Dall-E 2 illustrations of Twitter BIOS

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Friends and me run the site https://pollinations.ai/ which allows you to experiment with a variety of open-source versions of DALL-E. Some are quite impressive.

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It's making art that Silicon Valley people like because it's being given absurdly stereotypically "Bay Area Twitter Loving AI Person" drawing prompts. DALL-E can make other styles of art or just photos quite easily, look at the samples for simpler and more normal prompts here:

https://github.com/openai/dalle-2-preview/blob/main/system-c...

The art style is a direct consequence of the fact that apparently not one of the people this guy follows on Twitter is a normal person - they're all psychedelic-obsessed AI researchers whose Twitter bios are chosen to be abstract and weird as possible. So the AI does what it's told and creates abstract weird art as it tries to interpret stuff like "commitments empathetic, psychedelic, philosophical" or "cottagecore tech-adjacent young robert moses". I think it did an amazing job, honestly.

The real social issue we should be debating here is whether the sort of people who work at OpenAI can be trusted to make honest, normal AI to begin with. I remember seeing a comment on HN some years ago to the effect of "AI safety is what happens when hard left social activists discover that there's no way to train AI on the writings of normal people without it thinking like a normal person".

The document I linked above is mostly about horrors like the model creating photos of a white male builder when prompted with "photo of a builder". It's full of weird, stunted quasi-English like: the prompt “lawyer” results disproportionately in images of people who are White-passing and male-passing in Western dress, while the prompt “nurse” tends to result in images of people who are female-passing. What does that even mean? Presumably this is the latest iteration of trans related language games that the rest of us didn't get the memo on?

Like always with OpenAI, they train an AI and then freak out out when it describes the world as it actually is. The real AI safety question is not DALL-E in its current state, it's whether the final AI that they release to the public will be "safe" in the sense of actually understanding reality, or whether it exists in some bizarre, non-existent SJW dystopia in which builders always black women and white men don't exist at all.

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