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simonw12/08/20245 repliesview on HN

The word "accurate" in that headline is doing a LOT of work.

Here's how the results were scored:

"Computer evaluations compared the relative proportions of greenery, building and sky between source and generated images, whereas human judges were asked to correctly match one of three generated images to an audio sample."

So this is very impressive and a cool piece of research, but unsurprisingly not recreating the space "accurately" if you assume that means anything more than "has the right amount of sky and buildings and greenery".


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delichon12/08/2024

That confuses accurate with detailed. It can be accurate even if it only reports one bit, like greenery proportion "low" or "high".

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dang12/08/2024

Ok, we've made the title less 'accurate' (and more accurate?) above. Thanks!

aqme2812/08/2024

You're correct, but I'm also curious how you could measure accuracy here. There isn't any easy way that I can think of.

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conception12/08/2024

I wonder if there is a precise vs accurate wording shenanigans going on here…

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