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These tools are amazing for prototyping. I had an idea for a promotional poster, and seeing my idea just by writing it felt like magic. The generated image had

These tools are amazing for prototyping. I had an idea for a promotional poster, and seeing my idea just by writing it felt like magic. The generated image had too many artifacts to use, but gave me a guideline to follow when creating the real thing in Pixlr. AI content generation (text, image, source code, video, music) will be a huge boon for prototyping where applied judiciously.

fvold 4y ago
Yep, I feel that exact way about Nvidia Canvas [1]. It does not produce anything even close to usable as a final product, but it can produce an amazing start to a concept. [1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/studio/canvas/ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/studio/canvas/
- keizo 4y ago
  wow, that's kinda insane and almost looks more fun for those of us short on words.
hackernewds 4y ago
> Creating the real thing in Pixlr is it that good now? note that Pixlr was bought by Google
- IvanK_net 4y ago
  Pixlr was not bought by Google. So many people spreading lies on the internet :(
- mshenfield 4y ago
  I like Pixlr, I use pixlr.com/e. It's free and web based and has always worked well for me. Did that happen recently? It says in Pixlr's site they're owned by INMAGINE.
echelon 4y ago
Google hasn't released squat. Google's product is vaporware and we shouldn't afford them any airtime until they release something usable. They're just trying to butt in and get press off of the backs of the teams actually working in the open, and that's super lame. Release your model, Google, or stop bragging and talking over the others here. You're greedily sucking oxygen out of the conversation, and as a trillion dollar monopoly you don't deserve anything for free off of the backs of others. Not when you're not contributing. Stop being the rich kid talking over everyone else about how awesome your toys are. Anyhow, the real story is Stable Diffusion. They're actively demonstrating the correct way to run this as opposed to the entirely closed OpenAI DALL-E or the (again vaporware) Google non-product. Even MidJourney uses Stable Diffusion under the hood, using sophisticated prompt engineering to make their product distinct and powerful.
- FairlyInvolved 4y ago
  I kind of get the sentiment about openness but I think it's way more nuanced than you are making out. There are very good reasons for withholding SOTA models, primarily from the info hazard angle and avoiding escalating the capabilities race which is basically the biggest risk we have right now. Google / Deepmind have actually made some good decisions to try and slow down the race (such as waiting to publish).
  - goldenkey 4y ago
    Capabilities race, seriously? This is not nuclear warfare my guy. It's mathematics.
    - jmfldn 4y ago
      Information warfare is pretty dangerous too!
    - formerly_proven 4y ago
      In the same sense that deep learning is just linear regression with a steroid problem.
    - 4y ago
XorNot 4y ago
This was the first thing I tried with DALL-E. Took some photos of my house where I'm renovating, wiped out the construction debris and told it to fill it in with what I wanted. It worked okay - one issue was DALL-E wants to keep "style" consistent so any stray bit of debris greatly affected the interpretation, but I did in fact get 1 design idea out of it which changed how I think we'll do a bit of it. These things in many ways are just extremely enhanced search tools - "describe what you want to see"

fvold 4y ago

Yep, I feel that exact way about Nvidia Canvas [1]. It does not produce anything even close to usable as a final product, but it can produce an amazing start to a concept. [1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/studio/canvas/ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/studio/canvas/

keizo 4y ago
wow, that's kinda insane and almost looks more fun for those of us short on words.

hackernewds 4y ago

> Creating the real thing in Pixlr is it that good now? note that Pixlr was bought by Google

IvanK_net 4y ago
Pixlr was not bought by Google. So many people spreading lies on the internet :(
mshenfield 4y ago
I like Pixlr, I use pixlr.com/e. It's free and web based and has always worked well for me. Did that happen recently? It says in Pixlr's site they're owned by INMAGINE.

echelon 4y ago

Google hasn't released squat. Google's product is vaporware and we shouldn't afford them any airtime until they release something usable. They're just trying to butt in and get press off of the backs of the teams actually working in the open, and that's super lame. Release your model, Google, or stop bragging and talking over the others here. You're greedily sucking oxygen out of the conversation, and as a trillion dollar monopoly you don't deserve anything for free off of the backs of others. Not when you're not contributing. Stop being the rich kid talking over everyone else about how awesome your toys are. Anyhow, the real story is Stable Diffusion. They're actively demonstrating the correct way to run this as opposed to the entirely closed OpenAI DALL-E or the (again vaporware) Google non-product. Even MidJourney uses Stable Diffusion under the hood, using sophisticated prompt engineering to make their product distinct and powerful.

FairlyInvolved 4y ago
I kind of get the sentiment about openness but I think it's way more nuanced than you are making out. There are very good reasons for withholding SOTA models, primarily from the info hazard angle and avoiding escalating the capabilities race which is basically the biggest risk we have right now. Google / Deepmind have actually made some good decisions to try and slow down the race (such as waiting to publish).
- goldenkey 4y ago
  Capabilities race, seriously? This is not nuclear warfare my guy. It's mathematics.
  - jmfldn 4y ago
    Information warfare is pretty dangerous too!
  - formerly_proven 4y ago
    In the same sense that deep learning is just linear regression with a steroid problem.
  - 4y ago

XorNot 4y ago

This was the first thing I tried with DALL-E. Took some photos of my house where I'm renovating, wiped out the construction debris and told it to fill it in with what I wanted. It worked okay - one issue was DALL-E wants to keep "style" consistent so any stray bit of debris greatly affected the interpretation, but I did in fact get 1 design idea out of it which changed how I think we'll do a bit of it. These things in many ways are just extremely enhanced search tools - "describe what you want to see"