What was your "Oh Shit" moment with GenAI?

Re:What was your "Oh Shit" moment with GenAI? by mbo on Friday June 05, 2026 @04:20PM (#48417658)

Look, not to brag but DALL-E's "armchair in the shape of an avocado" was mine (https://openai.com/index/dall-e/). I remember trying to convey the gravity of this capability to my friends at the time, who I guess were not as impressed as me.

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Re:What was your "Oh Shit" moment with GenAI? by wps on Friday June 05, 2026 @04:34PM (#48417838)

Thats insane! I cited your image in a humanities paper during one of my freshman year classes.

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Re:What was your "Oh Shit" moment with GenAI? by bonoboTP on Friday June 05, 2026 @05:02PM (#48418235)

I think the GP just means it was their oh shit moment, not that it was their image...

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Re:What was your "Oh Shit" moment with GenAI? by kstrauser on Friday June 05, 2026 @05:15PM (#48418427)

I think GP meant that yes, they were the one who had that image generated, and the oh shit moment was that it worked.

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Re:What was your "Oh Shit" moment with GenAI? by mbo on Friday June 05, 2026 @05:05PM (#48418274)

Yes confirmed, I did not author the DALL-E paper lmao

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