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by bastawhiz 1420 days ago
> The pictures in this case uses techniques and colors scheme widely used by illustrator in the entertainment industries.

"Widely used" seems to negate your point here, no? I would expect a machine to use widely used techniques, rather than ones specific to individual artists. I don't know about you, but I've never seen DALL-E replicate an art style that isn't popular enough to be common knowledge.

> Some of them are even above the average quality and that's scary too.

Is your suggestion to make systems like DALL-E worse? Or to forbid the creation of systems that exceed a certain measurable performance?
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nonethewiser 1420 days ago
It's purely luddite reasoning. The real objection is that it makes artists less valuable.

Which is unfortunate, because they already arent that valuable (save for the top ~1%). But it's not a good reason to oppose DALL-E.

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quadcore 1420 days ago
The real objection is that it makes artists less valuable.

Close but not exactly. How do they feel about it?

At some point if we all feel bad, well this is very bad.

Maybe we should ban DALL-E for the same reasons we ban hard drugs: for the health of the community.

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bastawhiz 1418 days ago
How do the weavers, whalers, candlestick makers, lamp lighters, and everyone else made redundant in the last few centuries feel? Why do artists find themselves special? The only reason they have avoided automation this long is because we haven't made machines that can think with any sense of creativity until now.

Many of us will become redundant thanks to automation in the next few decades. That's just how it is.

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