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ChatGPT Images 2.0
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#952A great technical achievement, for sure, but this is kind of the moment where it enters uncanny valley to me. The promo reel on the website makes it feel like humans doing incredible things (background music intentionally evokes that emotion), but it's a slideshow of computer generatated images attempting to replicate the amazing things that humans do. It's just crazy to look at those images and have to consciously r…
I get this attitude--I really do. But I think the world moves on, and our children are not going to think this is even slightly strange. As always, it's us old-timers who have the hardest time with change. I also think this is "art" in service of commerce. This is OpenAI advertising their goods using art/design/writing. That's no different than cereal companies using Elmer's glue instead of milk for their photoshoots…
Right… I’m sure Zuckerberg thought the same about metaverse.
This is the last place to get a reasonable take of how the average person feels about this stuff.
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#953Pretty mixed feelings on this. From the page at least, the images are very good. I'd find it hard to know that they're AI. Which I think is a problem. If we had a functioning congress, I wonder if we might end up with legislation that these things need to be watermarked or otherwise made identifiable as AI generated.. I also don't like that these things are trained on specific artist's styles without really crediting…
You might be onto something. I find every image unsettling. they're very good no doubt, but maybe it disturbs me because all of it is a complete copy of what someone else created. I know, I know, there is no pure invention. That's not what i mean. Humans borrow from other humans all the time. There's a humanity in that! A machine fully repurposing a human contribution as some kind of new creation, iono i'm old, it's…
No the reason you feel uncomfortable is because it is theft - a wealth transfer.
Not sure why we need to pretend what is and isn’t going on here.
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#954do they have anything similar to SynthID, or are they just pretending that problem doesn't exist? I know this is probably mega cherry-picked to look more impressive, but some of the images are terrifyingly realistic. They seem to have put a lot of effort into the lighting.
I think they do, and it's even scarier than SynthID. Look closely at the generated images and you'll start to notice some diamond-shaped high-frequency patterns in different parts of the image (tree crowns, vegetation, hair, textures, clouds). May be just a random bug, but for me it looks like the watermark is baked into the image details themselves and all the details follow this pattern. But it leads to unnatural results somewhere, i.e.:
https://x.com/rrnld_y/status/2047070630802006211/photo/1
https://x.com/Melothemyth777/status/2046963312357679540/phot...
https://x.com/kuroinu_ni/status/2047118826920440287/photo/1
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#955One of the images in the blog ( https://images.ctfassets.net/kftzwdyauwt9/4d5dizAOajLfAXkGZ7... ) is a carbon copy of an image from an article posted Mar 27, 2026 with credits given to an individual: https://www.cornellsun.com/article/2026/03/cornell-accepts-5... Was this an oversight? Or did their new image generation model generate an image that was essentially a copy of an existing image?
I checked all the images on the blog post and I'm quite sure that the one you talk about isn't there.
They removed it. I have screenshots on my blog. bengarcia.dev/archives
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#956Earlier quoted context omitted.
I get this attitude--I really do. But I think the world moves on, and our children are not going to think this is even slightly strange. As always, it's us old-timers who have the hardest time with change. I also think this is "art" in service of commerce. This is OpenAI advertising their goods using art/design/writing. That's no different than cereal companies using Elmer's glue instead of milk for their photoshoots…
Right… I’m sure Zuckerberg thought the same about metaverse. This is the last place to get a reasonable take of how the average person feels about this stuff.
I never tried the metaverse. I don't own any Bitcoin. But I literally use AI every day.
I acknowledge that I'm not particularly good at predicting the future, but I'm confident that AI is here to stay.
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#957Earlier quoted context omitted.
The closest match I found was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44562052 The article tries to play sleight of hand with the specific instance that they cite but it seems that the loss of water is alleged to be caused by sediment from construction rather than water use. It's not great that it happened and it is something local government should take action on, but it is also something that could have been caused by…
That's exactly the article I was thinking of. Data center construction exposing weaknesses in local infrastructure is a double-edged sword; you wanna know if things need upgrading but you don't wanna be negatively affected by it. Maybe there should be some clause in these contracts that mandate tech companies foot the bill for local infrastructure improvements.
In that case it does not depict the scenario you suggested.
This is not a data center issue at all, it is a construction issue, that it was a data center being constructed was incidental.
I believe there are regulations that cover things like this already.
To characterise it as representative or specific to data centers is ad best disingenuous.
Re: ChatGPT Images 2.0
#958A great technical achievement, for sure, but this is kind of the moment where it enters uncanny valley to me. The promo reel on the website makes it feel like humans doing incredible things (background music intentionally evokes that emotion), but it's a slideshow of computer generatated images attempting to replicate the amazing things that humans do. It's just crazy to look at those images and have to consciously r…
Why are so many on HN unable to see through the B.S. and hype? Everything in the trailer feels unvaried and derivative. It does text and filters well (grit/grain, UI etc) but all the posters, comics, and infographics feel the same. They've all got matching structure and color palettes and once you've seen enough of them, you can easily spot them in a crowd. I'm not sure why people are falling for this, the AI voices…
No taste.
No point trying to reason with them.
These products don’t stick - just like sora they’re seemingly cool initially but then people go back to what were already doing ex-ante.
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#959Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don’t blame the tools. Stalin, Mao and Hitler didn’t need AI.
That pro forma response grows oh so very tiresome. For the nth time: scale, easiness, and access, matter. AI puts propaganda abilities far beyond the reach of those men in the hands of many more people. Do you not understand the difference between one man with a revolver and an army with machine guns? They are not the same. Nowhere in my comment am I “blaming the tools”. I’ll ask you engage with the argument honestly…
Did you do a net benefit calculation? If not, all these knee jerk anti-AI comments are tiresome and predictable (see luddites).
> I’ll ask you engage with the argument honestly instead of simply parroting what you already believe absent reading
I did engage with argument. The argument is a tiresome old argument that is knee-jerk anti tech. You seem to be the thoughtless one in this discourse repeating for the infinite time an anti-tech position assuming net negatives outweigh massively net +ves.
Also, why attack me instead of the argument? Did I touch a logical sore point? I believe so.
> For the nth time: scale, easiness, and access, matter.
By that logic, So the printing press was evil? Remember, Mao/Stalin/Hitler used presses to spread their propaganda.
Also, for the n+1 time, using your own style, don't be lazy:
1. Come up with a net benefit calculation for AI. What? You can't? Then, don't try to claim this is all net negative.
2. Explain how AI is different from other tech like the printing press, that also had scale, easiness, and access.
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#960This is not as exciting as previous models were, but it is incredibly good. I am starting to think that expressing thoughts in words clearly is probably the most important and general skill of the future.
> I am starting to think that expressing thoughts in words clearly is probably the most important and general skill of the future.
I don't know if even that matters much in future. Somone will build a layer that makes it simple enough for everyone to use.