Opinion on the OpenAI API (playground)? Is this the end of academia?

[Wendy Wheelchair]

Does anyone know how to get around the “credit” limit? I already used up my entirety of them in a matter of hours

 

[Site User 11]

credit limits huh...
Have any of you heard of Stable Diffusion's free DreamStudio AI? I've seen a few videos pop up recently and people are commenting that results are better than/equal to Dall E-2. I am not knowledgeable on the details though. There is also a thread on it already, but I haven't read through it yet.

This imagegen thing is actually pretty big in that it's pretty much the first time that something at that quality became so easily accessible to the masses. I feel the internet will get completely flooded by AI images in the coming months.

I really didn't expect this kind of stuff to start popping up until a decade from now. Right now, I feel there are definitely more downsides to these technologies than there are upsides specially in the introduction phase of the technology. I suppose this is going to be another "throw them into the deep-end and they'll learn somehow". My worries are that there might be too many of these types of technologies all rising in a small time frame. I hope it's just my caveman brain filling itself with unfounded paranoia though.

 

[AmpleApricots]

OpenAI, apparently spooked by SD (Stable Diffusion, a Dall-E 2-like fully open source image generation AI that's pretty good but still compact enough to run on a GTX 1060 with 6 GB of RAM at acceptable speeds, and yes it generates "unsafe" content galore if you want it to — I've seen so many generated nudes of various celebrities posted by people already) decided to slash it's prices to 1/3 starting september. Any mentioning of NSFW stuff being forbidden of being generated in their text gen has also vanished from their TOS. (I don't own a fancy suit but that is a company in damage control mode)

This imagegen thing is actually pretty big in that it's pretty much the first time that something at that quality (and complete lack of censorship and gatekeeping in any way) became so easily accessible to the masses. I feel the internet will get completely flooded by AI images in the coming months.

Spoiler: hot celeb nood

 

[AmpleApricots]

I really didn't expect this kind of stuff to start popping up until a decade from now. Right now, I feel there are definitely more downsides to these technologies than there are upsides specially in the introduction phase of the technology. I suppose this is going to be another "throw them into the deep-end and they'll learn somehow". My worries are that there might be too many of these types of technologies all rising in a small time frame. I hope it's just my caveman brain filling itself with unfounded paranoia though.

(doublepost because the quoting function is freaking out, sorry)

AI development in the last ~5ish years has been pretty much "going downhill with no brakes" and, like I saw myself with the internet boom in the 90s, at the current rate it's pretty clear that legislation in democratic countries will have no chance to catch up. Weird online times ahead!

To add content to this post - It also has a function where you give it a primitive drawing and it basically makes the drawing for you. I wonder how artists feel about this.

 

[Site User 11]

I've seen demos and stuff in the past, but that's all they were - demos. Now that I see it being used in the real world it's become apparent that the future is here and is likely going to leave many behind.

On artist sentiments, I've also seen some artists get upset that image gens are "copying" their art styles. I've also seen Nvidia do something similar with landscapes. NVIDIA GauGAN2 I think it was?

They have an AI playground site with demos of their stuff

Interactive Demos from NVIDIA Research

Interact with live demos based on NVIDIA Research, with links to whitepapers and GitHub source code

www.nvidia.com

To sort of get back to the original topic, perhaps, before an AI truly develops its own writing style and "comprehension" of what it's writing we'll see AIs copying the writing styles of well-known authors.
New Lord of The Rings volume releasing soon...

 

[AmpleApricots]

To sort of get back to the original topic, perhaps, before an AI truly develops its own writing style and "comprehension" of what it's writing we'll see AIs copying the writing styles of well-known authors.

Isn't all creative work derivative somehow? If not maybe directly from other authors, then not from life experiences that shaped you? Can you draw a sunset without ever having seen a sunset?

If I'd offer you a million bucks to draw me the sunset from one of the moons of alpha centauri, you'd try. You'd maybe go to google and google scifi book covers or artwork for that otherworldly edge. You'd also look at earth sunsets. Eventually you'd draw me that sunset (because you want the million bucks) is this creative work because you've never been on one of the moons of alpha centauri and therefore have never experienced the sunset you have drawn or is it derivative because you saw other sunsets before? At what point does the derivative work turn into creative work? When it's aesthetically pleasing and well put together? No, creative work isn't always "pretty", which is a highly subjective term to begin with. When you give it "soul", make it "unique"? That's a little vague isn't it?

To expand on this, I'll also offer the million bucks to two artists, one who is a skilled landscape painter and one who only draws anime tiddies. I'll consider you're no artist (sorry if that's wrong) so I'll assume you'll do the worst of the group, probably. The anime tiddie drawer will probably be able to pull it off somewhat (because he has experience with colors, composition, the tools etc.) but the landscape painter will do the best painting. Why is that? Because of experience. Because his art studies went into that particular direction. Is he more creative than the two of you? Or is his work in the end even more derivative because he's seen more related artwork and also has made it himself and draws from the experience of what worked in his previous work? What does creativity even mean here?

I think it's this human-centric complex showing itself again, that we're the omega of evolution (we haven't even proven yet that higher intelligence is a favorable survival trait for a species, makes you think about the fermi paradox) that everything that's touched by us has been touched by a soul.. but is that really a thing or is that just some subjective belief we made up because we're monkeys with anxiety? Aren't we just really complicated and efficient biomechanical computers who just work with a lot of data that can connect inside our brainbox in some very subtle ways sometimes?

These applied statistics exercises which the AIs are in the end are definitively a lot more primitive than us, that makes their copying crude and really obvious, that they still do so relatively well on some tasks should make people not dismiss them, but should give them pause.

 

[epigfroglover420]

 

[Crunk Sneedler]

I just discovered this thing and I feel late to the party. I accidentally hit submit and sent it an empty prompt / no prompt. Here's what it said for reasons I know not:

Like many of you, I’m sure, I have been having a rough time of it since Election Day. I’ve been feeling a little lost, a little angry and a lot of fear. I’ve been feeling hopeless and helpless. I’ve been feeling like I don’t know what to do with myself. I’ve been trying to find my footing. I’ve been trying to find my voice. I’ve been trying to find my strength. I’ve been trying to find my commitment. I’ve been trying to find my community. I’ve been trying to find my hope. I’ve been trying to figure out how to make sense of this election. I’ve been trying to figure out how to make sense of my own part in it.

I’ve been trying to figure out how to make sense of the people around me. I’ve been trying to figure out how to make sense of the people I never saw coming. I’ve been trying to figure out how to make sense of the people I thought I knew. I’ve been trying to figure out how to deal with the fact that so many people that I thought I understood have such different values than I do. I’ve been trying to figure out how to deal with the fact that so many people that I thought I understood have such different understandings of the world than I do. I’ve been trying to figure out how to deal with the fact that so many people that I thought I understood have such different understandings of the people around them than I do. I’ve been trying to figure out how to deal with the fact that so many people that I thought I understood don’t seem to understand me. I’ve been trying to figure out how to deal with the fact that I don’t seem to understand myself.

I’ve been trying to figure out how to deal with the fact that I’ve spent most of my life judging people for things that I’m guilty of myself. I’ve been trying to figure out how to deal with the fact that I’ve spent most of my life judging people for things that I’m guilty of myself and I’ve spent most of my life judging people for things that I’m guilty of myself

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And it went on repeating itself for a few pages until it stopped. I tried submitting nothing again, but that time it gave me a bunch of computer code I didn't ask for. I didn't stop to check what the code said or what it would do.