AI Image Generation
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Hale: AI image generation replaces costly, hard-to-delegate graphic design
“All because of this new image generation that you get to like tell this story in such fine degree that, you know, was very expensive beforehand. Never could really, you know, communicate that to another designer. Now I'm just, you know, cranking out images unt…”
Patel: Anti-AI Art Critics Hold a Zero-Sum View of Beauty
“I think it's just a very zero sum view of the world where there can be a limited amount of beauty. There can be a limited amount of joy. I just don't think that.”
Gil: Seamless vertical AI image generation tools will arrive within a year
“We're going to see another thing like this in another year, I think. And then I think there'll be the very commercial versions of this, which are already sort of happening, but look, we can use it for graphic design completely seamlessly versus it kind of work…”
Pozel: Start a new chat when iterating AI image prompts
“If you struggle with the initial prompt, it's important not to carry on in the same conversation and try and adjust your image in the same conversation because you generally get the recycle of worse and worse rather than it actually improving because it's usin…”
AI image generation API calls cost between 0.2 and 3 cents
“When you generate something, when you generate an image, it costs like three or like two to .2 to three cents a piece.”
Welsh: Non-expert AI image generation produces commoditized and identical visuals
“It's, it feels like commoditized to me at this point. It's supposed to be new and unique and interesting, but like every visual that I see, and by the way, I'm not an AI artist and most people who use it are not AI artists with the prompts. So they're just get…”
Hudson: Generative imagery will be deflationary as clients capture the savings
“My current thesis is it's going to be very deflationary, and the customers are going to want to recoup and claw back a big chunk of that savings.”
Doshi: Prompting AI image models by artist name will disappear this year
“I think that this thing is going to go away in the next year, this year.”
Polosukhin: Law enforcement lacks tools to identify AI-generated media
“The people are using these tools now in very malicious ways right now. And law enforcement don't have a, like really good ways to deal with this. And so I think everything from this, like on camera, like signing, we need this now, like they really have no way …”
Evans: Image generation went from blurry faces to Wes Anderson Alien scenes
“And in the last couple of years, this has gone from being able to do a very small crap blurry thumbnail of a face, To being able to type in give me the chest bursting scene from Alien as though it was shot by Wes Anderson.”