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Re: Bing Image Creator

#81
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...

"Powered by an advanced version of the DALL∙E model from our partners at OpenAI"

Re: Bing Image Creator

#82
post #58

it's fun to try to find flaws in content blocking. interesting datapoints: it will block some sexually suggestive prompts regarding women (a woman swimming in milk) but not for men (a man swimming in milk) changing milk to "almond milk" got the prompt accepted but then blocked before showing image refused any prompt with the word "bikini" (even for "on a statue") or "full body visible" (even if clothed) I got suspend…

Did the suspension carry a duration?

Re: Bing Image Creator

#83
How much longer can an initiative like midjourney continue when people like Microsoft are directly entering the fray?

I'll still use Stable Diffusion locally though - there's nothing like avoiding the potential walled garden/subscription trap.

Re: Bing Image Creator

#84

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…

It's not senseless when countries apply laws that affect websites operated from other countries. If I'm releasing a prototype in the USA I'd rather worry about GDPR compliance down the road.

Laws regulating websites have tradeoffs and this is one of them.

Re: Bing Image Creator

#85

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.

The long term vision likely includes Bing as the new default destination for "I have an intent" on the internet, in lieu of Google. How that figures into a unified offering is TBD but the first step is getting more eyes on Bing regularly.

Re: Bing Image Creator

#86
post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

No, OP just chose a more changed word instead of the appropriate one.

Re: Bing Image Creator

#87

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.

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Re: Bing Image Creator

#88
I'm definitely not a hater of these technologies and I'd actually like to play around with them. I'm more concerned with how these language models seem to be tied to a certain companies' browser and what the implications of this might be.

If Chrome gets tied with Bard and Edge gets tied with Chatbot, Image Creator, etc. where's that leave Firefox and other "niche" browsers?

Re: Bing Image Creator

#89
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.

The main limitation on it now is not in the generation, but the interface. Verbal prompts are fine if you really don't know what you want, but they just give you a generic output. Going I2I or anything of that sort, you're making or borrowing human art and then asking the AI "could you make it pretty for me?"

It's a question of what information the image actually encodes. The part that "tells a thousand words" in an illustrative sense, you still have to make.

Re: Bing Image Creator

#90
post #88

I'm definitely not a hater of these technologies and I'd actually like to play around with them. I'm more concerned with how these language models seem to be tied to a certain companies' browser and what the implications of this might be. If Chrome gets tied with Bard and Edge gets tied with Chatbot, Image Creator, etc. where's that leave Firefox and other "niche" browsers?

Hopefully with a means of passing page content and browsing capability to your local openGPT / GPTnu / whatever the open models end up being called
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