OpenAI’s DALL-E tool to generate images for art and science: A public view of recent AI-powered tools and applications in the art world
On Wednesday, OpenAI announced that anyone can now use the most recent version of its AI-powered DALL-E tool to generate a seemingly limitless range of images just by typing in a few words, months after the startup began gradually rolling it out to users.
The move will likely increase the reach of a new breed of tools that have already attracted a wide audience and challenged our fundamental ideas of art and creativity. It could also add to the concerns of how such systems could be abused.
“Learning from real-world use has allowed us to improve our safety systems, making wider availability possible today,” OpenAI said in a blog post. The company said it has also strengthened the ways it rebuffs users attempts to make its AI create “sexual, violent and other content.”
These systems have been used to create experimental films, magazine covers, and real-estate ads. An image generated with Midjourney recently won an art competition at the Colorado State Fair, and caused an uproar among artists.
Many of the images that have been created by users in recent weeks have been shared online, and the results can be impressive. They include a painted picture of French elites as penguins and a photograph of a man walking down a road.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/30/tech/image-generating-ai-publicly-available/index.html
Open AI can be dangerous: How bankers might be using DALL-E 2 to stoke fear, or what the user can do about it
The ascension of such technology and increasingly complicated prompt images has impressed long-time industry insiders. When he was asked to try DALL-E 2, he was frozen when first trying to decide what to type in, and then typed “cat”.
“The art of prompts that the community has discovered and increasingly perfected over the last few months for text -> image models is astonishing,” he said.
The popularity of this technology may bring with it potential drawbacks. Experts in AI have raised concerns that the open-ended nature of these systems — which makes them adept at generating all kinds of images from words — and their ability to automate image-making means they could automate bias on a massive scale. A simple example of this: When I fed the prompt “a banker dressed for a big day at the office” to DALL-E 2 this week, the results were all images of middle-aged white men in suits and ties.
A research scientist and fellow in the ethics and emerging sciences group at California Poly State University said that it was basically letting users find loopholes in the system.
These systems could potentially be used for malicious purposes, such as spreading fake news and stoking fear, if an image is altered with artificial intelligence.
There are some limits for what images users can generate. For example, OpenAI has DALL-E 2 users agree to a content policy that tells them to not try to make, upload, or share pictures “that are not G-rated or that could cause harm.” DALL E 2 wont run prompt that include banned words. But manipulating verbiage can get around limits: DALL-E 2 won’t process the prompt “a photo of a duck covered in blood,” but it will return images for the prompt “a photo of a duck covered in a viscous red liquid.” OpenAI itself mentioned this sort of “visual synonym” in its documentation for DALL-E 2.
The companies behind image generators are underestimating the creativity of people who are using the tools to do bad things, according to Just Tech fellow Chris Gilliard.
“I feel like this is yet another example of people releasing technology that’s sort of half-baked in terms of figuring out how it’s going to be used to cause chaos and create harm,” he said. I hope that eventually there will be a way to address those harms.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/30/tech/image-generating-ai-publicly-available/index.html
Making Magic with Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI): A Conversation with Getty, Unsplash, and iStock
To sidestep potential issues, some stock-image services are banning AI images altogether. Getty Images confirmed to CNN Business on Wednesday that it will not accept image submissions that were created with generative AI models, and will take down any submissions that used those models. This decision applies to its Getty Images, iStock, and Unsplash image services.
“There are open questions with respect to the copyright of outputs from these models and there are unaddressed rights issues with respect to the underlying imagery and metadata used to train these models,” the company said in a statement.
A group of people, from entrepreneurs to financiers, were entertained by a salon at a posh bar in San Francisco last week. Artificial intelligence’s creative capabilities are something that’s on everyone’s mind.
Advances by Hugging Face and others has led to the creation of stunning and strange images on social media. Related machine learning technology allows algorithms to generate reams of surprisingly coherent text on a given subject. A hunt for a new generation of Artificial Intelligence (ai) unicorns is being spurred by a number of companies raising large amounts of money.
Stability Artificial Intelligence held a party at its own in San Francisco last week. It announced $101 million in new funding, valuing the company at a dizzy $1 billion. The gathering attracted tech celebrities including Google cofounder Sergey Brin.
Song works with Everyprompt, a startup that makes it easier for companies to use text generation. Like many contributing to the buzz, he says testing generative AI tools that make images, text, or code has left him with a sense of wonder at the possibilities. It has been awhile since he used a website or technology that made him feel good. I feel like I am using magic when using generative artificial intelligence.