[HN Gopher] The TextFX Project
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The TextFX Project
Author : kinduff
Score : 70 points
Date : 2023-08-17 13:43 UTC (9 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (textfx.withgoogle.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (textfx.withgoogle.com)
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| Code: https://github.com/google/generative-ai-
| docs/tree/main/demos...
| progbits wrote:
| Fun to play with.
|
| Bug report: input field in the demo doesn't behave like normal, I
| can type but autocorrect and autocomplete doesn't work. Probably
| just listening to key presses, no idea why you would do that
| though.
| chakintosh wrote:
| My CPU immediately jumped to 50% usage and 65C with a 360mm AIO.
| The culprit I think is that vertical scrolling text because usage
| drops when I scroll down.
| azinman2 wrote:
| The branding is very not Google but actually very cool. I hope
| they move towards a more fun, colorful, edgy style.
| [deleted]
| sproketboy wrote:
| [dead]
| thebooktocome wrote:
| This feels more like a tool that arrests creativity before it can
| even put its shoes on.
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| Weird how no one noticed this like 10 days ago... did Google not
| promote it?
|
| (Well almost no one
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37044844)
| zackangelo wrote:
| Don't miss the YouTube video with Lupe Fiasco [0]. The cynic in
| me says that this might be all marketing; I would be curious to
| know if he's actually using LLMs regularly to write songs.
|
| So many people think AI will entirely replace artists, writers,
| creatives, etc. but I increasingly believe that (for the
| foreseeable future) we're just giving these folks a new set of
| superior tools. Taste still matters. Being able to ask the right
| questions still matters.
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| [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYp18JAvKkQ
| stronglikedan wrote:
| The graphic artist at my company agrees. He says it's a great
| tool that he uses often, but it will never replace the
| creativity of the human mind (at least, for the foreseeable
| future).
| mekkkkkk wrote:
| I think about these tools upping the lower threshold of what
| is an acceptable entry level for creatives. Being decent
| isn't going to be good enough to be hired, because if you
| settle for decent, an AI powered tool can do it for you. Any
| "bulk content" job (aspiring journalists writing bullshit
| pieces, photographers honing their skills while shooting
| b-roll, etc) is going to die.
|
| Maybe it's fine that only the few naturally talented and
| self-taught creatives can find work. Getting better through
| labor might not be an option in the future.
| croes wrote:
| What else could he say?
|
| His customers/employees will decide.
| kfarr wrote:
| I gotta be honest on first viewing the site I was expecting it to
| be generative AI for animated text treatments (a la After
| Effects) instead of LLM text modification.
| kinduff wrote:
| Me too, had to watch the video to fully understand how to use
| the tool. At first I tried to find the copy button to copy the
| effect (assuming it was like CSS, or something like that), but
| nonetheless a pleasant surprise when I discovered the real
| usage (I like to write songs and poems, so this is gold for
| me).
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