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This might be exactly what they've done. But... it just might work?
It reminds me of the "query hacks" for Dall-E 2 that stopped being necessary in Dall-E 3. "Picture of an elephant. Stunning, beautiful, viral on Twitter, award-winning". It makes sense that integrating query hacks into the technology directly would be more effective than leaving it to the user.
It might, hell it probably will for the reasons you note (at the very least, normies who can't be arsed to write/steal proper prompts will definitely see legit major improvements), but this is not the caliber of improvement I'd expect for so much hype, especially if this turns out to be "the" strawberry.
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copetake here is - with the election on the horizon, OpenAI aren't dumb enough to risk inconveniencing the hand that feeds them in any way and won't unveil the actual good shit (IF they have any in the pipeline), but the vital hype must be kept alive until then, so serving nothingburgers meanwhile seems like a workable strategy.More options
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Something like those hacks is probably still going on behind the scenes thanks to insertions being made by ChatGPT when you use DALLE. The reason those hacks work is they help the model to zone in on the desirable part of the latent space, and DALLE3 is still a diffusion model, so there’s no reason to expect it works fundamentally differently from other diffusion models.
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