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I think it's just a common sort of ex nihilo first steps example of the technology that's easy to show off to anyone, and it's a good example of how the results

I think it's just a common sort of ex nihilo first steps example of the technology that's easy to show off to anyone, and it's a good example of how the results can be iterated and cherry-picked to filter out the most garbage-laden images to get stuff that's basically (what another commentor called) "visual lorem ipsum". There's a lot more that stable diffusion can do when there is a feedback loop between the user and the computer, but I don't think it's very easy to convey with pop articles or even long form ones - I hope one day everyone has a chance to approach models like this and learn from them in their own way, and I appreciate articles like this in their attempt to get a wider audience interested in the technology.

bmitc 4y ago
That’s a well balanced perspective. And I don’t mean to be a Luddite or anything, but I just don’t think I see what this will be useful for outside of the typical advertising and abusive use cases. One use case I can currently imagine, outside of advertising, is maybe storyboarding, because you don’t really care much about fidelity or even style there, and it’s primarily a scaffolding tool. However, I’m not terribly sure of the feedback loop being anywhere near that of a director or cinematographer or writer sitting down with a storyboard artist. But maybe you don’t have access to a storyboard artist. There is a valid position of asking “why do we need this?”, and I don’t think it gets asked enough in technology. One thing I am sure of is that this type of machine learning art will be abused. There is an unfortunate inevitability though with humans and technology.
- YurgenJurgensen 4y ago
  I don't understand the motivation of the person who sees 60 hours of video uploaded to YouTube per second, 30+ new video games released on Steam per day, 100,000 songs uploaded to Spotify every day and 6,000 Tweets being made per second, and decides "You know what the World needs? A way of enabling more people to make more content faster."

bmitc 4y ago

That’s a well balanced perspective. And I don’t mean to be a Luddite or anything, but I just don’t think I see what this will be useful for outside of the typical advertising and abusive use cases. One use case I can currently imagine, outside of advertising, is maybe storyboarding, because you don’t really care much about fidelity or even style there, and it’s primarily a scaffolding tool. However, I’m not terribly sure of the feedback loop being anywhere near that of a director or cinematographer or writer sitting down with a storyboard artist. But maybe you don’t have access to a storyboard artist. There is a valid position of asking “why do we need this?”, and I don’t think it gets asked enough in technology. One thing I am sure of is that this type of machine learning art will be abused. There is an unfortunate inevitability though with humans and technology.

YurgenJurgensen 4y ago
I don't understand the motivation of the person who sees 60 hours of video uploaded to YouTube per second, 30+ new video games released on Steam per day, 100,000 songs uploaded to Spotify every day and 6,000 Tweets being made per second, and decides "You know what the World needs? A way of enabling more people to make more content faster."