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I agree that the horse picture sucks. Other people might say that they like Dall-E’s output on Twitter, for signalling purposes, but I still think they don’t really believe that.

Still, it’s only a matter of time till nicer graphics are possible. Most graphic designers and artists are still worse than this thing, especially the type that bought a $200 drawing tablet on Amazon and sell their services on Fiverr. Those people are no better than Dall-E, just like most copywriters are no better than GPT-3.

Even if they are in fact better it’s only a few years till that changes. Deepmind can train a new model faster than you can go back to grad school.

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Exactly. Any content writer AI, developer AI, graphic designer AI just has to be good enough to cause an economic labor shift. There are plenty of non big tech companies that want affordable labor that can just get the job done. It doesn't need to be insanely good, although imo it will be in short order anyway.

The way I have put it to my artist friends is in the form of litmus test: If I sat at a local farmers market selling this art, people would likely buy some of it.

If the delineation can only be made because you are an art major, or practicing artist, that is not really compelling to your own market.

We are on the third generation of these type of "AI" and they are already past the point where people would exchange cash for a print of this work. It is only a matter of time until people are using these to generate the general picture and then drawing it using their preferred medium (e.g. oil, watercolor).

Not a bad idea: use the AI to generate some sketch for the user, then the user finishes it. You might be able to teach art this way, slowly reduce the help the AI gives a student over time until they don’t need the AI anymore, or perhaps at some point they’ll realize they like coloring more than drawing and just keep asking the AI to produce sketches they can fill in with color, depth, and texture.

This time has come already. Many contemporary painters already leverage this. Some artist, like Jon Rafman, have trained their own models to generate digital imagery.

I do think this can be thought of more like a sketchbook or a camera at the end of the day, since real contemporary art collectors will not go for a print from Dall-e 2 or Midjourney so readily. Make a painting from it and if it's a decent rendition it will likely sell.

Nicer graphics are already possible from freely available colab notebooks like StableDiffusion. DALLE has the cruded interface possible; it's more a demonstration that the idea works at all than something you could use.

And a strategic way for OpenAI to garner more than 1M business and people on their waitlist as I outline in the article.

How about now? Check out the Midjourney Discord bot. You can keep on doing variations and tweaks until you get one you like.

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