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[jtgoral]

Artists are necessary for us to have a future.

So are engineers

 

[day_trippr]

Not strictly Chat-GPT, but has anyone used one of the AI image generators for beer labels etc?

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/using-ai-to-design-beer-labels.727247/
Cheers!

 

[Northern_Brewer]

I'm no artist but I've been very underwhelmed by the image generators....it seems to me they have a long ways to go.

Well - you have to make allowance for how quickly this stuff is improving. Last year DALL-E seemed amazing despite the weird faces and six-fingered hands, but some of the stuff coming out of Midjourney just a year later is really quite impressive :

https://www.midjourney.com/showcase/recent/
[yes a lot of it reflects the preoccupations of its users, but there's usually one or two creative gems on that page in amongst the dragons and comic-book fantasies. And sure, even Midjourney is not perfect, there's often AI "tells" somewhere in the image, but they're a lot more subtle than the 6 fingers and distorted faces of a year ago.]

Artists will still be necessary in the future.

No doubt there were similar debates when photography was in its infancy in the 19th century, yet we still have artists. But the vast majority of images now are photographs, taken by people who are not skilled artists, often for mundane and not particularly "artistic" reasons. For instance I take photos at full stretch to read my gas meter as otherwise I have to move a bunch of stuff to get to it. If photography didn't exist - if digital photography in a device I carry with me all the time, didn't exist - I wouldn't be employing an artist to paint my gas meter reading so a new use like this is not a threat to an artist's living.

New technology can create uses for itself, and in this case it has the potential to make homebrew labels "better". Sure, for some people the creative process of designing a label is almost more enjoyable than brewing the beer; for some it's tedious, and for others it's somewhere in between. We're all different. Same with photography - some artists lost their jobs as a direct result, other artists use photography as just another tool in their art, some people who would have become artists became photographers instead.

It's never - dare one say it - black and white.

 

[loljoewtf]

I spent some time giving ChatGPT parameters and created something called Brew Buddy. I apologize that to use it, you've gotta have a ChatGPT Plus subscription - that's kinda crap.

Anyways, the purpose of this bot isn't for recipe creation; it's to help someone get some quick answers and ideas. When prompted for a recipe, it will create one and suggest reading Brewing Classic Styles to learn the fundamentals.

When I started brewing, I read countless posts on this forum and couldn't decipher good advice from bad. You'll find tons of conflicting information and theories like anything you're diving into. It stressed me out. After reading How To Brew, I figured it would be only a few steps more complicated than "simply add water and wait." I was wrong. So wrong. I always thought I was going to ruin the beer. "Don't worry, relax, have a homebrew" was excellent advice. I've encountered all kinds of problems over the years since I started in 2011 (and still find new ones from time to time!), and having one more resource available that gives instant feedback is a net gain - assuming it isn't giving advice that will ruin a batch. I assume OpenAI has harvested much of the data from these forums and is baked into the product. It certainly knows more than I did when I started on this journey.

I've used the bot to roleplay some scenarios that an inexperienced brewer runs into. "Why isn't my fermenter bubbling?" or "My LBHS is out of Citra again; what can I swap it with?". The immediate feedback is constructive; it's not as good as the information on these forums, but getting near that peak is much faster.

 

[BrewnWKopperKat]

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