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PaperclipPerfector  1yr ago (text post)   3460 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for September 8, 2023

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chatgpt is useful at things in which there seems to not be much use for. it's like a chess playing robot. amazing sight to behold, but who has use for that? even having it write an essay it comes off as un-human like. it is constrained to things which can be put in the input box/form, and not much out. it literally cannot go outside of the box. The fact that freelancer sites have not been hurt by chatgpt, which are the very simple jobs it is supposed to automate, shows how overblown the threat of AI job loss is.

Yeah. As someone who has been using stable diffusion/ai art generation nearly every day for quite a while, your box metaphor is pretty good. I feel like I keep hitting the walls of what's possible with it, and augmenting the capabilities of the AI take a lot of time and tweaking and technical skill that I'm lacking. It's also like it's so easy to get 90% of what I want from the AI but it can take ages and ages to get 100% what I want and even then it involves some old fashioned photoshop tweaking post generation most of the time. I ran into the same issue with chatgpt stuff too but my skills are more in visual arts than in language arts so I hit the walls faster with chatbots as I'm less able to coax out useful stuff with chat than I can with image generation.

Have you messed with controlnet much? Getting posing right before generation has made a huge difference for me.

I've messed around a bit with controlnet, but it's usually not people/poses I have issues with but the style of imagery. Like most models are trained on tons of anime and deviantart/pixiv style artwork and I am always going for a really specific style (like, say, Fujifilm documentary style photography from a specific year) so I'm always adding tons of tags in the negative to try to get away from the irrelevant styles in the training set that it wants to keep spitting out. Training my own LORAs with imagery I pick out has given me better results w this but I've just started doing that the other day so I'm still figuring it out

I've found it to be great at figuring out the name of something you vaguely know about but don't know enough to start searching. I would never trust anything it says without verifying somewhere else first because it completely messes up at least 2-3% of the time, so it's only useful as an idea generator and not trustworthy enough for any production task. That said, many times it's given me enough clues for what keywords to search for that it's helped find primary sources.

ChatGPT != GPT-4

This might explain part of your feeling. Personally, I use it a lot for research. It's much more efficient than surfing the web. If it saves me 1 hour of work per week that's a couple hundred dollars of value at least in my profession.

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