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PaperclipPerfector  4mo ago (text post)   3179 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for December 8, 2023

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AI-generated images are here - and they're awful.

Dall-E 3 seems to have crossed the line into "good-enough" territory that many smaller websites are now using AI-generated images. It seems, unfortunately, that Dall-E 3 has a style. And that style is awful. The scenes are always far too busy, everything is cartoony, and the colors are oversaturated.

It's the new Corporate Memphis.

It also makes me feel super racist that I have to constantly tell it to draw white people since it has an even looser grip on historical accuracy then Bridgerton.

Isn't it amazing that DALL-E 3 has prompts? Those little text input boxes where you can specify the styles and content, be it in the style of video game concept art, minimalism, expressionism, and just about anything you can think of?

PEBKAC right here. I'm not going to defend their approach to diversity being prompt injection of random diverse ethnicities and genders.

At any rate, they've been here for more than a year, welcome to 2023, just about in time to meet 2024.

Was the sarcasm really necessary?

Not strictly, but I am still immensely frustrated by claims that AIs, be they LLMs or image generators, have intransigent styles that can't be modified by something as simple as telling it to.

Sometimes the problem does exist between the keyboard and chair, and here it certainly does.

At any rate, if a new piece of technology comes out and doesn't do exactly what I want, my first instinct is to look for a solution, and it clearly hasn't been done to any reasonable degree, because otherwise there wouldn't remain a problem in need of solving.

Not strictly, but I am still immensely frustrated by claims that AIs, be they LLMs or image generators, have intransigent styles that can't be modified by something as simple as telling it to.

You're not wrong, but really, throwing "PEBKAC" at someone is not helpful and is unnecessarily antagonistic.

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