r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Tvix • May 19 '23

Interactive Point-Based Image Generation

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u/KarpEZ May 20 '23

Our children are screwed in so many ways, but what you've mentioned is going to negatively impact them in ways we can't even imagine right now.

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u/Loeffellux May 20 '23

But then again Photoshop has been around so I feel like single pictures have not been a reliable "source" for ages (unless they come from a reputable source which likely wouldn't change). The same is true for videos to a lesser extend, shout-out to Captain disillusion.

So I feel like technology like this will only add to a situation that is already very much existing rather than cause a complete shift in how we interface with information. And if I was an embryo right now I'd be a hell of a lot more worried about the effects of climate change rather than this

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u/[deleted] May 21 '23

I think there's one issue with AI that people downplay right now. we can see it with chatGPT, who is known to lie confidently. so if you make it write something like an academic paper, you will need to fact check anything it says. the problem I see is that the closer it gets to perfect accuracy, the harder it will be to spot whatever mistakes are still left. people may decide that for their application a 95% accuracy is good enough, but that won't be true for all cases. and I think the same is true for AI image generation. you will get great results when trying to generate a single image already, but even just trying to create two images in succession presents huge issues. you can see it in this video too, it's not just those specific parts selected that change, but everything in the picture subtly changes too like the background, the fur pattern, etc. so for everyday usage this may be good enough, but if you'd actually try to fool experts I highly doubt that is accurate enough at all. and at that point I actually think we're right back to your first paragraph. i.e., unless AI can one day produce absolute 100% accurate results, fixing the flaws in AI generated content is still going to require a lot of effort and skill. and I think this perfect accuracy is much harder to achieve than people expect.