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I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by ipaddr »

ravenstine wrote: post #12
superchroma wrote: post #2

When asked about what jobs the robots would come for first, I would have had to say that digital artist was pretty low on my ranking before now.

It's coming for us, too. It won't be long before most software engineer positions are eliminated while some are replaced by software "technicians" with enough expertise to command AI to generate working code. Perhaps the technicians will be tasked with building tests and some automation, but even that stuff can be delegated to AI to an extent. This may seem far off because the present economy is accustomed to paying…

Wouldn't millions of unemployed developers start creating software that would compete/overthrow existing software companies?

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by chiefalchemist »

ravenstine wrote: post #12
superchroma wrote: post #2

When asked about what jobs the robots would come for first, I would have had to say that digital artist was pretty low on my ranking before now.

It's coming for us, too. It won't be long before most software engineer positions are eliminated while some are replaced by software "technicians" with enough expertise to command AI to generate working code. Perhaps the technicians will be tasked with building tests and some automation, but even that stuff can be delegated to AI to an extent. This may seem far off because the present economy is accustomed to paying…

> "This may seem far off..."

After experimenting with GitHub Co-Pilot I can see that day being 50% - perhaps even just 25% - as far as it used to feel.

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by jedberg »

sfink wrote: post #86

Ugh, this immediately drives home the realization that representative images are soon going to be devalued and useless, to the point that we'll all be ignoring them soon. Possibly even stripping them with ad blockers or similar tools. I actually think it's really awesome to be able to do this with a series of blog posts, and even if you look past the stylistic inconsistencies and oddities, this particular usage is go…

> But they'll quickly become expected and necessary and we'll have the usual race to the bottom. Everyone will have some image because it boosts engagement by 8%... wait now 6%... oops it's too common, we're awash in crappy irrelevant images just added for the boost, which is down to 2%... oh crap, now the absence of an image is a good signal for content quality, we're at -1%!

Too late. It already started happening a while ago. Tons of blogs with annoying animated gifs and now browsers have the ability to block them.

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by brundolf »

knicholes wrote: post #37
brundolf wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fwiw, in my experience you don't actually need a CDN just to survive HN. It may be enough to just make sure you're not hitting a DB on every request; ideally you'd be caching the HTML output wholesale (via static site generator or otherwise) For reference: with cached HTML, my single Node.js process running on Heroku's cheapest tier has weathered the front page multiple times without breaking a sweat

Right, like something like Varnish.

Hadn't heard of Varnish, but yeah, it looks like a good solution the OP could probably layer over their current setup without too much trouble

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by amelius »

akamaka wrote: post #9

Am I one of the few people who finds these generated pictures really bad? They often have weird and unsettling details when you look closely. I mean, it’s an incredible achievement in AI that we can generate images at this level, but I don’t want them shown to me on a daily basis while I’m reading blogs.

The pictures are certainly deep down in the uncanny valley, but I think they would be great for nightmarish games. In fact, game developers (and especially game artists) might be the next profession on the line, to be automated by AI.

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by tablespoon »

ceeplusplus wrote: post #42
ravenstine wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's coming for us, too. It won't be long before most software engineer positions are eliminated while some are replaced by software "technicians" with enough expertise to command AI to generate working code. Perhaps the technicians will be tasked with building tests and some automation, but even that stuff can be delegated to AI to an extent. This may seem far off because the present economy is accustomed to paying…

The problem with that theory is that writing code is easier than reading code. This is generally not the case in other professions. It is definitely not the case for an artist. You still need correct code, and the halting problem says you can't prove whether code does what you want it to. At the end of the day, someone needs to be able to go in and fix shit the AI did wrong, and to do that you need to understand the…

> The problem with that theory is that writing code is easier than reading code. This is generally not the case in other professions. It is definitely not the case for an artist.

> You still need correct code, and the halting problem says you can't prove whether code does what you want it to. At the end of the day, someone needs to be able to go in and fix shit the AI did wrong, and to do that you need to understand the code the AI wrote.

This might have been your point, but chances are the "code the AI wrote" will be an unmaintainable mess, so "fixing it" means throwing it away and re-doing it.

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by lupire »

sfink wrote: post #86

Ugh, this immediately drives home the realization that representative images are soon going to be devalued and useless, to the point that we'll all be ignoring them soon. Possibly even stripping them with ad blockers or similar tools. I actually think it's really awesome to be able to do this with a series of blog posts, and even if you look past the stylistic inconsistencies and oddities, this particular usage is go…

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Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by jedberg »

> Maybe it was because this was my first attempt, but with 100 more posts to go, I hoped I could get better with practice. It would be super cool to just feed DALL-E a whole blog post and have something great pop out, but even with some GPT-3 magic we probably aren’t there yet.

I see a business opportunity here. Feed text into GPT-3 and have it generate DALL-E prompts to make appropriate images.

Then you have it do the same thing for a children's book.

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by [deleted] »

sfink wrote: post #86

Ugh, this immediately drives home the realization that representative images are soon going to be devalued and useless, to the point that we'll all be ignoring them soon. Possibly even stripping them with ad blockers or similar tools. I actually think it's really awesome to be able to do this with a series of blog posts, and even if you look past the stylistic inconsistencies and oddities, this particular usage is go…

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Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by [deleted] »

wyager wrote: post #54

An important lesson: >99% of your blog readers will visit during If your goal is to allow people to read the stuff you write, you must be capable of serving your content to >1000 people per second. Use a good backend (I recommend Servant+Warp or Snap - the only two I've tried that could handle it, out of probably 15 popular options tested) or a good caching reverse proxy (insofar as such a thing can be said to exist)…

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