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we built https://haveibeentrained.com that does the same CLIP retrieval process, and arranged for artists to be able to opt out of future trainings with Stability and LAION.

If this is just CLIP retrieval, that raises some ethical problems with the pretense of this site. It could make artists look silly for depending on an overstated claim of provenance, or worse still have artists pursue AI artists because an image looked kind of like their own artwork, with nothing more behind it.

I agree. It was telling that in what I perceived to the non story of the midjourney created image winning the county art fair, many of the other prizes were for activities that machines have been better at than humans for decades. Fruit canning. Furniture construction. The replacement narrative is overblown, but these tools are going to augment human artists considerably.

that is crazy. Perhaps your family name is common in that region?

part of our idea is that artists can help with labelling their own work

I'm one of the people building this. Hi HN, AMA :)

totally agree, part of why we wrote this was attempting to frame DALL-E as an early step towards something much bigger, rather than overly focussing on its current application!

author of the piece here! I think these tools are best understood as a step in an artist workflow that people will use to varying degree. Many painters use photography or sampled images to audition compositions, for example. Musicians use samples to spark an idea or set a palette for them to create within. The satisfaction of creating on a blank canvas won't change, but most artists use tools to help them realize what they want to create, and these are incredibly powerful to that end.

I think that typing to create imagery is cool, but also agree that the ability to instantly create convincing images (with those images being considered the final work) is not the most exciting/rewarding part, at least when those images are isolated as singular works to consider(like in painting) and not part of a greater narrative. This perspective was part of our motivation to frame the subject differently!