{"id":2847,"date":"2022-04-29T01:23:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T05:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=2847"},"modified":"2022-04-29T02:57:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T06:57:54","slug":"ai-generated-images-are-getting-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=2847","title":{"rendered":"AI generated images are getting better!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I <a href=\"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=2752\">posted about creating AI art<\/a>. The website I mentioned, <a href=\"https:\/\/creator.nightcafe.studio\/\">NightCafe<\/a>, is still around and has added interesting new features, but the images it generates still primarily lean to the abstract side. It doesn&#8217;t generate much I would consider of very practical use beyond having fun.<\/p>\n<p>But just a few weeks ago, OpenAI announced <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/dall-e-2\/\">DALL-E 2<\/a>, and the images it generates are much more mind-blowing and exciting. Here&#8217;s a brief overview of the tech from\u00a0<em>Two Minute Papers<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X3_LD3R_Ygs\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What a time to be alive!<\/p>\n<p>Granted, the examples shown in the video and on OpenAI&#8217;s website are cherrypicked. There are some other examples out there that look a bit more wonky. It still doesn&#8217;t seem to be great with human faces, for example, or things requiring a lot of finer details, and it&#8217;s awful with generating text in images.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another video describing the tech:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U1cF9QCu1rQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Despite its weaknesses, it still looks enormously more useful, fun, and exciting than the AI image generators I looked at in that post from last year. I of course added my name to the waitlist. I&#8217;d love to experiment with it, but I probably won&#8217;t get access anytime soon. But DALL-E 2 definitely looks like something I&#8217;d be more than willing to pay for (assuming the price isn&#8217;t overly expensive). I can at least imagine creating useful images to accompany blog posts, short stories, book or album covers, or something.<\/p>\n<p>Amazing stuff!<\/p>\n<p>ETA: Also check out this mind-blowing art book of 1,000 robot paintings by DALL-E 2 in various styles: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/1111101000-robots\/mode\/2up\">1111101000 Robots<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I posted about creating AI art. The website I mentioned, NightCafe, is still around and has added interesting new features, but the images it generates still primarily lean to the abstract side. It doesn&#8217;t generate much I would consider of very practical use beyond having fun. But just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[262,83],"tags":[845,855,854],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-JV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2847"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2851,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions\/2851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}