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This is one space where I think generative AI would be helpful - generate pictures that look mostly right and fill a thumbnail or something on a webpage that do
by liminalsunset 3y ago
This is one space where I think generative AI would be helpful - generate pictures that look mostly right and fill a thumbnail or something on a webpage that doesn't necessarily provide indispensable information but nevertheless fills a void, and costs little. You could probably describe what was in the original photograph and/or draw a representation of it crappily in Paint and use generative AI to fill in the blanks, such that it wouldn't be considered a derivative work but rather just a representation of facts.
- userbinator 3y agoCurrently most AI-generated images still have a "not quite right" look to them, that perhaps not everyone will notice, but those who do will be turned away by it, so I don't think that's a good idea.
- lambertsimnel 3y agoI expect that will change over time. Until then, it would be nice to have some Fair Dealing exceptions for image copyright. Something like allowing non-profit use of a thumbnail to link to a licensed use of the corresponding image could help.
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- joegibbs 3y agoI think the thing that makes AI images (from Midjourney especially) look a bit off is that they're too shiny and professional. All the people have suspiciously flawless skin, like they've been edited in Photoshop, there's no grain, and the colours are too vivid and dramatic. It looks great but it just doesn't seem real. I gave it a try just then and the results tended towards cool-looking sunsets, reflective puddles, big dramatic stormy clouds and trees in bloom. I think this is a result of selecting images for how aesthetic they are, and you could probably train a model on more average-looking pictures to get more realistic results.
- ies7 3y agoLook at all those instagram stars, tiktokers, and youtubers with their beautify filters. They already made the "not quite right" to be the normal one on the internet.
- dalbasal 3y agoPrecisely. Culture is very adaptive to adaptive stimulus, and stimulus is high... very high. I think legal/contractual/economic structure is going to determine things, not human preferences. Preferences evolve.
- numpad0 3y agoIt's certainly interesting to watch if it sticks or it remains lesser equivalents, as right now GenAI data certainly seems less appealing.
- jon-wood 3y agoI feel like we’re in an ever escalating arms war here, with the result being an internet full of vacuous stuff posted just because that’s what everyone else does. Every blog post, tweet, and event listing must now have a bland stock image to go with it, even if that image has only a passing relationship with what’s being communicated. Why does an event need an image in the first place? Just don’t bother with one if you care so little about what it looks like.