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Wrote some notes on how DALL-E 3 works, which includes getting ChatGPT to write prompts for it on your behalf. The underlying prompt engineering tricks OpenAI are using are super interesting. simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/26/...

Now add a walrus: Prompt engineering in DALL-E 3
Now add a walrus: Prompt engineering in DALL-E 3

Last year I wrote about my initial experiments with DALL-E 2, OpenAI’s image generation model. I’ve been having an absurd amount of fun playing with its sequel, DALL-E 3 recently. …

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llm, ttok and strip-tags—CLI tools for working with ChatGPT and other LLMs I've been putting together a fun suite of CLI tools for working with the OpenAI APIs - here's what I've got so far: https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/18/cli-tools-for-llms/

Command: curl -s https://www.nytimes.com/ \
  | strip-tags .story-wrapper \
  | ttok -t 4000 \
  | llm --system 'summary bullet points' -s

Animated output from running that command:

1. Senator Dianne Feinstein suffered complications from encephalitis during her recent bout with shingles, which has raised concerns about her health among some of her allies. 2. Investors, economists, and executives are preparing contingency plans in case of a possible United States debt default, but the timeline for when the government will run out of cash is uncertain. 3. The Pentagon has freed up an additional $3 billion for Ukraine through an accounting mistake, relieving pressure on the Biden administration to ask Congress for more money for weapon supplies. 4. Explosions damaged a Russian-controlled freight train in Crimea, and the railway operator has suggested that it may have been an act of sabotage, but there is no confirmation yet from Ukrainian authorities. 5. Group of Seven leaders are expec
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I recently learned that this even has a name - the "glass cliff"

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Weeknotes: sqlite-utils 3.31, download-esm, Python in a sandbox https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/10/weeknotes/

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That's an important question. Projects like https://open-assistant.io have been attempting to use crowdsourced volunteer labor for that kind of tuning

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Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI” The most interesting thing I've read recently about LLMs - a purportedly leaked document from a researcher at Google talking about the huge strategic impact open source models are having https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/4/no-moat/

Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”
Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”

SemiAnalysis published something of a bombshell leaked document this morning: Google “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”. The source of the document is vague: The text below is …

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when we added "what's hot," there wasn't a lot of people or activity and our chief concern was that the app would feel like a ghost town. we figured, okay easy fix, toss in a temporary algorithm while we wrap the real system. so we threw in this thing which was anything with N likes (we chose 5)

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Hello it's me your good friend Amazon S3

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The URL always returns my DID, so it shouldn't work for other folks https://s3.amazonaws.com/xrpc/com.atproto.identity.resolveHandle

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I participated in a talk hosted by LangChain this morning, where I attempted to explain prompt injection and why it's so hard to solve in just 8 minutes. The video, slides and transcript of my presentation is now up on my blog https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/2/prompt-injection-explained/

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