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[–]cench[S,M] [score hidden] stickied comment (2 children)

Thanks everyone who contributed to Part 2.

The original idea was deciding a winner image, but all generations are uniquely interesting. So here is a collage of prompts and resulting images.

Top left: original image

Top right: reference dalle2 created by a user with access

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Imitation game consisted of two parts, selection and imitation.

In this first part, /r/dalle2/ community has selected a real "target" image by voting redditor entries from a royalty free stock image provider.

In the second part, we had a selected target image and asked /r/dalle2/ community to post detailed prompts as comments. All prompts were used by dalle2 users for generations.

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For details, see the Part 2 here: https://old.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/ua5xm1/dalle_2_imitation_game_part_2_read_sticky_for/

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(thanks to /u/pisush/ for the idea, and /u/danielbln/ for generations.)

[–]Goldisap 29 points30 points  (9 children)

Please do more of these contests! The example prompts will give folks a much better idea of how to detail the text prompt to deliver a more accurate result

[–]orenog 17 points18 points  (8 children)

One of the best results vis literally gibrish!

(Middle one on the left)

[–]cench[S] 4 points5 points  (6 children)

I guess that's a superpower coming from gpt data set experience. Model can probably understand various kinds of weird typos.

[–]orenog 14 points15 points  (5 children)

"vibrentishushing" is beyond weird typo, I think this person was an AI

[–]flawy12 1 point2 points  (3 children)

vibrentishushing

maybe it is a word in another language?

[–]orenog 5 points6 points  (2 children)

0 google results for it

[–]danielblndalle2 user 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I'm guessing auto-correct. Meant to spell vibrant-ish.

[–]orenog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Auto uncorrect

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

pfft, what do you know - you're probably not even a photographererirst.

[–]The_PJG 23 points24 points  (8 children)

It's very clear to me now after being on this subreddit for a few days and now especially after this experiment just how absolutely powerful Dall-e 2 really is. It's clear that if you're careful enough with your wording and if you really try, you can quite easily force any exact image, asthetic and composition that you want. This technology is truly revolutionary and I don't think people are realising just how absolutely nuts this is.

[–]ry8 14 points15 points  (5 children)

Could not agree more with "This technology is truly revolutionary and I don't think people are realising just how absolutely nuts this is."

[–]The_PJG 17 points18 points  (4 children)

Honestly! I don't think the general public can actually comprehend how truly revolutionary this is. I've already seen comments from people in this sub talking about them showing this technology to their friends or family, and getting the tiniest to no reaction from it, like it's no big deal or they can't see why this is so exciting.

Even I showed this sub to my dad, and all the images and explained everything to him, and I expected a massive reaction out of him just like me, especially considering he is very tech savvy and likes to keep up with technological advances and such, but even he didn't have that much of a reaction as I expected. He basically just said "Oh yeah technology is really advancing these days" or something along those lines. Like ?????? Are you not seeing how CRAZY THIS IS???

[–]DolphinsAreGaySharks 9 points10 points  (1 child)

Dalle has opened my eyes to what is possible. This technology will easily move into 3d and sound. It all ready works with interactive narratives. One day I will be able to ask a computer to "create a scifi detective story on the moon." Then slip on my ar/vr googles. I will basically get to use the holodeck from Star Trek in my lifetime.

[–]camdoodlebop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

and we’re the only few who even realize it right now

[–]Odesit 5 points6 points  (1 child)

I've noticed that too with a lot of people. Maybe they think the AI is only modifying images from the internet, or they think since the internet is so immense that all these images already exist and the AI is merely slightly modifying them. I think for them to be truly impressed they would need to have access to the tool and play with it, see in front of them how THEIR personal description that THEY think no one else has thought of becomes a creepy reality in front of their eyes

[–]The_PJG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly what you just said. For people to really understand they have to play with it themselves. Sadly we still have to wait a bit before we have that option ourselves :')

[–]beezlebub33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a genie!

You just have to pick your prompt very, very carefully.

BTW, this is closely related to the AI alignment and control problem. How, exactly, do you tell an AI what you want, in a way that it understands, and does not have unintended consequences. So much of the time, human language has a huge amount of context, ambiguity, shared experience, and common assumptions about what is meant that getting an AI to understand what we mean (versus what we actual said) is a hard problem.

Perhaps Dalle-2 can help us. Actually, sounds like a good research paper: Implications for the AGI Control Problem based on DALLE-2 Prompt Engineering.

[–]camdoodlebop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah i don’t think it’s hit yet for most people, just a few people online lol

[–]Veedrac 12 points13 points  (4 children)

I made a little puzzle from this: https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/115879/

(A picture is worth how many words again?)

[–]cench[S] 9 points10 points  (2 children)

Hahaha... that's like an advanced captcha test.

[–]Veedrac 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Oh no, I think nobody is going to get the answer. Never underestimate the internet.

[–]Veedrac 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's inevitable now you've said it, lol.

[–]Arbata-Asher 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I stole it to share it on social media, thanks.

[–]danielblndalle2 user 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Great idea combining them all like that!

[–]cench[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks, I was planning to do one to one comparisons but it looked better adding all of them on one page.

[–]The_PJG 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Also I just realized how cursed some of the hands are lmao. I mean just look at the top tight for example. That thumb is simply nightmarishly long.

[–]cR_Spitfire 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thank you for doing this little experiment! I can't wait for the community to have access to DALL-E to make even more amazing creations.

[–]Master_Vicen 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Super confused here. Can someone give me an ELI5 of what any of this even is? I only barely understand how AI art even works.

[–]MadaMinecraft 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's really impressive !

[–]-phototrope 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The top middle one is freaky

[–]No-Intern2507 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thats too ai friendly

[–]camdoodlebop 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i can’t believe it, it’s so amazing

[–]Nlat98dalle2 user 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Will future rounds of the game still be limited to stock photos? It would be interesting if people were allowed to post their own art, or outputs from other image generating AI models. As long as they meet the OpenAI guidelines of course, no people etc.

[–]cench[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This may be possible, but the contribution must be fully royalty free. This is extremely difficult to admin, as a solution, the artist may upload their art to one of top royalty free sites and share it from there.