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Emoji Generator with AI

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Re: Emoji Generator with AI

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Post by sushisource »

ghosty141 wrote: post #48

It produces some "interesting" results. I put in "robber" expecting that one emoji everybody thinks exists but doesnt, and I got a black guy with a white beanie/hat. Apart from that it produces insanely convincing results. I believe people would not bat an eye if they'd get added in an update to iOS!

Heh, I put in "grapefruit" and it gave me just an absolute mess of like 100 grapefruit slices and then added a bunch of smoke over the top when it "removed the background".

Then I tried "day gecko" and the output absolutely rocked. So I guess my first try was unlucky.

Re: Emoji Generator with AI

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Post by chefandy »

fnordpiglet wrote: post #58
ChatGTP wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Drug dealer, car thief, car jacker, drive-by-shooter, murderer...all of those things and many other crime related terms will give you a black person. Quite a shit thing to be happening.

AI models and their biases are reflections of the biases of society. I don’t like them, but it’s hard to argue with the fact it’s just math producing the semantic best likelihood based on publicly sourced training data.

See that's the thing about content creation— you entirely lose the "it's just a tool and tools are inherently neutral" argument. Nobody's claiming that the implementor created deliberately racist content, but you can't merely disavow responsibility for the content you generate because the input and algorithms you chose were the root of the problem. Like it or not, what's included in the source data for these models is an editorial choice, and which model you use and how you use it are also editorial choices.

Re: Emoji Generator with AI

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Post by [deleted] »

ChatGTP wrote: post #53
ghosty141 wrote: post #48

It produces some "interesting" results. I put in "robber" expecting that one emoji everybody thinks exists but doesnt, and I got a black guy with a white beanie/hat. Apart from that it produces insanely convincing results. I believe people would not bat an eye if they'd get added in an update to iOS!

Drug dealer, car thief, car jacker, drive-by-shooter, murderer...all of those things and many other crime related terms will give you a black person. Quite a shit thing to be happening.

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Re: Emoji Generator with AI

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Post by whalesalad »

itslennysfault wrote: post #38
Charlieholtz wrote: post #6

Hi! Creator here! I just started hacking on this last night and wasn't expecting to see this on HN already :) It works by taking your prompt and generating an emoji using https://replicate.com/fofr/sdxl-emoji . Next, I remove the background using https://replicate.com/cjwbw/rembg . Then, click to download and add to slack! It's all open-source, code is here: https://github.com/cbh123/emoji Let me know if you have any…

Elixir... don't see that every day. I started reading through the code and was like "what the heck is an ex file?!!" Never really seen Elixir before. Looks pretty nice.

Elixir is a killer language and tool. It's considered esoteric these days but I think more and more folks are going to wake up to the inherent beauty of the Erlang BEAM and OTP applications pretty soon here.

Re: Emoji Generator with AI

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Post by iinnPP »

quaffapint wrote: post #8

Based on some of these, it seems 'AI' still just can't figure out fingers.

When you setup SD1.5 with enough extras, the finger problem is effectively gone. For those very few that slip through, a new seed or inpainting takes care of it.

Re: Emoji Generator with AI

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Post by jsf01 »

Charlieholtz wrote: post #6

Hi! Creator here! I just started hacking on this last night and wasn't expecting to see this on HN already :) It works by taking your prompt and generating an emoji using https://replicate.com/fofr/sdxl-emoji . Next, I remove the background using https://replicate.com/cjwbw/rembg . Then, click to download and add to slack! It's all open-source, code is here: https://github.com/cbh123/emoji Let me know if you have any…

Super cool! I would add a checkbox to toggle whether you want background removal, or make that an optional second step. In about half the cases I tried, the background was an important part of my image and without it only weird artifacts remained.

Re: Emoji Generator with AI

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Post by brap »

Protip: if you remove the "hidden" class name from the div containing the key word "Recents", you can see recent emojis made by others (which is both fun and disturbing)

Re: Emoji Generator with AI

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Post by crazygringo »

This is super, super cool.

However, I also observe that it's not very good at creating emoji that are legible at, well, emoji (body text) size.

Emoji and icon creation generally isn't as straightforward as you'd think -- you need to essentially create a series of clear shapes that are intelligible at body text size (32x32 pixels at retina, or even smaller), and then add texture and smaller details in a way that pops at higher resolutions, but "disappears" when downscaled.

I wonder if there's a pipeline that could implement that today. E.g. training on emoji at 32x32 resolution to generate those, and then some kind of intelligent upscaling algorithm also trained on low- and high-res emoji that is able to insert appropriate texture and details according to the emoji description.

I love the idea that in the not-too-distant future people will just be dictating their desired emoji, they'll save and reuse the ones they love from their friends, and we'll get yearly most-popular-new-emoji lists that reveal the national/worldly mood/zeitgeists...

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