{"id":143363,"date":"2022-08-01T10:24:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T15:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/openais-dall-e-2-a-dream-tool-and-existential-threat-to-visual-artists"},"modified":"2022-08-01T10:24:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T15:24:07","slug":"openais-dall-e-2-a-dream-tool-and-existential-threat-to-visual-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/openais-dall-e-2-a-dream-tool-and-existential-threat-to-visual-artists","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI\u2019s DALL-E 2: A dream tool and existential threat to visual artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qTgPSKKjfVg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The greatest artistic tool ever built, or a harbinger of doom for entire creative industries? OpenAI\u2019s second-generation DALL-E 2 system is slowly opening up to the public, and its text-based image generation and editing abilities are awe-inspiring.<\/p>\n<p>The pace of progress in the field of AI-powered text-to-image generation is positively frightening. The generative adversarial network, or GAN, first emerged in 2014, putting forth the idea of two AIs in competition with one another, both \u201ctrained\u201d by being shown a huge number of real images, labeled to help the algorithms learn what they\u2019re looking at. A \u201cgenerator\u201d AI then starts to create images, and a \u201cdiscriminator\u201d AI tries to guess if they\u2019re real images or AI creations.<\/p>\n<p>At first, they\u2019re evenly matched, both being absolutely terrible at their jobs. But they learn; the generator is rewarded if it fools the discriminator, and the discriminator is rewarded if it correctly picks the origin of an image. Over millions and billions of iterations \u2013 each taking a matter of seconds \u2013 they improve to the point where humans start struggling to tell the difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The greatest artistic tool ever built, or a harbinger of doom for entire creative industries? OpenAI\u2019s second-generation DALL-E 2 system is slowly opening up to the public, and its text-based image generation and editing abilities are awe-inspiring. The pace of progress in the field of AI-powered text-to-image generation is positively frightening. The generative adversarial network, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}