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Re: Bing Image Creator

#61
It seems strange to me to put this into a search engine. What is the relationship between these two web apps? I suspect Microsoft is trying to do anything imaginable to drive people to bing search for ad revenue, but this one seems a bit shoehorned.

Re: Bing Image Creator

#62

So, currently OpenAI's Dalle-2 gives me: "The server is overloaded right now, please try again later." I guess all their compute power is going to power this. And even now the Bing generation is taking a long time. Definitely seems like their having scaling issues at the moment.

Had same problem just now. Seems like there was a pretty big outage [1] yesterday. One of the updates states: > "There is currently a Labs outage due to a failed database migration." Most likely the database migration intended to extend its capacity. The resolution tag states the following: > "We are continuing to investigate more ways to add capacity to DALL·E" So I guess we'll experience issues for the next days. H…

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Re: Bing Image Creator

#63

It seems strange to me to put this into a search engine. What is the relationship between these two web apps? I suspect Microsoft is trying to do anything imaginable to drive people to bing search for ad revenue, but this one seems a bit shoehorned.

To me, you need something so you search for it. I need an image, I will search to get it.

Re: Bing Image Creator

#64
post #4

Amazing, same as the chatGPT effect - seeing these images in papers is one thing. But having an interface where you can try it and realise that the paper examples weren't cherry-picked and the technology really is that good is something else. First try https://www.bing.com/images/create/a-dog-driving-a-taxi/6419...

But you can already do it for a long time.

Re: Bing Image Creator

#65
post #15

I asked GPT a while back to pick a theme to explore in 5 art pieces, it picked mental health and one it decided it liked was "the weight of anxiety". SD didn't really capture it very well IMO, this does. Here's the results https://www.bing.com/images/create/title3a-the-weight-of-anx... https://www.bing.com/images/create/title3a-the-weight-of-anx... https://www.bing.com/images/create/title3a-the-weight-of-anx... https…

Very cool. What prompt did you use for GPT to get the image generation prompt?

Re: Bing Image Creator

#66

It seems strange to me to put this into a search engine. What is the relationship between these two web apps? I suspect Microsoft is trying to do anything imaginable to drive people to bing search for ad revenue, but this one seems a bit shoehorned.

To me, you need something so you search for it. I need an image, I will search to get it.

Is creating an image a substitute for searching for an existing image?

Re: Bing Image Creator

#67

It seems strange to me to put this into a search engine. What is the relationship between these two web apps? I suspect Microsoft is trying to do anything imaginable to drive people to bing search for ad revenue, but this one seems a bit shoehorned.

To me, you need something so you search for it. I need an image, I will search to get it.

This is respectable, and how I use it. But I do think parent has a point too. There is a goldrush for the best large language model, and the companies with the resources don’t have a more appropriate product to create with it.

I share the concerns and optimisms. The concerns. Last week my dad was asking “why are all these businesses closed today?”

I typed “holidays today” into bing search bar (not the chat), and it gave me “Holidays in May.” I’m glad he wasn’t confused between similar-sounding medications, I wasn’t expecting bing to be creative on a question like that.

The optimism. Freakin, my search engine can create content that never existed before. That’s pretty cool. Our phones aren’t really “phones” anymore, as we have learned. This live prototyping rollout of search-based ML has a similar nature.

Re: Bing Image Creator

#69

I asked Bing Chat why it says it can't create images for me. >The Bing Image Creator feature is a new feature that allows you to create images with your words. It is currently available in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. So just one hour after Google Bard we have yet another senselessly geoblocked feature. edit: Okay, the separate link ( https://www.bing.com/images/create ) works, so I'm…

> So just one hour after Google Bard we have yet another senselessly geoblocked feature.

Just checked and no geoblock for bing image creator in india as of now.

Re: Bing Image Creator

#70
This could indeed be a wrapper for something like Dall-E 2. Like the latter, they seem to occasionally force some images to be (what US Americans consider) "diverse", i.e. making figures black even when it makes no sense.

The results can be quite disturbing:

https://www.bing.com/images/create/princess-peach2c-portrait...

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