So much of current AI-generated stuff is derivative sludge that I'm enjoying the pockets of weirdness where I find them. One of my favorite things right now: DALL-E3's attempts to label things in the images it generates.
Here I asked "Please generate a cross section of a gourmet chocolate with
A CRITICAL FIELD GUIDE FOR WORKING WITH MACHINE LEARNING DATASETS
Maybe you’re an engineer creating a new machine vision system to track birds. You might be a journalist using social media data to research Costa Rican households. You could be a researcher who stumbled upon your university’s archive of handwritten census cards from 1939. Or a designer creating a chatbot that relies on large language models like GPT-3. Perhaps you’re an artist experimenting with visual style combinations using DALLE-2. Or maybe you’re an activist with an urgent story that needs telling, and you’re searching for the right dataset to tell it.
Since deep neural networks are hard-to-interpret mathematical functions, discussions and debate over “AI” art is partly expressed in analogies. Analogies are useful: they help us identify how the new thing might end up being similar to old things. The ability to think with analogies may even be key to ingenuity. But they hide differences. Each analogy are useful in some ways, misleading in others.
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Major & Important AI-Generation News from Adobe | Shutterbug
Adobe announced major and important AI-generation news and the best thought-out, purposeful rules to protect nearly everyone in the source artist-to-end-user chain. Here are the major takeaways. Adobe has addressed the major societal AI apprehension pinch points—the stuff that makes some people go bat-dung crazy about the proliferation of AI-assisted anything. If you’re unfamiliar with Adobe’s AI-assisted tools, start with these two Shutterbug stories: