I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E

I have experienced violent or harmful settings to be avoided by DALL-E. E.g. setting a person on fire. Same with drowning - seems to be impossible/hard to generate

Hmm, I haven’t tried DALL-E yet but Midjourney mentions that negative prompting dont tend to work well. See here: https://midjourney.gitbook.io/docs/resource-links/guide-to-p...

They got a solution for that, which is using their —no argument. https://midjourney.gitbook.io/docs/imagine-parameters#prompt...

I haven’t checked if DALL-E has that option too.

Otherwise, you could try other variations like:

street light, light pole, lamp pole, lamppost, street lamp, light standard, or lamp standard

I copied that from Wikipedia :)

Best of luck!

I think DALL-E might be programmed to not depict violence, which is why it doesn't "like" rendering humans on fire.

The person is on fire. On top of the fire in the image.

Clearly it will have trouble making Rene Magritte paintings along those lines, too :)

Is this "confirmed fixeD"/different in DALL-E 2?

It will yell at you and threaten your account with termination if you try to create anything based on a living person's face, from what I can tell.

My experience was that if you name a celebrity (and the request isn't blocked) it quite often generated something that has the same general vibe of the target, while also looking entirely unlike them.

It reminds me of how TV shows often have a president that resembles the current president in superficial ways, while being distinct enough that they won't get sued.

I'd be interested to know why this happens.

DALL-E is capable of very high quality photorealistic images with the right prompts.

Here's one I made: https://imgur.com/yAzKkHb

“High detail, macro portrait photo, a handsome Australian man with a strong jaw line, blue eyes and brown hair, smiles at the camera, set in an outdoor pub at golden hour, shot using a ZEISS Supreme Prime lens”

It is actually incredibly capable but if you're looking for photorealistic images of people, it needs very specific directions. I learned a lot from this person creating AI portrait photography: https://old.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/wsi97q/some_of_my_p...

Ok you owe me $3! This is a really hard prompt, and only got close-ish with inpainting. Got the base figure with "massaged relaxed flattened person, flat, flat, flat, flat, claymation", then finally got it to add a not-too-terrifying face with "photograph of smiling white woman laying on the ground, promotional photography". Final tweaks to erase some artifacts (it really didn't want to believe the figure on the left was the referenced woman) was "photograph of a wooden floor with a white mat and small plants, overhead shot".

DALLE is hard! Curious to see if I can be beat.

https://imgur.com/a/tuyGjxp

What are the results when you describe "a person without bones receiving a massage"?

> an image of someone who's been massaged so much their body has been flattened, as if they were made of dough or jelly

do you want a realistic looking one? 3d rendered? what do you have in mind exactly?

I didn't know that I needed this.

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

If they had bothered to read the license agreement they would know whoever generates the art owns the copyright. Since it's a pay-for action the copyright is owned by the payee.

So really they generated these and never bothered to do the research of their own question.

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.

In the case of celebrities yep. It can generate original photorealistic (or whatever style) faces, but they won’t let you generate the faces of real public figures AFAIK.

probably less than the amount of energy being burned by people browsing hn.

None of the AI generators retrieve things they were trained on, they don't work that way. Everything is original. However our definition of "original" might vary a bit, but so it will vary for any work of art any human artist do as well, as they are also trained on the same images. In the end, a lawsuit and a courtroom might have to decide if by chance someone or some AI creates a picture used commercially that seems similar to someone else's trademark or copyright.

Most of the images I've generated using Dalle 2 feels completely original. Just have a look at the reddit r/dalle2 and I'm pretty sure you'll also decide they're "original works".

Here's what I got with the prompt "something original":

https://imgur.com/a/RsQ2q1d

So I guess "something original" means "everything you've seen before on Instagram"

It’s hard when it was trained on everything pretty much. That’s the same problem as with GPT3. In my mind it’s still brute forcing a solution but instead of endless computation it’s endless examples

"DALL-E" in titles is about to be replaced with "Stable Diffusion." The beta website is already live but the interesting part will be specialized fine-tuned models based on public weights. There should be more technical experimentation since Stable Diffusion weights are only a few GBs and inference can be run on any recent GPU. There might also be more controversies because it can create more uncensored images.

Somebody posted a nice comparison between DALL-E 2, Mid Journey, and Stable Diffusion: https://twitter.com/fabianstelzer/status/1561019187451011074.

I actually thought there were some interesting things revealed here. Particularly interesting to me were the Nevermind and Abbey Road results.

Nevermind because it showed this weakness in the model in understanding what a dollar bill is. The most novel result being the image where the baby's visage appears inside the dollar.

Regarding Abbey Road, I found it interesting that the model's concept of a public person spans their lifetime evidenced by the images where the contemporary images are used. Also interesting to me is the model's weakness in understanding specific people.

Then again though, I haven't been clicking on every DALL-E post so maybe this is old news.

It will probably get boring the same time HNers stop confusing “hmm this isn’t that interesting guys” as notable commentary that needs to be shared.

To me the most interesting thing about the article was actually just how bad the results are. It's interesting that you picked the Dark side of the moon one, as to me that seemed by far the worse one - none of the pictures really resembled the simple geometry of the original. While I understand why recreating the Nevermind cover was difficult, it was surprising that recreating such a simple geometric pattern failed so spectacularly.

The only cover that really worked from my point of view was the Velvet Underground one, and perhaps the Rolling Stones one. Abbey Road came closer than what I thought it would, but was pretty bad ultimately, and the other three really had nothing usable.

Just like images after text, pretty sure once the novelty of images ends we'll move to animations, music, movies, computer games, and so on.

Generative art and by extension DALL-E has a very fast attention decay imo. We can't avoid noticing patterns and getting bored by them. This makes art and music fun because the things that stick and stay interesting JUST DO for some unknown reason.

I love this kind of bad humor of HN.