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Re: Bing Image Creator

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It blocked "a woman wearing a flower dress massaging a pregnant woman in a room with a view of the ocean and the sunset" that I was trying to generate for a client who offers pre-natal massage, I removed "pregnant" and it worked.

It seemingly blocks literally any sort of generation that shows skin. Several prompts around people on beaches only shows people who are 100% clothed. Images around swimming shows the person's body nearly entirely obscured by water and swimsuit. Massage implies showing skin too, so I imagine it would either use angles that don't show it or otherwise just block it as you saw. I assume the pregnant part caused blocking…

Guess it pays to err on the side of caution for now!

Re: Bing Image Creator

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Also maybe they have some loyalty to their US American countrymen. Reminds me of how a majority in polls in the US said that the Pfizer vaccine should be distributed to US Americans first, while people in almost all other countries were more in favor for international ratios. (Although this case isn't equally justified here, since the vaccine was produced by a US company, Pfizer, but developed by a German company, Bi…

Realistically most of this tech was actually developed in academic labs and at Moderna, then knowledge leached out to biotech competitors. > while people in almost all other countries were more in favor for international ratios I have seen the first polling you've mentioned (66% of Americans favor prioritizing US). I would love the source if you have it on similar polling for people outside the US on whether to prior…

I don't think the technology was leaked from Moderna, as BioNTech was a major player in this mRNA technology before.

I don't have the poll, but as far as I remember only in the US was the majority for prioritizing the own country. Though the amount of money spent on "project warp speed", a US effort not matched anywhere else, could play a role here.

Re: Bing Image Creator

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Could you tell what the difference in language understanding is between Midourney and this AI (apparently Dall-E 3)? Visual quality is one thing, following the prompt is another. Example: A monk playing chess with a clown Two yellow books on top of three blue books Edit: I have the Bing mobile app (Android), but the image creator is not present in the "app" list on the lower right.

My MJ sub has now lapsed unfortunately otherwise I'd do the comparison for you. Have you applied here for access to the Bing image creator? https://www.bing.com/create It only took a couple of days at most and I was approved.

I didn't even need to apply. It seems pretty good, though perhaps still not quite on the level of Imagen or Parti (both Google Research). For example, text still doesn't work.

Re: Bing Image Creator

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I experimented with Bing to create a cover for my novel. I prompted it to create:

"a child voodoo priest"

And got a lot of interesting results:

https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIG.0R0NBSEhAJk__g2djOhW

https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIG.XoAiY81ifmW_SjeHLQMm

But then I said that the voodoo priest should be "female" and got told that it went against the content policy. I tried "woman", "girl", "lady". But all went against the content policy.

And when I tried to say that the voodoo priest should be "scary" instead, I got my account suspended.

Re: Bing Image Creator

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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).

I don’t think I’ve ever searched for an image that wasn’t specific to whatever I was trying to find. Playing with stable diffusion on the other hand… who would search for “Stalin petting a llama” and what practical application would it have?

Imagine a blogger writing about some topic, and they have some ideas of concepts they want to find images that represent. It's possible to sift through tons of stock photography and maybe find one; but that takes a lot of time, and it sometimes ends with an expensive license cost.

Instead, with good prompting, you can not request a "photo" which matches your exact desires... close enough to perfectly that your audience won't notice or won't care about the last 1% that is imperfect.

And like the early days of online music, not only will people relax and accept imperfections (bad aliasing, mediocre sound quality), they may even become so accustomed to it that they will someday intentionally inject similar imperfections into creations so those feel more "natural" (comfortable based on the audiences' experiences).

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