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The barriers to AI engineering are crumbling fast

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251 points lewq | 4 comments | 14 Nov 24 14:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.602s | source
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sourcepluck ◴[14 Nov 24 16:23 UTC] No.42137760[source]▶
I feel like I see this comment fairly often these days, but nonetheless, perhaps we need to keep making it - the AI generated image there is so poor, and so off-putting. Does anyone like them? I am turned off whenever I see someone has used one on a post, with very few exceptions.

Is it just me? Why are people using them? I feel like objectively they look like fake garbage, but obviously that must be my subjective biases, because people keep using them.

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1. vunderba ◴[14 Nov 24 19:29 UTC] No.42140159[source]▶
That picture doesn't even have anything to do with the contents of the post either.

Reminds me of the image attached to Karpathy's (one of the founding members of openAI) twitter post on founding an education AI lab:

https://x.com/karpathy/status/1813263734707790301

I just don't understand how he didn't take 10 seconds to review the image before attaching it. If the image is emblematic of the power of AI, I wouldn't have a lot of faith in the aforementioned company.

If you're going to use GenAI (stable diffusion, flux) to generate an image, at least take the time to learn some basic photobashing skills, inpainting, etc.

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2. rurp ◴[14 Nov 24 21:31 UTC] No.42141447[source]▶
You aren't exaggerating! There are some creepy arms in that image, along with the other weirdness. I'm surprised Karpathy of all people used such a poor quality image for such a post.
3. sourcepluck ◴[14 Nov 24 21:41 UTC] No.42141529[source]▶
Yeah, wow. And it's a lovely post otherwise, too!
4. aeturnum ◴[15 Nov 24 00:42 UTC] No.42142896[source]▶
A trend I see in the "frothiest" parts of the AI world is an inattention to details and overwhelming excitement about things just over the horizon. LLMs are clearly a huge deal and will be changing a lot of things and also there are a bunch of folks wielding it like a blunt object without the discernment to notice that they're slightly off. I'm looking forward to the next couple of decades but I'm worried about the next five years.