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If you play around with these tools the overwhelming majority of images are deeply disturbing. Melted faces, fused bodies, hands with unusual numbers of fingers

If you play around with these tools the overwhelming majority of images are deeply disturbing. Melted faces, fused bodies, hands with unusual numbers of fingers. I think this machine produces objects deep in the uncanny valley.

danielbln 4y ago
I've spent more time than I'd like to admit with Dall-E, Midjourney and SD and I disagree with your sentiment. Sure, you can create a bunch of weird creepy shit, but by no means are the overwhelming majority of images deeply disturbing, as you put it. Just scroll through https://lexica.art/ https://lexica.art/ which catalogs 10M+ StableDiffusion images, most aren't even close to being disturbing and are in fact aesthetically quite pleasing.
- simonh 4y ago
  Those are selected images though, so not representative.
  - l33tman 4y ago
    You get 4-9 images at a time and it takes literally 2 seconds to look and decide which to save. Saying it's "unusable" because you CAN get bad images is missing out..
    - burnished 4y ago
      "representative" is not the same concept as "unusable", so you should not put quotes around that text. It's like going to the grocery, seeing a bin of beautiful apples and saying "every apple on the tree is beautiful". You can't draw that conclusion because those apples aren't representative of all apples because they went through a filtering process. In this case some one choosing to sell them. Upthread, some one choosing to share them.
      - danielbln 4y ago
        The images up thread were scraped, not cherry picked. So it's more like walking through an apple orchard.
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        burnished 4y ago
        I think my primary point, "no one was addressing usability just statistical power" still holds, but I concede your point. Fun fact, apples grown for market get some level of sun shading to keep them pretty. Too much sun damages their skin and can give them that sort of leathery look. Which now that I think about it is a filter itself, hardly germane anymore though.
  - danielbln 4y ago
    They are scraped from Discord, not cherry picked, so very much representative.
    - PeterisP 4y ago
      If they were scraped from Discord where others posted them, then they are scraped from a filtered source which contains only cherrypicked pictures that people chose to post, the ones they found interesting and good - it would be representative if and only if it had sampled also the pictures they generated but did not post.
      - Samin100 4y ago
        They're scraped from the Stable Diffusion bot which generated them. People didn't post the images themselves, so they're not cherry picked.
- indigodaddy 4y ago
  Cool! Interesting so I plugged in for prompts from “Captain Kirk”, and none of the images look much like William Shatner. More like a cross of an old Chris Pine with a tiny bit of Shatner thrown in.. https://lexica.art/?q=Captain+Kirk https://lexica.art/?q=Captain+Kirk Weird stuff
- dmarchand90 4y ago
  They're very impressive and while they all look great at a quick glance I still find most of them disturbing when I look closely. https://lexica.art/?prompt=ec869dfc-b31e-4310-84bd-fab9d1c9efac https://lexica.art/?prompt=ec869dfc-b31e-4310-84bd-fab9d1c9e... is a good example, where it looks ok at first but you realize that the limbs are freakish and mutated most of the time. For many look at the eyes and teeth!

danielbln 4y ago

I've spent more time than I'd like to admit with Dall-E, Midjourney and SD and I disagree with your sentiment. Sure, you can create a bunch of weird creepy shit, but by no means are the overwhelming majority of images deeply disturbing, as you put it. Just scroll through https://lexica.art/ https://lexica.art/ which catalogs 10M+ StableDiffusion images, most aren't even close to being disturbing and are in fact aesthetically quite pleasing.

simonh 4y ago
Those are selected images though, so not representative.
- l33tman 4y ago
  You get 4-9 images at a time and it takes literally 2 seconds to look and decide which to save. Saying it's "unusable" because you CAN get bad images is missing out..
  - burnished 4y ago
    "representative" is not the same concept as "unusable", so you should not put quotes around that text. It's like going to the grocery, seeing a bin of beautiful apples and saying "every apple on the tree is beautiful". You can't draw that conclusion because those apples aren't representative of all apples because they went through a filtering process. In this case some one choosing to sell them. Upthread, some one choosing to share them.
    - danielbln 4y ago
      The images up thread were scraped, not cherry picked. So it's more like walking through an apple orchard.
      - deleted 4y ago
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      - burnished 4y ago
        I think my primary point, "no one was addressing usability just statistical power" still holds, but I concede your point. Fun fact, apples grown for market get some level of sun shading to keep them pretty. Too much sun damages their skin and can give them that sort of leathery look. Which now that I think about it is a filter itself, hardly germane anymore though.
- danielbln 4y ago
  They are scraped from Discord, not cherry picked, so very much representative.
  - PeterisP 4y ago
    If they were scraped from Discord where others posted them, then they are scraped from a filtered source which contains only cherrypicked pictures that people chose to post, the ones they found interesting and good - it would be representative if and only if it had sampled also the pictures they generated but did not post.
    - Samin100 4y ago
      They're scraped from the Stable Diffusion bot which generated them. People didn't post the images themselves, so they're not cherry picked.
indigodaddy 4y ago
Cool! Interesting so I plugged in for prompts from “Captain Kirk”, and none of the images look much like William Shatner. More like a cross of an old Chris Pine with a tiny bit of Shatner thrown in.. https://lexica.art/?q=Captain+Kirk https://lexica.art/?q=Captain+Kirk Weird stuff
dmarchand90 4y ago
They're very impressive and while they all look great at a quick glance I still find most of them disturbing when I look closely. https://lexica.art/?prompt=ec869dfc-b31e-4310-84bd-fab9d1c9efac https://lexica.art/?prompt=ec869dfc-b31e-4310-84bd-fab9d1c9e... is a good example, where it looks ok at first but you realize that the limbs are freakish and mutated most of the time. For many look at the eyes and teeth!