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I didn't cross-post because the comments are also interesting.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/102011

We discover that DALLE-2 seems to have a hidden vocabulary that can be used to generate images with absurd prompts. For example, it seems that Apoploe vesrreaitais means birds and Contarra ccetnxniams luryca tanniounons (sometimes) means bugs or pests.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/107386

From the article:

symbex inspect_hash | llm --system 'explain succinctly'

Output:

This function calculates the hash of a database file efficiently by reading the file in blocks and updating the hash object using SHA256 algorithm from the hashlib module. The resulting hash value is returned as a hexadecimal string.

Quote from the article:

And the terrible, horrible thing about it is THIS IS A GOOD LETTER. It is better than most letters of recommendation that I receive. This means that not only is the quality of the letter no longer a signal of the professor’s interest, but also that you may actually be hurting people by not writing a letter of recommendation by AI, especially if you are not a particularly strong writer. So people now have to consider that the goal of the letter (getting a student a job) is in contrast with the morally-correct method of accomplishing the goal (the professor spending a lot of time writing the letter). I am still doing all my letters the old-fashioned way, but I wonder whether that will ultimately do my student’s a disservice.

From the article:

symbex inspect_hash | llm --system 'explain succinctly'

Output:

This function calculates the hash of a database file efficiently by reading the file in blocks and updating the hash object using SHA256 algorithm from the hashlib module. The resulting hash value is returned as a hexadecimal string.

I wanted to see if Midjourney also has a "hidden language" like DALL-E 2 in this post: https://programming.dev/post/102011

So I ran a little experiment.

I gave this prompt from the article to Midjourney:

Two farmers talking about vegetables, with subtitles --q 2

But it didn't produce any text:

Then I tried this:

text logo of fitness company including motto --q 2

This gave me what I wanted: logos with text.

Then entered the nonsensical words from one of the logos:

FRVNE MIASE --q 2

This triggered an abuse detection filter which I appealed. Then Midjourney produced these equally nonsensical but absolutely wonderful images:

First I thought that the results had nothing to do with the original prompt, but if you look at the logo, it has mountains in it, so maybe "FRVNE MIASE" means mountain?

I don't have more time to play around with this but if someone else can get further with it, I would love to see the results!

We discover that DALLE-2 seems to have a hidden vocabulary that can be used to generate images with absurd prompts. For example, it seems that Apoploe vesrreaitais means birds and Contarra ccetnxniams luryca tanniounons (sometimes) means bugs or pests.

Whenever you store a value that has a unit in a variable, config option or CLI switch, include the unit in the name. So:

• maxRequestSize => maxRequestSizeBytes
• elapsedTime => elapsedSeconds
• cacheSize => cacheSizeMB
• chargingTime => chargingTimeHours
• fileSizeLimit => fileSizeLimitGB
• temperatureThreshold => temperatureThresholdCelsius
• diskSpace => diskSpaceTerabytes
• flightAltitude => flightAltitudeFeet
• monitorRefreshRate => monitorRefreshRateHz
• serverResponseTimeout => serverResponseTimeoutMs
• connectionSpeed => connectionSpeedMbps

EDIT: I know it’s better to use types to represent units. Please don’t write yet another comment about it. You can find my response to that point here: https://programming.dev/comment/219329