Subj : Google Bard finally gets a free AI image generator heres how to To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Thu Feb 01 2024 21:30:05 Google Bard finally gets a free AI image generator heres how to try it Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2024 21:20:17 +0000 Description: Google announced that Bard will be getting an AI image generator, and it's pretty simple to use. FULL STORY ====================================================================== Considering how popular image generating is right now, Google Bard s recent update that adds AI image generation seems all but inevitable. According to the official Google Bard update page , using the tool is quite simple. You can activate the AI image generator by simply entering a few words into the search bar, starting with English prompts." Then you "click Generate more for more options and download the ones you like. Those generated images are stored in pinned chats, recent chats, and Bard Activity, and can be deleted from your Bard Activity by deleting the prompt that generated them. Bards image generation is powered by its updated Imagen 2 model, which is meant to balance speed with quality to deliver photorealistic images. The new feature is available worldwide including in the US, except in the following regions/countries: European Economic Area (EEA), Switzerland, and the UK. Its also only available in English and only to those 18 and above, though how Google would enforce the age restriction beyond a generic Yes or No question is unclear. In terms of responsibility, Google states in its official blog that Bard uses SynthID to embed digitally identifiable watermarks into the pixels of generated images, which makes its AI-generated images distinct from works created by humans. Most likely this feature was developed to prevent people from using generated images for commercial use, which tracks since that would open up a legal can of worms. Google also asserts that it seeks to limit violent, offensive, or sexual content from the training data, as well as applying filters to prevent named people from being involved in image generation. Bard with Gemini Pro will also be enhanced with this new update. The update page states that Bard will be far more capable at things like understanding, summarising, reasoning, brainstorming, writing, and planning. This upgrade to Bards AI is most likely what allowed Google to offer the free AI image generator tool in the first place, along with the support. We created the first two images with a simple prompt and clicked "Generate more" to see the second two. (Image credit: Future) Google Bard is taking over Google has been going all in with its Bard AI, even using it to slowly replace Google Assistant , which was the tech giants previous answer to Apples Siri. It was discovered that Google changed the greeting pop-up for various devices from Im Assistant with Bard to simply Im Bard. It was also announced that Google would be removing 17 features from Assistant in the coming weeks, including playing audiobooks on Google Play Books through voice command and asking for information about your contacts. The official announcement even implied that more features would be removed. You might also like Hands on: Google Bard - our first impressions of the ChatGPT rival Google Bard just got a whole lot smarter: here are 7 big upgrades Google Bard AI's addition to Messages could change the way we text ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/google-bard-finall y-gets-a-free-ai-image-generator-heres-how-to-try-it --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .