confusing “hmm this isn’t that interesting guys” as notable commentary that needs to be shared.

Well then it will never get boring, will it... Fair enough, it's just been striking to see how many of these sort of posts have been popping up. Like I said, it's still fun and worth a look. Perhaps as a blogger I am extra salty when relatively low effort stuff gets upvoted over things that take a lot of work to write (in some cases, those being things I have written). But hey, that's life.

Low effort stuff can (and often is) better and/or more entertaining than high effort stuff.

Re: I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

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Post by paulcole »

Apocryphon wrote: post #23
hombre_fatal wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It will probably get boring the same time HNers stop confusing “hmm this isn’t that interesting guys” as notable commentary that needs to be shared.

DALL-E generate us some pics of unhappy HN curmudgeons

Here ya go:

https://imgur.com/a/kgQtUMf

I don’t know why it’s got the over-18 warning. It’s 100% SFW.

Re: I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

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Post by [deleted] »

andreyk wrote: post #3

I wonder how long the novelty of DALL-E will persist. HN seems to upvote anything titled "I did X with DALL-E". This is a fun post, but it's not that interesting or surprising. Still worth a look don't get me wrong, but personally didn't learn anything new from it. (eg recreating the famous pink Floyd cover with "Outline of prism on a black background in the middle of scene splits a beam of light coming from the left…

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Re: I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

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Post by codetrotter »

soneca wrote: post #50
codetrotter wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More. Prompt: > Website design for Weyland-Yutani Corporation. The Company was founded in 2099 by the merger of Weyland Corp and Yutani Corporation. Weyland-Yutani is primarily a technology supplier, manufacturing synthetics, starships and computers for a wide range of industrial and commercial clients, making them a household name. The website design for The Company is mobile first. Make it pop. Results: * https://i…

Thanks a lot! Hopefully I am not asking too much, but can you run the same prompts without the “make it pop”? So we can learn what is “pop”

Dall-E 2 will give varying results even for the same prompt. If we want to learn what is "pop" we would have to ask it very many times.

But I will give it a try.

First I do three more runs where I give it the same prompt that I gave it initially;

> Create a website design for a company that sells propane and propane accessories. The name of the company is Strickland Propane, a local propane dealership. Make it pop.

Results.

Run 1:

* https://i.imgur.com/qqOJHXj.png

* https://i.imgur.com/fao6NMs.png

* https://i.imgur.com/yH2Lned.png

* https://i.imgur.com/SiH3hmU.png

Run 2:

* https://i.imgur.com/1rppjpR.png

* https://i.imgur.com/6KiITZn.png

* https://i.imgur.com/uQTei8M.png

* https://i.imgur.com/ITacN1P.png

Run 3:

* https://i.imgur.com/KAm6Bc9.png

* https://i.imgur.com/LBBdotk.png

* https://i.imgur.com/ZPD32oV.png

* https://i.imgur.com/UkdSiZM.png

And then I do three runs where I give it same prompt, but this time without "make it pop";

> Create a website design for a company that sells propane and propane accessories. The name of the company is Strickland Propane, a local propane dealership.

Results.

Run 1:

* https://i.imgur.com/MYIGCcu.png

* https://i.imgur.com/Iw9JjVf.png

* https://i.imgur.com/aRaD4ew.png

* https://i.imgur.com/B7lOV3u.png

Run 2:

* https://i.imgur.com/9J2T4Mq.png

* https://i.imgur.com/058wHEH.png

* https://i.imgur.com/KVdhYVL.png

* https://i.imgur.com/sT2U3DM.png

Run 3:

* https://i.imgur.com/ub1EpvY.png

* https://i.imgur.com/6TkAI1U.png

* https://i.imgur.com/XnWGaUm.png

* https://i.imgur.com/IL03niN.png

Tbh I don't think we can draw much of a conclusion from this..

Re: I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

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Post by fzfaa »

nprateem wrote: post #46

An upvote for whoever can give me a prompt to generate an image of someone who's been massaged so much their body has been flattened, as if they were made of dough or jelly or something. I spent ages on this earlier getting nowhere. I'm starting to think DALL-E is better if you don't really know what you want and you're just fishing for ideas.

I didn't know that I needed this.

Re: I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

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Post by avian »

xwdv wrote: post #7

Although AI artists will destroy a lot of jobs, it will also create demand for new jobs for people who specialize in “paint overs” – taking a high concept output created by AI artists and touching it up to perfection. Or perhaps even beyond just a paint over, and into the realm of recreating an entire AI artwork but with a human touch to get details just right. Looking forward to it.

Here's another spin on this:

Imagine you're a software developer. In the near future, your manager wants a feature implemented in your company's app. He throws together a short mail with requirements and sends it to the prompt engineering department.

The prompt engineers fix a few typos, clean up the grammar and pepper a few secret sauce keywords around like "in the style of firefox", "in the style of kde". This get thrown into Microsoft Copilot 3.0 that barfs out a bunch of code.

Copilot's code has inconsistent indentation, three different method naming conventions and some variables named in a foreign language. It runs, but crashes if you tap on the lower left corner of the screen and allows you to drag the order quantity below 0. But that's ok, it's why we employ software engineers like you in our company. You will use your years of coding experience to touch up AI code to perfection. Better get the details just right until Monday all-hands!

Still looking forward to it?

Re: I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

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Post by birdyrooster »

_the_special_ wrote: post #47
nprateem wrote: post #46

An upvote for whoever can give me a prompt to generate an image of someone who's been massaged so much their body has been flattened, as if they were made of dough or jelly or something. I spent ages on this earlier getting nowhere. I'm starting to think DALL-E is better if you don't really know what you want and you're just fishing for ideas.

> an image of someone who's been massaged so much their body has been flattened, as if they were made of dough or jelly do you want a realistic looking one? 3d rendered? what do you have in mind exactly?

also what is the PCs budget?
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