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Eh... maybe I am less up-to-date on the current state of AI image generation, and I don't feel like I'm fully up-to-date with DALL-E 3's capabilities. But my e
by danShumway 3y ago
Eh... maybe
I am less up-to-date on the current state of AI image generation, and I don't feel like I'm fully up-to-date with DALL-E 3's capabilities. But my experience around GPT has been that sometimes articles like this play up a controversy that may not have really changed much or that might be fueled by different causes or social conditions, and they play up that controversy as a way of playing up the capability of a specific model. This is very common with GPT: "our model is so good that it's dangerous." Sometimes worrying publicly and loudly about something is just a marketing technique.
So I don't know that DALL-E 3 is the reason that artists are mad about this, and I'm not completely sure that they are significantly madder than they used to be, and it's not clear to me reading this article that anything beyond the opt-out form is specific to DALL-E 3. Artists are mad about AI image generation period, they are also upset about OpenAI's opt-out process (as one of many processes, Meta's opt-out process is even worse). But are they madder than usual about DALL-E 3's results? Are they actually mad about DALL-E 3 because they think it's crossing some technical milestone?
The title here is an editorialization on behalf of the article writer that does not seem supported by the text or sources. I don't see strong evidence from artists that DALL-E 3 in specific is such a shocking leap forward for AI image generation that they are suddenly now more worried about this than they used to be. Again, I'm not fully up-to-date on everything, so maybe it is a leap forward. But the article doesn't make that case, it just kind of says that DALL-E 3 is amazing and implies that the current conversations are specifically the result of DALL-E 3 being just so good.
I've just seen that play out before; I'm skeptical of any article that takes a general social trend and says, "this trend exists because this specific product is revolutionary." Is there a quote from an artist in this article that I've missed that is saying that DALL-E 3's capabilities have made them more worried about AI generated images?