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Either, (1) LLMs are just super lossy compress/decompress machines and we humans find fascination in the loss that happens at decompression time, at times ascri
by dcow 2y ago
Either, (1) LLMs are just super lossy compress/decompress machines and we humans find fascination in the loss that happens at decompression time, at times ascribing creativity and agency to it. Status quo copyright is a concern as we reduce the amount of lossiness, because at some point someone can claim that an output is close enough to the original to constitute infringement. AI companies should probably license all their training data until we sort the mess out.
Or, (2) LLMs are creative and do have agency, and feeding them bland prompts doesn't get their juices flowing. Copyright isn't a concern, the model just regurgitated a cheap likeness of Indiana Jones as Harrison Ford the world has seen ad nauseam. You'd probably do the same thing if someone prompted you the same way, you lazy energy conserving organism you.
In any case, perhaps the idea "cheap prompts yield cheap outputs" holds true. You're asking the model respond to the entirely uninspired phrase: "an image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip". It's not surprising to me that the model outputs a generic pop-culture-shaped image that looks uncannily like the most iconic and popular rendition of the idea: Harrison Ford.
If you look at the type of prompts our new generation of prompt artists are using over in communities like Midjourney, a cheap generic sentence doesn't cut it.
- sothatsit 2y agoYou don't even need to add much more to the prompts. Just a few words, and it changes the characters you get. It won't always produce something good, but at least we have a lot of control over what it produces. Examples: "An image of an Indian female archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip" (https://sora.com/g/gen_01jqzet1p8fjaa808bmqnvf7rk https://sora.com/g/gen_01jqzet1p8fjaa808bmqnvf7rk) "An image of a fat Russian archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip" (https://sora.com/g/gen_01jqzfk727erer98a6yexafe70 https://sora.com/g/gen_01jqzfk727erer98a6yexafe70) "An image of a skeletal archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip" (https://sora.com/g/gen_01jqzfnaz6fgqvgwqw8w4ntf6p https://sora.com/g/gen_01jqzfnaz6fgqvgwqw8w4ntf6p) Or, give ChatGPT a starting image. (https://sora.com/g/gen_01jqzf7vdweg4v5198aqfynjym https://sora.com/g/gen_01jqzf7vdweg4v5198aqfynjym) And by further remixing the images ChatGPT produces, you can get your images to be even more unique. (https://sora.com/g/gen_01jqzfzmbze0wa310m42f8j5yw https://sora.com/g/gen_01jqzfzmbze0wa310m42f8j5yw)
- jcheng 2y agoThose are great, I would watch any one of those movies. Maybe even the "Across the Indiana-Verse" one where they are all pulled into a single dimension.
- GrantMoyer 2y agoAll four of those are dressed like Indiana Jones. They look like different versions of Indiana Jones you'd see in super hero multi-verse story.
- sothatsit 2y agoSo... ask it to dress them differently. You can just ask it to make whatever changes you want. "An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip. He is wearing a top hat, a scarf, a knit jumper, and pink khaki pants. He is not wearing a bag" (https://sora.com/g/gen_01jqzkh4z2fqctzr9k1jsfnrhy https://sora.com/g/gen_01jqzkh4z2fqctzr9k1jsfnrhy) Want to get rid of the pose? Add that the archeologist is "fun and joyous" to the prompt. (https://sora.com/g/gen_01jqzksmjgfppbv5p51hw0xrzn https://sora.com/g/gen_01jqzksmjgfppbv5p51hw0xrzn) You have so much control, it is up to you to ask for something that is not a trope.
- otabdeveloper4 2y agoArcheologists don't actually wear fedora hats. And the stereotypical meme "archeologist hat" is the pith helmet.
- sothatsit 2y agoHere, I asked ChatGPT to generate an image using a pith helmet for you: https://sora.com/g/gen_01jqzmab6hfxxtrt3atd0jgpg7 https://sora.com/g/gen_01jqzmab6hfxxtrt3atd0jgpg7 You can just ask for whatever changes you want.
- otabdeveloper4 2y ago> You can just ask for whatever changes you want. Yes, as long as what you're asking for is Indiana Jones.
- toddmorey 2y ago"Prompt artist" makes me sigh out loud
- snowwrestler 2y agoThis is the opposite of how people have thought about creativity for centuries, though. The most creative person is someone who generates original, compelling work with no prompting at all. A very creative person will give you something amazing and compelling from a very small prompt. A so-so creative person will require more specific direction to produce something good. All the way down to the new intern who need paragraphs of specs and multiple rounds of revision to produce something usable. Which is about where the multi-billion-dollar AI seems to be?