dalle.party
AI
image generation
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How HN took it
40 positive, 46 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 20 critical, out of 108 comments about the project. Thread score +0.10.
Execution: 13 for, 11 againstIdea: 16 for, 3 againstDesign: 1 for, 2 againstPricing: 2 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 3 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun to watch prompts drift into surreal or absurd results
From 4 comments
It's pretty fun to mess with the prompt and see what you can make happen over the series of images. Inspired by a recent Twitter post[1], I set this one up to increase the…
epiccoleman on HNHere's a custom prompt that I enjoyed: "Think hard about every single detail of the image, conceptualize it including the style, colors, and lighting. Final step, condensing this…
andrelaszlo on HNWow that meme about everything becoming cosmic/space themed is real isn't it?
morkalork on HNThese are fantastic
nathanfig on HN
Shadows and reflections in the images look surprisingly correct
From 2 comments
The thing that is truly mindboggling to me is that THE SHADOWS IN THE IMAGES ARE CORRECT. How is that possible??? Does DALL-E actually have a shadow-tracing component?
Blammar on HNYes! It can also get reflections and refractions mostly correct.
jiggawatts on HN
Objections
Images are often noisy or wrong, with people frequently mangled
From 2 comments
I randomly checked a few links here and shadows were correct in 2 images out of a dozen... and any people tend to be horrifying in many
throwaway290 on HNMy results are disappoitingly noisy but I love the concept https://dalle.party/?party=bxrPClVg https://dalle.party/?party=mmBxT8G- https://dalle.party/?party=kxra0OKY (the last…
andrelaszlo on HN
Rate limits and content-filter errors make runs frustrating
From 3 comments
The "create text version of image" prompt matters a ton. I tried three, demo here: default ``` https://dalle.party/?party=JfiwmJra ``` hyper-long + max detail + compression -…
epivosism on HNThe default limit for an account that was not used much is one image per minute, can you please add support for timeouts?
AvImd on HNI purposely gave it some weird instructions to show the progress of the universe from the Big Bang to present day Earth. It showed the 8 stages from my prompt in each image and…
toxic72 on HN
Users are reluctant to paste API keys into a third-party site
From 2 comments
Question: how are you protecting those API keys? I'm reluctant to enter mine into what could easily be an API Key scraper.
rexreed on HNI would never paste my API key into an app or website.
fassssst on HN
Requests
Start the loop from an uploaded image rather than a prompt
From 3 comments
It’d be interesting to start with an image rather than a prompt, though I am afraid of what it’d do if I started with a selfie.
i-use-nixos-btw on HNI'd like to be able to begin it with an image rather than a prompt.
bbreier on HNThis is fun, thanks for sharing! It would be interesting to upload the initial image from a camera to see where the chain takes it.
blopker on HN
Run it with local models or provide source code
From 2 comments
Pretty interesting. I would love to see a version of this running locally with local models.
robblbobbl on HNA clever idea that I'd love to play around with, but not without a source link so I could feel better about trusting it and host it myself.
edfletcher_t137 on HN
Questions
Whether the image-to-text model really understands the pictures
From 1 comment
The #1 phenomenon I see here is that the image-to-text model doesn't have any idea what the pictures actually contain. It looks like it's just matching patterns that it has in…
nerdponx on HN
How many iterations before the loop converges to a fixed point
From 1 comment
Very cool, I'm rather curious how many iterations it would typically take for a feedback loop to converge on a stable fixed-point. I also wonder if the fixed points tend to be…
neuronexmachina on HN
Alternatives named
Translation Party
From 1 comment
Hey, I'm one of the creators of Translation Party, thanks for the shout out, I really like this. My co-creator had the idea to limit the number of words for the generated image…
unclehighbrow1 on HN
Telestrations and Scrawl party games
From 2 comments
This reminds me of the party game Telestrations where players go back and forth between drawing and writing what they see. It's hilarious to see the result because you anticipate…
rbates on HNI haven't tried this yet, but I assume its similar to a game you can buy commercially as Scrawl [1]. You pass paper in a circle and have to either turn your neighbor's writing…
oarfish on HN
Pictograph family game
From 1 comment
Interesting how similar this is to my family's favorite game: pictograph. 1. You start by describing a thing. 2. The next person draws a picture of it. 3. The next next person…
indymike on HN