educaysean

Are you against all forms of bankruptcy in general? Or just when it involves student tuitions?

> If you want an image of a <race> <gender> person included, you can just specify it yourself.

I agree wholeheartedly. So what are we arguing about?

What we're seeing is that DALL-E has its own bias-balancing technique it uses to nullify the imbalances it knows exists in its training data. When you specify ambiguous queries it kicks into action, but if you wanted male white CEOs the system is happy to give it to you. I'm not sure where the problem is.

I just tried it out and it looks like DALL-E isn't as inept as you imagined. Exact query used was 'A profile photo of a male south korean CEO', and it spat out 4 very believable korean business dudes.

Supplying the race and sex information seems to prevent new keywords from being injected. I see no problem with the system generating female CEOs when the gender information is omitted, unless you think there are?

If I was using this in South Korea, how is showing all white people any better than showing whites, blacks, latinos and asians?

This article is music to my ears. As a Feedly user of 6+ years, it's everything that I've felt and more. Thanks for putting into words the frustration that's been building up inside me for a while.

It's ironic how you associated the English language font with the U.S. by default while complaining about everything being U.S. oriented. A fine illustration of how we're blind to our own biases yet others appear so obvious.

Your argument is that the 1st Amendment is not one of the strongest legal protection of speech in the world?

I'm not well versed in other nations' approach as it pertains to free speech. Can you enlighten me in terms of how other countries provide legal protection for speech in a way that you perceive to be "stronger" than the U.S? I can't imagine a functioning code of laws that allows for yelling fire in a crowded theater whose nation isn't straight up incapable or corrupt.

Count yourself lucky thay you didn't have the misfortune of working for any Asian companies. Big or small, most are extremely hierarchical and your loyalty to a specific director/VP is the only currency that matters.

Here I was feeling bad that a feature I designed and released had some edge cases around a small browser feature I hadn't fully considered.

This article is truly inspiring - I guess shouldn't be so hard on myself if the very government that runs this country is constantly [m]ucking things up time after time. But hey, the people affected are only the poor and the disabled who make up the bottom rung of our society, so who cares right? If anything 33 years was a blazing fast turnaround time.

> being perfect designs at the expense of thoughts of usability

This is an oxymoron. Being a desinger doesn't mean that you focus on making things look good while someone else comes along and reminds you about "usability". A design isn't "perfect" if it has usability problems. Any designer worth their salt will be the first to tell you that.

Even here on hackernews you can see people fiercely defending DeSantis' action as "not retribution", claiming that it's somehow beneficial for Florida to dissolve the district.

We're living in strange times. Ideas like like civility and good faith debates have all but disappeared and each side is blaming the other for the state of politics today and continue to use that as an excuse for their own toxic behavior. It's a straight race to the bottom.

The article doesn't seem heavy on opinion. It's just reiterating and summarizing facts that are available for us to review if we wanted. Did you notice any implicit biases or agendas within the article?

Well obviously it was a "business decision". Are we supposed to be moved by the fact that the ultimate decision was based on greed?

Companies can care about their bottom line while serving their community in a responsible manner. Companies going carbon neutral are doing it to improve their image, etc. but the consequences have net benefits for the society. No one's going to call that irresponsible. Feeding the patent troll market with the money that was donated to fight them off? Irresponsible.

I see where the disconnect is. I have a hard time placing your bar for being considered "westernized". Can you cite me the names of some nations that you regard as falling below the threshold?

My post is not whataboutism. It's pointing out the absolute dearth of evidence linking higher scamming rates to societies that value individualism.

A more proper name for this would be a "counter example", and it's something you should absolutely expect as a response when you put forth statements online.

You really think US has so many scammers and fraudsters? You obviously have no idea how rotten outwardly-civilized societies such as South Korea are. The scale of investment frauds and various other scamming operations taking place there are a constant plague, and the regulators are comically unprepared to deal with it time after time. South Korea is also a notoriously group minded society built on Confucius ideals and a strong sense of nationalism / ethnocentrism. I've no idea how you arrived at your theory, but it just sounds incredibly adsurd to me.

I'm guessing you don't believe god is real but would chose to lie to your child and say that he is real? How is that any better than telling the truth?

Yeah, learning this fact definitely dulled my initial astonishment. These are still really fantastic results, but it's hard to feel too excited without the knowledge of just how much curative efforts took place behind the curtain.

The tool seems to be not open to public "yet". Nothing nefarious. You can join the waitlist here: https://openai.com/dall-e-2/

Ah, I wish this fact had been highlighted better. Not a criticism of the tweet author; it's just that twitter threads really aren't designed to convey context.

Wow, okay. I'm kind of blown away at how authentic these paintings look. Even with a very conservative prediction of how these tools could evolve and improve over the years, the signal is strong that our relationship with the meaning of "art" itself will have a fundamental shift.

Is there a fundamental truth you know that is being denied? I commute to Market St weekly and my own experience is that the city is emptier and less vibrant but not unsafe for workers going on about their daily lives. Poop and homelessness are plenty, sure, but that's sort of always been the case and not a new phenomenon. Am I now participating in denialism by sharing my own experience? How does your experience in SF look like?

My haphazard guess from zero evidence: they may have ran some A/B testing on their platform that compared showing full price vs hiding the fees, and have come away with the conclusion that their conversion rate is x% higher when deploying the dark pattern. What such studies fail to measure is the cost of eroding brand trust, but this is just one possible scenario.

I get the points you're raising and I agree with the premise. My comment is not a critique on the one choice made by Open AI specifically, but more of a vague lamentation in regards to the internet culture that we've somehow ended up in 2022. I don't want us to go back to 1999 where snuff videos and spam mails reigned supreme, but the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction at this point in time. It feels like more and more companies are choosing the path of neutering themsely to avoid potential PR disaster or lawsuits, and that's on all of us.

I have degrees and several years of experience in both fields, and I can tell you that both are creative professions where output is unbounded and the measure of success is subjective; these are the fields that will be safe for a while. IMO it's fields such as aircraft pilots who should be most worried.

This feels unnecessarily hostile. I've felt a similar tinge of disappointment upon reading that paragraph, despite the fact that I somehow knew it was "their service, their call" without you being there to spell it out for me. It's also incredibly shortsighted of you to assume that people are interested in exploring this tool only as a means of generating art that they cannot themselves do. Eg. I myself am a software engineer with a fine art background, and exciting new AI art tools being released in such a hamstrung state feels like an insult to centuries of art that humans have created and enjoyed, much of which depicted scenes with nudity or bloody combat.

I feel like we, as a species, will struggle for a while with how to treat adults like adults online. As happy as I am to advocate for safe spaces on the internet, perhaps we need to start having a serious discussion about how we can do so without resorting to putting safety mats everywhere and calling it a job well done.

According to the linked article, Jon appears to be one of the co-founders

Your answer reminded me of the Ford quote: "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

I don't mean that in a derogatory sense, I just strongly believe that in 20 years we'll look back at our Googling years and wonder how we managed to find anything at all. Who know what the next pattern of information retrieval will be, but I personally think it'll be an even bigger jump than the jump from reference desks and encyclopedias to Google.

Edit: okay, maybe not 20 years. Decades, perhaps.

> principles of open and free discourses with less moderation

That is an ideology

> For example, would you call it ideological that the government does not arrest people for criticizing it?

Um, yes

Protected groups in the US extend beyond just sex and race. There's age, religion, national origin, sexual preference, and disability status just off my head.