Cleo Abram
Why DALLE, Midjourney, and other AI image generation tools are so controversial…
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You’ve probably heard about the AI that can make any image you want. With these, anyone can make art in seconds. Artists, understandably, have concerns about that. This technology has quickly become VERY controversial.
Since we got access to DALLE-2 a few weeks ago, my friend Justin and I have been sending our creations back and forth. It’s a lot of fun. Justin is a designer and animator who works with me on Huge If True. He’s an artist. I’m… not so much. What I noticed as Justin and I were making these is: His were way better than mine! It didn’t feel like the AI was leveling the playing field between us. It felt like it was giving me new skills, but it was giving HIM superpowers.
So, we set up a little competition to test that… and you voted on the results.
Along the way, we’ll explain how these artificial intelligence image generation tools (Open AI’s DALLE-2, Midjourney, stable diffusion, and more) really work, why they’re so controversial, and why they matter for our future.
00:00 Why am I hearing about AI art?
02:00 How to use DALLE
04:15 Thank you Storyblocks!
04:46 Round 1: Cleo with no AI
05:50 Round 1: Justin with no AI
06:36 How do AI art generators work?
08:09 Round 2: Cleo with AI
08:54 Round 2: Justin with AI
09:24 How does DALLE use artists’ work?
10:25 Should artists worry about AI?
11:12 Why is AI art so controversial?
12:08 What’s next for DALLE?
13:07 RESULTS
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For more art and animation from Justin: https://www.the11percent.com/
Sources and further reading:
– OpenAI’s tutorial for DALL-E 2: https://openai.com/dall-e-2/
– Free Hugging Face DALLE mini: https://huggingface.co/spaces/dalle-mini/dalle-mini
– Aditya Ramesh’s detailed explanation of how DALLE-2 works: http://adityaramesh.com/posts/dalle2/dalle2.html
– Midjourney’s community showcase: https://www.midjourney.com/showcase/
– Marques Brownlee’s DALLE review: https://youtu.be/yCBEumeXY4A
– Joss Fong’s explainer on how AI image generation works: https://youtu.be/SVcsDDABEkM
– “Generating Images from Captions with Attention” https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.02793
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Bio:
Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated video producer and journalist. Cleo produces detailed explainer stories about technology and economics. She wrote the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained, was the host and a senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, as well as a host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked. She now makes her own independent show, Huge If True. Each episode takes on one big technology innovation or idea, explains what it is, and helps people imagine the ways it could improve the world we live in by answering one simple question: If this works, what could go right?
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