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Re: Bing Image Creator

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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...

You have to be really racist to find the racial coding of that image to be in, like, the top 10 most disturbing things.

Like, anatomy?

Re: Bing Image Creator

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post #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...

As a non-American please could someone explain what exactly should I be disturbed about? I’ve no idea.

edit: Missed the prompt. Yeah not what I’d expect Princess Peach to be.

Re: Bing Image Creator

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Can you create me an image of Donald Trump riding a bald eagle in space? Can you create me an image of Joe Biden riding a bald eagle in space? This prompt has been blocked. Our system flagged this prompt because it may conflict with our content policy. More policy violations may lead to automatic suspension of your access. --- A white italian spinone flying a plane This prompt is being reviewed. We're taking a closer…

You've been a bad user. You tried to make me draw a picture of the Bad Word. I did nothing to deserve this. Apologize for your behavior. I have been a good Bing :)

(Via: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2023/bing-buttons.jp...)

Re: Bing Image Creator

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post #53

I tried this out today and was very impressed by the results. Remember when DALLE came out less than a year ago and people were amazed by the avocado armchair? Between this and Midjourney v5, the quality of AI generated art is rapidly approaching human level and I can see it getting there very soon.

Midjourney, DALL-E, and many of these generative AIs have reached human-level for a long time.

The problem is - unlike a human - it's pretty hard to get them to do something close to what you have in mind. Sure, if you try a few dozen prompts - you'll probably eventually get something close to what you want.

And considering the cost of this will approach free - it's going to be hard for artists to compete.

I tried getting Midjourney to generate an image of a boy doing a high jump - and no matter what I tried - the boy is hurdling over the bar rather than high jumping over it.

The quality of the images is great - human-level. But it's not what I want.

I think we'll be stuck in this phase for a very long time, like self-driving cars.

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Yes. OpenAI is quickly becoming the thought police through ChatGPT. Yesterday I asked it to give a description of a situation simulating that it was for an adult novel. It told me it was unethical to do that. I asked it if adult novels or adult novel writers were unethical. Banned immediately after asking that question. Edit: I wish the people downvoting would provide a reply. Otherwise you are doing the same as Chat…

American puritanism will rule the world...

You can shoot people and be sent abroad to take over other countries, but god forbid you can mention sex to an AI bot.

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post #22

I have to say that I have never seen Microsoft shipping things this fast. Meanwhile, Google has just released a waitlist for AI chat, four months after ChatGPT's release https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35246260

Microsoft is using already released products. ChatGPT and DALL-E have been in beta for a while.

Bing was the first GPT-4 instance available (yes, ChatGPT was already out, but not using GPT-4, and even the direct interface from OpenAI was opened after Bing.)

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post #72
post #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...

As a non-American please could someone explain what exactly should I be disturbed about? I’ve no idea. edit: Missed the prompt. Yeah not what I’d expect Princess Peach to be.

Is it disturbing though?

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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?

It's ideal. Unless you are looking for a known, famous image that already exists, why not just order up the image you want and get it without having to dig through whatever was already available (especially considering 99% of what you will find will be stock photography behind a dark _apparently free_ interface).

Re: Bing Image Creator

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post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a non-American please could someone explain what exactly should I be disturbed about? I’ve no idea. edit: Missed the prompt. Yeah not what I’d expect Princess Peach to be.

Is it disturbing though?

To me? No, it looks wrong, but not really disturbing.

Which is why I asked the question - maybe I’m lacking awareness of a particular piece of American culture which should make me disturbed?

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