Amazed we haven't seen more DALL-E / Midjourney on HN. Probably the most astonishing new tech I've used since booting up a computer in the 90s.<p>Just generating images is barely doing the tools justice though - you can create entire mini movies with it, like SALT (a 70s sci-fi adventure happening on Twitter): <a href="https://twitter.com/SALT_VERSE/status/1536799731774537733" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/SALT_VERSE/status/1536799731774537733</a><p>DALL-E's inpainting feature is incredibly powerful to generate very large scenes:
<a href="https://twitter.com/fabianstelzer/status/1545752145273802752" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/fabianstelzer/status/1545752145273802752</a><p>Hard to believe that we're only beginning to scratch the surface here...
I dont know how artists feel about DALL-E but as an amateur I feel bad. "This should be forbidden" bad. I guess the root of this feeling is the same as the one Copilot gives OSS programmers, it feels like theft and copyright enfringement. The pictures in this case uses techniques and colors scheme widely used by illustrator in the entertainment industries. Some of them are even above the average quality and that's scary too.<p>Do we know if regulators are looking into Copilot and DALL-E? To which extent do we want computer doing what human do? I mean.. Art? Feels like bad taste to me.
During the beta, i must have done thousands of requests and was initially blown away, but now i can tell the "look" of a Dall-e generated image... it has these weird blurry spots that make it seem like a memory of a dream - the main schema is there but if you focus on any one point, the illusion is broken. Looking forward to the day that it is so polished that I cannot differentiate it from a human art piece.
Lots of weird artifacts which are very hard to fix.<p>The argument that users can now generate professional grade art by bypassing artists entirely feels so strange. I have access to Dall-E. To generate images without artifacts, you have to do one of these: a) Do a lot of cherry-picking which can be expensive. b) Prompt should be about an abstract concept which can "tolerate" any number of artifacts. c) Prompt should be about a common/generic concept that you have already seen a lot of times on the internet.<p>I think the biggest use case of Dall-E will be in removing creative block for artists.
I believe the next evolution in generative images is stringing them together!<p>If you can come up with the key frames with descriptions of the same style, a neat little program can interpolate them and produce a generative movie!
Somehow I find the Dall-E and othe AI generated pictures revolting … is it the choice of colors or what I don’t know? It’s like looking at an art piece without a soul ..