In this sense, I think we aren’t seeing “DALL-E 2 as trained” but rather “DALL-E 2 with some sort of interesting alignment-related lobotomy to make it less able to accidentally stir up trouble”.
Yes, I thought their ‘horse in ketchup’ example made the point well that it’s an ‘artificial stupidity’ Harrison-Bergeron sort of approach rather than a genuine solution. (And then, like BPEs, there seems to be unpredictable fallout which would be hard to benchmark and which no one apparently even thought to benchmark—despite whatever they did on May 1st to upgrade quality, the anime examples still struggle to portray specific characters like Kyuubey, where Swimmer’s examples are all very Kyuubey-esque but never actually Kyuubey. I am told the CLIP used is less degraded, and so we’re probably seeing the output of ‘CLIP models which know about characters like Kyuubey combined with other models which have no idea’.)
Yes, I thought their ‘horse in ketchup’ example made the point well that it’s an ‘artificial stupidity’ Harrison-Bergeron sort of approach rather than a genuine solution. (And then, like BPEs, there seems to be unpredictable fallout which would be hard to benchmark and which no one apparently even thought to benchmark—despite whatever they did on May 1st to upgrade quality, the anime examples still struggle to portray specific characters like Kyuubey, where Swimmer’s examples are all very Kyuubey-esque but never actually Kyuubey. I am told the CLIP used is less degraded, and so we’re probably seeing the output of ‘CLIP models which know about characters like Kyuubey combined with other models which have no idea’.)