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To me, Dall-E seems analogous to a film production team that produces visual imagery reflecting a script written by a screenwriter. By the above reasoning, woul
by thaw13579 4y ago
To me, Dall-E seems analogous to a film production team that produces visual imagery reflecting a script written by a screenwriter. By the above reasoning, would that team would be producing "bullshit"? I think most people would think not, because the goal isn't to communicate objective truth about the world, rather something plausible, interesting, entertaining, etc. (unless it is a documentary).
I also think distinguishing bullshit from lying depends heavily on internal mental thoughts, goals, and intentions. Isn't talking about Dall-E this way personification and ascribing some level of consciousness?
- croes 4y agoThe production knows was it puts together Dall-E seems not
- thaw13579 4y agoExactly my second point. Producing "bullshit" requires some internal thoughts and intentions, as the parent put it "DallE generates the images it thinks you want to see" (emphasis mine). A very big claim, which is interesting to consider, but probably premature. However, I do think that Dall-E is able to learn complex high-order statistical associations, i.e. beyond just juxtaposing and visually blending objects. For a recent example, this post with a prompt "ring side photo of battlebots vs conor mcgregor": https://twitter.com/weirddalle/status/1554534469129871365 https://twitter.com/weirddalle/status/1554534469129871365 What is amazing here is the excessive blood and gore. That feature can't be found in any individual battlebot or MMA match, but it is exactly what you would expect from robots fighting a person. Pretty amazing, and I wonder at what point we could consider this analytical reasoning.
- tomc1985 4y agoI wonder if it made the association from being shown images with various kinds of fights, a large portion of which may have been bloody.