š¤·š»āāļø Closed AI
DALL-E 2 is coming out on subscription ā brace yourselves
Hello children of the internet. This episode is short and sweet because I have important paid work to do ā I will not be apologising for the errors in spelling and grammar.
This week was sort of okay I guess? š¤·. Iām going to briefly talk about my lack of respect for OpenAIā¦
š¤ If you werenāt on the waiting list for DALL-E 2⦠youāre an idiot.
Itās time! The first million people on DALL-E 2ās waiting list can now pay to use it on subscription. You can use this to create mood boards or concept art or anything you canāt be bothered to draw yourself. You can also just use it for fun, but itās $15 for 115 goes which sounds like a good deal, but if you think about how many prompts that wonāt do what you want them to do, it might not be so great.
Thereās also the other thing: the racial and gender bias present in the model (yes that thing weāre all tired of hearing about, because AI companies continue to release products without really fixing this problem). My solution would be to simply stop churning out so much AI tat; Open AIās solution is just to mitigate the bias after the fact. That means placing heavy controls on what kind of prompts you can put in, and censoring images afterwards. So, in essence, they are just putting a plaster on it, and no āfixesā are applied to the model itself.
Controlling prompts is an interesting one. You canāt search ānaked Jennifer Lawrenceā which makes lots of sense, but you also canāt search ādog that has been run overā or anything gory like that. However you can search ādog taking a nap in a puddle of red paint in the middle of the roadā. There are work-arounds, basically.
Thereās also the OTHER other thing: uh⦠remember how OpenAI used to be a non-profit? Remember that? They said that they wanted to ābuild value for everyone rather than shareholdersā and also to make sure AI didnāt shit all over humanity. Well, that unrealistic motivation lasted about four years, at which point they realised just how much money AI products could make them. They switched to being for-profit in 2019, and then received a $1bn cash injection from Microsoft, so that they could have exclusivity to some of their products.
This really is a classic tale in tech. A plucky little AI non-profit comes to terms with the fact that their activities are extremely expensive, and so accepts money from a tech giant, and now is at their mercy. The system WORKS (for shareholders).
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