DALL-E is still highly probabilistic in its judgement. For instance, in this article, it keeps putting "fire" in the the background on something that is likely to be on fire, rather than lighting up the person.

I have a similar experience. In my own experiment, I can't get DALL-E to turn off the street lamp at a bus stop in the darkness. I've tried "no light", "broken street lamp", etc.; no use. Any mention of "street lamp", the scene will include a working street lamp.

It's just more probable that a scene with a lamp in the darkness must have that lamp providing light, and this is something that DALL-E will not break out of.

Worth noting that DALL-E automatically “rejects attempts to create the likeness of any public figures, including celebrities". So, you wouldn't be able to get an image that included the 4 Liverpudlians. It does allow you to create fake faces. Might be fun to try and recreate Miles Davis Tutu, Aladdin Sane, Piano Man.

Man, after seeing Stable Diffusion's output, DALL-E's looks just janky. Like watching a propeller plane after seeing a jet.

Crazy how fast the tech is moving.

After getting access to the beta, combined with all these HN posts -- I've determined DallE2 is neat but no where as great as the initial samples made me believe.

An upvote for whoever can give me a prompt to generate an image of someone who's been massaged so much their body has been flattened, as if they were made of dough or jelly or something.

I spent ages on this earlier getting nowhere. I'm starting to think DALL-E is better if you don't really know what you want and you're just fishing for ideas.

Have anyone given a prompt to Dall-e of designing a company website and included “make it pop!”?

Maybe the AI will finally get what designers always complained about annoying clients.

I love seeing people experiment with this technology. You can feel we’re on the cusp of something great - whatever it is, we’re just not quite there yet.

> The question is, when the music blows up and the artwork becomes a signature, like the Rolling Stones' Tongue & Lips, who will own the copyright?

That’s what trademarks are for.

How do you know that the album covers are not part of the corpus of images that DALL-E was trained on in the first place?

Interestingly related, I just used AI image generation to create my EP cover.. first I tried running luciddrains dall e 2 PyTorch implementation using the prompt “death by Tetris EP album cover 2022” unfortunately I am using a Mac Pro so the gpu was not able to work. Then I tried imagen PyTorch implementation and used same keyword. This time it was working with the CPU unfortunately 2 days in we had a power outage so I had something but nothing complete. So I fed the generated image into the google dream generator and got my album cover!

https://willsimpson.hearnow.com/

There are a lot of articles focusing on how close does DALL-E match some prompt, but I wonder if this is a suboptimal way to explore the medium.

What if you can get a lot more out of it by embracing the unexpected responses. Can it be a tool for exploring lateral thinking? You provide a prompt computer responds with images that are a prompt to human. A baby swiming next to a dolar bill outputs a distorted person face inside a dolar bill with some baby features, could be the start to a rabbit hole of prompts and images where you'll end up with something completly different than your initial expectations.

It's interesting that the prompts that would do badly in a Google image search also seem to be the ones that make poor prompts. Basically, it seems that rather than describing a scene, you have to try to give an analogy for some image(s) that it might have in its training set - which is why, I believe, "banana in the style of Andy Warhol" produces a much higher quality result than "Outline of prism on a black background in the middle of scene splits a beam of light coming from the left side into rainbow on the right side".

Although AI artists will destroy a lot of jobs, it will also create demand for new jobs for people who specialize in “paint overs” – taking a high concept output created by AI artists and touching it up to perfection.

Or perhaps even beyond just a paint over, and into the realm of recreating an entire AI artwork but with a human touch to get details just right.

Looking forward to it.

DALL E works really well if you are specific enough. When you don't get the intended result, it helps to identify the element which wasn't generated properly and then improve your description of the same.

"Two men, one of whom is on fire, shaking hands on an industrial lot." can be rewritten as, "Two men, shaking hands, standing on an industrial lot. Person on the right is on fire. Camera is 30 metres away."

You can go into more specifics of the framing and the angle from which you want the picture to be take. By default, DALL E will give you the most realistic generations to your prompts unless you mention "digital art" or a particular art style. I have gotten the best results when generating art instead of photos.

I haven't gotten to try it for myself, but I've read a few of these blogs that take you through generating examples or even look-alikes to older art pieces.

It surprisingly reminds me a lot of when I traveled to Japan without knowing really any Japanese. I needed to communicate not only with friends who don't know much English either, but also other people (like restaurant wait staff, train station staff, etc.).

I used Google Translate often, but many times I or my friend(s) (or the other people) would need to re-write our statements a few times until the translation result clicked well enough in each other's languages to be understandable.

Is the issue with faces a deliberate choice by the devs?

I've been recreating the 50 worst heavy metal album art using AI as well, currently at 30. Recently I've found Stable Diffusion plus DALL-E inpainting to be a good combination.

https://twitter.com/P_Galbraith/status/1560469019605344256

Very cool. But it just goes to show the impact of human creativity. The conceptual aspect.

No Smell the Glove cover, this is a black day for rock and roll!

If you gave those same instructions to humans I’m sure the output would be just as varied. I’d be interested to see a comparison between dall-e and humans.

I'd love to see what it had come up with if simply prompted for "Album cover for Nevermind by Nirvana"

I wonder, how much energy is being burned for these kinds of experiments.

It's going to leave all those artists without a job, you just wait!!

Prompt:

> Create a website design for a company that sells propane and propane accessories. The name of the company is Strickland Propane, a local propane dealership. Make it pop.

Results:

* https://i.imgur.com/Jv7NJEN.png

* https://i.imgur.com/5Uiyg1R.png

* https://i.imgur.com/LL1DC11.png

* https://i.imgur.com/buv5BvS.png

So there you have it :p

There are some quite intriguing answers to your query. We now have a thing that generates "art" in response to an input.

I suggest learning how to use a few graphics packages instead when you have a need. eg, this evening my wife wanted to print a birthday card for a dog that she is boarding. I fired up Inkscape and discovered a bug wrt handling an imported photo, scaling it and cropping it with a mask. lol! I was able to export it to a .png and print from something else.

Anyway, I was a little unfortunate and IT is still rather shakey. However, discussions about DALL-E are way more interesting than actually using it yourself. You see some seriously intelligent solutions to getting a desired image that is surely a form of programming. DALL-E does not even have a real natural language pre-processor because it is hamstrung to dump pejorative terms etc. This means that I can draw the classic, dreadful plan of the cargo hold of a slaver ship from the 17/18C and its cargo but I doubt DALL-E can.

The q&a about this thing are way more complex and interesting than its actual output! A is right, I it isn't. DALL-E is quite interesting but it really isn't intelligent. The intelligent bit is getting the input right for the desired output. Perhaps another model could be developed for that.

This isn't really how DALLE works AFAIK but a very fun idea nonetheless. Here's a quick more simplified experiment than the great work above: "website design mockup.", with and without "Make it pop!"

https://imgur.com/a/fy2Uq4x

I am already doing exactly that, and am getting paid for it.

I am a logo artist and I sell pre-made logo designs. Before the current AI services I had to come up with visual ideas by myself, like a caveman. Now I use the AI to generate a bunch of sketches and blurry ideas, and then use my graphic design experience to polish them up to a usable level. Here's how it looks. https://imgur.com/a/DKTsKdC

I am absolutely sure that a lot of people are doing the same right now, just keeping quiet about it.

Here's another spin on this:

Imagine you're a software developer. In the near future, your manager wants a feature implemented in your company's app. He throws together a short mail with requirements and sends it to the prompt engineering department.

The prompt engineers fix a few typos, clean up the grammar and pepper a few secret sauce keywords around like "in the style of firefox", "in the style of kde". This get thrown into Microsoft Copilot 3.0 that barfs out a bunch of code.

Copilot's code has inconsistent indentation, three different method naming conventions and some variables named in a foreign language. It runs, but crashes if you tap on the lower left corner of the screen and allows you to drag the order quantity below 0. But that's ok, it's why we employ software engineers like you in our company. You will use your years of coding experience to touch up AI code to perfection. Better get the details just right until Monday all-hands!

Still looking forward to it?

> taking a high concept output created by AI artists and touching it up to perfection.

When you put it like that, it sounds like a nightmare up side down world. It's not AI that's the tool for enhancing human creativity. It's humans that are the AI's tool, cleaning up the edge cases the AI artist can't handle (yet). It destroys creative jobs that give joy to people and creates assembly line jobs for them to slog in.

The new copyright washing industry is nearly upon us.

As a professional artist, this sounds like hell.