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I give it a few years before Google makes stock images irrelevant.
by endisneigh 4y ago
I give it a few years before Google makes stock images irrelevant.
- pphysch 4y agoThe entire "content" industry could get eaten by a few hundred people curating + touching-up output from these models.
- astrange 4y agoNo, competitive advantage means that it’s impossible to run out of jobs just because someone/something is better at it than you. (Consumer demand and boredom both being infinite is another thing working against it.)
- sydthrowaway 4y agoShort Getty images?
- tpmx 4y agoPrivately owned by the Getty family.
- tpmx 4y agoRolling this into Google Docs seems like a nobrainer.
- curiousgal 4y agoUntil they pull of the plug on it.
- semicolon_storm 4y agoOr rolling this into Google Image Search to create images that match users' search queries on the fly. Don't like any of the results from the real web? Well how about these we created just for you.
- riffraff 4y agoAh yes, deepfakes porn as a service would have been a blessing for teenage me.
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- ma2rten 4y agoGoogle is very conservative about anything that can generate open-ended outputs. Also these models are still very expensive computationally.
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- londons_explore 4y agoThey're expensive to train, but not awfully expensive to use. Especially if you have hundreds of images you want to generate (due to the way compute devices tend to get much more efficiency with a large batch size). Google could totally afford it, especially if the feature was hidden behind a button the user had to click, and not just run for every image search.
- tpmx 4y agoThe input control is pretty hard - it kinda needs an AGI :). How do you stop undesirable images being created?
- londons_explore 4y agoIf I were running Google, I would release it with a disclaimer, and not do anything technical to prevent undesirable images being created. How does Adobe prevent Photoshop being used to draw offensive images? They don't... People understand that a tool can be used for good and bad.
- zone411 4y agoWhen diffusion models are used, the inference time could be meaningful. But then this is only 64x64 with upsampling, so probably not too bad.
- makeitdouble 4y agoI really expect them to first make DALL-E and competing networks unfit for commercialization by providing the better choice for free, have stock companies cry in the corner, to just sunset the product a year or two down the road and we're left wandering what to do.
- notahacker 4y agoTbh imagine this tech combines particularly well with really well curated stock image databases so outputs can be made with recognisable styles, and actors and design elements can be reused across multiple generated images. If Getty et al aren't already spending money on that possibility, they probably should be.