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I guess the question is: Who cares? What is this for, except illustrating blogspam? It seems that more resources are being poured into verisimilitude across ge

by lsy 2y ago

I guess the question is: Who cares? What is this for, except illustrating blogspam? It seems that more resources are being poured into verisimilitude across generative models, but what is the business model or even human use case for it? A picture of a glorious landscape seems worthless to me without any grounding to be able to ask a question like, "where is that?", "when do those flowers bloom?", "what is on the other side of that mountain?" and receive any kind of interesting answer.

elicksaur 2y ago
1. Scams. Human deepfakes/fake-fakes to make you believe you’re communicating with a real person. 2. Self-image editing. You want a picture of yourself doing something you are unable to do. Could be benign, but very likely being used as a scam on social media in some way. 3. Marketing. Putting your product in some setting without having to do a photoshoot. People will argue this isn’t a form of scam, but it seems suspect to me.
- netsharc 2y ago
  Can't wait for an influencer that has thousands of travel pics, thousands of likes and comments, but they're all computer-generated. And then for the influencer to try to get freebies from companies in return for a favorable review in her feed. Also, asking AI for a generic image is a lot cheaper than paying for stock photos (do stock photo services still charge buyers a lot and pay photographers peanuts?).
elpocko 2y ago
HN's guidelines say "don't shit on other people's work". That guideline is heavily enforced sometimes, but goes out of the window at other times. It seems AI related stuff tends to be more on the "go ahead and take a dump" side of things.
- nicbou 2y ago
  This user asked a fair question in a polite way
  - elpocko 2y ago
    Go ahead and post "Who cares?" on any other Show HN post and see how it goes. I give it 10 minutes until it's flagged and dead.
nicbou 2y ago
I have no answer. I tried to use it to generate images when the alternative was costly or had a prohibitive licence. However it did not reproduce the mundane subject (German mailboxes, empty apartments without light fixtures, Berliner Altbaus) well at all. I did use it to make friends laugh in our little group chat, but in this case AI nonsense was not a bug but a feature. Artefacts added to the humour more often than not. I did plan to use it for deliberate art practice. It can generate unlimited subjects and let me see hundreds of variations of the same detail. It also lets me see the same concept in different styles. This could be useful. By and large though, image generation seems to be a tool for spam and porn.

by lsy 2y ago

elicksaur 2y ago

1. Scams. Human deepfakes/fake-fakes to make you believe you’re communicating with a real person. 2. Self-image editing. You want a picture of yourself doing something you are unable to do. Could be benign, but very likely being used as a scam on social media in some way. 3. Marketing. Putting your product in some setting without having to do a photoshoot. People will argue this isn’t a form of scam, but it seems suspect to me.

netsharc 2y ago
Can't wait for an influencer that has thousands of travel pics, thousands of likes and comments, but they're all computer-generated. And then for the influencer to try to get freebies from companies in return for a favorable review in her feed. Also, asking AI for a generic image is a lot cheaper than paying for stock photos (do stock photo services still charge buyers a lot and pay photographers peanuts?).

elpocko 2y ago

HN's guidelines say "don't shit on other people's work". That guideline is heavily enforced sometimes, but goes out of the window at other times. It seems AI related stuff tends to be more on the "go ahead and take a dump" side of things.

nicbou 2y ago
This user asked a fair question in a polite way
- elpocko 2y ago
  Go ahead and post "Who cares?" on any other Show HN post and see how it goes. I give it 10 minutes until it's flagged and dead.

nicbou 2y ago

I have no answer. I tried to use it to generate images when the alternative was costly or had a prohibitive licence. However it did not reproduce the mundane subject (German mailboxes, empty apartments without light fixtures, Berliner Altbaus) well at all. I did use it to make friends laugh in our little group chat, but in this case AI nonsense was not a bug but a feature. Artefacts added to the humour more often than not. I did plan to use it for deliberate art practice. It can generate unlimited subjects and let me see hundreds of variations of the same detail. It also lets me see the same concept in different styles. This could be useful. By and large though, image generation seems to be a tool for spam and porn.