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An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip

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1503 points participant3 | 3 comments | 03 Apr 25 17:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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wkirby ◴[04 Apr 25 14:11 UTC] No.43582693[source]▶
I agree with the sentiment elsewhere in this thread that this represents a "hideous theft machine", but I think even if we discard that, this is still bad.

It's very clear that generative has abandoned the idea of creative; image production that just replicates the training data only serves to further flatten our idea of what the world should look like.

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1. simonh ◴[04 Apr 25 16:08 UTC] No.43584444[source]▶
Right, the focus is on IP theft, and that’s part of it, but let’s set that aside.

How useful is an image generator that, when asked to generate an image of an archaeologist in a hat, gives you Harrison Ford every time?

Clearly that’s not what we want from tools like this, even just as tools.

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2. skeaker ◴[04 Apr 25 17:32 UTC] No.43585490[source]▶
Not an expert with this stuff but could you not just put "Harrison Ford" in the negative prompt?
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3. simonh ◴[05 Apr 25 01:41 UTC] No.43589711[source]▶
First, that only works for potential biases you already know about and can anticipate, or can spot in the output. If the result is an egregious ripoff or an artist you’ve never heard of, or is the likeness of a model or actor you’re not aware of, how would you know?

Second, it doesn’t create the kind of originality we want. It just limits the kind of unoriginality we are getting.