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My experience with these announcements is that they're cherry picking the best results from a maybe several hundred or a thousand prompts.

I'm not saying that it's not true, it's just "wait and see" before you take their word as gold.

I think MS's claim on their quantum computing breakthrough is the latest form of this.

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> My experience with these announcements is that they're cherry picking the best results from a maybe several hundred or a thousand prompt

just tried it, prompt adherence and quality is... exactly what they said, it extremely impressive

The examples they show have little captions that say "best of #", like "best of 8" or "best of 4". Hopefully that truly represents the odds of generating the level of quality shown.

Some of the prompts are pretty long. I'm curious how iterations it took to get to that prompt for them to take the top 8 out of.

I'm not doubting it's an improvement, because it looks like it is.

I guess here's an example of a prompt I would like to see:

A flying spaghetti monster with a metal colander on its head flying above New York City saving the world from and very very evil Pope.

I'm not anti/pro spaghetti monster or catholicism. But I can visualize it clearly in my head what that prompt might look like.

Here you go: https://chatgpt.com/share/67e3d3dc-b234-8004-b992-b559fc5038...

Have you tried it? It's crazy good.

Can it be tried? ChatGPT still uses DALL-E for me.

No offense but after years of vaporware and announcements that seemed more plausible than implausible, I'll remain skeptical.

I will also not give them my email address just to try it out.

Why are you making blanket statements on things that you haven't even tried? This is leaps and bounds better than before.

No offense but do you believe it when microsoft announces they have solved quantum computing?

And to prove it they only need your email address, birth date, credit card number, and rights to first born child?

I don't believe it when Microsoft announces it, but when two separate trustworthy-looking hn accounts tell me something is crazy good that seems like valuable information to me.

No offense but you are really obnoxious.

None taken. I never said I wasn't.

why not use a fake email address?

it’s rolling out to users on all tiers, so no need to wait. I tried it and saw outputs from many others. it’s good. very good

Chat GPT requires logging in with an email. I hesitated on that.

That's why I prefer to wait.

You can create e-mail addresses for single use, even temporary ones.

I got the occasional A/B test with a new image generator while playing with Dall-E during a one month test of Plus. It was always clear which one was the new model because every aspect was so much better. I assume that model and the model they announced are the same.

You should try it out yourself.

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