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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.

Yeah, they're kind of shit and samey. You start to recognise everything about them, the way they're composed, how humans and animals look, the lighting, the contrast, which facial expressions they use etc.

That said, Corporate Memphis and generic stock photos were at least as bad or worse, and this tech seems to be rapidly improving. Maybe in a few years we'll actually have something spectacular and truly democratise visual art generation. We're almost there.

Maybe in a few years we'll actually have something spectacular and truly democratise visual art generation. We're almost there.

I think so. Better speed will handle much of it. Perhaps the image gen will make 1000 images and then an adversarial AI will choose the best 10. Then the human can pick one and use text prompting to refine it easily.

"Move the teddy bear a little to the left"

"Change the font size to be a little bigger"

"Can you make it a little more punk rock".

Etc...

I think we're about 2-3 years out.