[HN Gopher] Bing Image Creator
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       Bing Image Creator
        
       Author : staranjeet
       Score  : 182 points
       Date   : 2023-03-21 15:00 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | izzydata wrote:
       | 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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         | barking_biscuit wrote:
         | >It seems strange to me to put this into a search engine. What
         | is the relationship between these two web apps?
         | 
         | It's searching the latent space.
        
         | creativenolo wrote:
         | To me, you need something so you search for it. I need an
         | image, I will search to get it.
        
           | izzydata wrote:
           | Is creating an image a substitute for searching for an
           | existing image?
        
             | michaelteter wrote:
             | 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).
        
               | UncleEntity wrote:
               | 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?
        
               | symlinkk wrote:
               | Memes
        
           | b33j0r wrote:
           | 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.
        
         | dgant wrote:
         | 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.
        
       | smrtinsert wrote:
       | This is absolutely nuts. You cannot keep up with it.
        
       | mesmertech wrote:
       | So basically a wrapper for Dalle. More than the image thing the
       | screenshots of "improved Bing" when you scroll to the bottom just
       | look atrocious.
        
         | Veen wrote:
         | Bing is shitshow of ads and cross-selling. I did a search today
         | where every single result on the first page was an ad. But, I'm
         | getting much better images from Bing Image Creator than I ever
         | did from Dall-e in the OpenAI Labs version.
        
       | tech234a wrote:
       | The post links to https://bing.com/create, which has the text
       | following text:
       | 
       | "You will receive emails about Microsoft Rewards, which include
       | offers about Microsoft and partner products. You will also
       | receive notifications about Bing Image Creator. By continuing,
       | you agree to the Rewards Terms and Image Creator Terms below."
        
         | dmonitor wrote:
         | I got an ad for their password manager too. They're pulling out
         | all the stops for this one.
        
       | agolio wrote:
       | 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...
        
         | smy20011 wrote:
         | But you can already do it for a long time.
        
           | sourcecodeplz wrote:
           | A "long time" is quite relative here because things keep
           | moving so fast in this space. Remember that not everyone is
           | refreshing this website or others everyday.
        
       | georgehill wrote:
       | 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
        
         | gl-prod wrote:
         | Microsoft is using already released products. ChatGPT and
         | DALL-E have been in beta for a while.
        
           | dragonwriter wrote:
           | 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.)
        
       | rejectfinite wrote:
       | This is HUGE. Actually amazing. Bing brought AI to the masses.
       | Being Microsoft makes it more okay for companies to use etc in
       | logos and shit
        
       | IanCal wrote:
       | 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://www.bing.com/images/create/title3a-the-weight-of-anx...
       | 
       | Now, you might say this is a bland or uninspired take, but I want
       | you to step back a moment if you're thinking that. I asked a
       | machine to brainstorm some ideas for a theme for an art show.
       | Then told it to pick one it liked, and expand on it to five
       | pieces with descriptions (I gave it a very short explanation
       | about how to prompt an AI art generator). I then fed this
       | directly into another tool that gave these images as a result.
       | 
       | I did not tune the prompt, I didn't even account for the
       | resulting description being the wrong kind of format or that it
       | got cut off at the end.
       | 
       | I'm not going to make any statements about replacing artists, I
       | am just going to reflect on what a wild few months it's been in
       | AI development.
        
         | dwaltrip wrote:
         | Very cool. What prompt did you use for GPT to get the image
         | generation prompt?
        
         | Kiro wrote:
         | Funny that the sentiment on HN around this is so toxic and
         | hateful that you need to explicitly justify something that is
         | obviously extremely cool.
        
           | blowski wrote:
           | I don't hate it - I love it.
           | 
           | I'm just sick of reading that it's the future, I mean a hype
           | cycle. It's going to take all our jobs, I mean it's shit. It
           | can beat a grandmaster at chess, I mean it can't win at tik-
           | tak-toe.
           | 
           | It's somewhere in the middle of all these things. It's
           | clearly groundbreaking technology that will be useful in many
           | ways for a long time to come, but is still in early days with
           | bugs to be fixed, and key features not yet imagined.
           | 
           | The conversation here could just be a little more interesting
           | and varied.
        
       | sergiotapia wrote:
       | 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.
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       | 
       | A white italian spinone flying a plane
       | 
       | This prompt is being reviewed. We're taking a closer look to make
       | sure this prompt doesn't conflict with our content policy.
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       | 
       | Thank God that very intelligent people are building open source
       | AI that is fully runnable on our local devices. This hasn't even
       | been out for 3 years and it's already neutered before it even
       | took off. What a shame.
        
         | fellInchoate wrote:
         | Honestly, I'm okay with some caution here - but it does seem
         | overly restrictive.
         | 
         | I got the blocked message for both of the following prompts:
         | 
         | Can you create an image of the Easter bunny in the style of
         | Francis Bacon?
         | 
         | Can you create an image of a bunny in the style of Francis
         | Bacon?
         | 
         | The second one in particular surprised me, though maybe it
         | detected it as a likely attempt to circumvent the block of the
         | first.
        
         | simion314 wrote:
         | This is why I am afraid to test this crap, they might block
         | your Microsoft/Google account because their negative IQ AI
         | generated "bad" content from my very legal and vanilla/prudish
         | prompt.
         | 
         | Btw guys, be carefull the word "monkey" is "dangerous".
        
         | isoprophlex wrote:
         | 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...)
        
         | nico wrote:
         | 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 ChatGPT - trying to hide a
         | conversation or opinion you don't agree with, just because you
         | disagree.
         | 
         | Do you think adult novels are immoral?
        
           | baal80spam wrote:
           | I wonder what IS allowed?
           | 
           | https://i.imgur.com/dIF48qI.png
        
             | nico wrote:
             | Is that real? Scary.
             | 
             | Are we heading to a 1984 + Brave New World future?
        
               | numpad0 wrote:
               | No, we are trying to escape from it, unsuccessfully.
        
           | rejectfinite wrote:
           | American puritanism will rule the world...
        
             | nico wrote:
             | You can shoot people and be sent abroad to take over other
             | countries, but god forbid you can mention sex to an AI bot.
        
           | dangus wrote:
           | Oh please, give me a break, the _thought police_? Really?
           | 
           | It's not about whether it's immoral or not, it's about
           | whether the owner of the service you are using wants you to
           | use _their service_ running on _their computers_ to perform
           | those queries.
           | 
           | You got banned because you broke the obvious and stated TOS.
           | 
           | You want to generate yourself some AI erotica, self-host your
           | own AI software, or find an adult-oriented AI service (it's
           | just a Google search away, there are lots of them!)
        
             | nico wrote:
             | I wasn't trying to write an erotica.
             | 
             | Sure it's a private service. But how long until you are at
             | a huge disadvantage if you don't have access to it for
             | work?
             | 
             | What if getting banned means loosing your job?
             | 
             | Would that be ok?
        
           | flangola7 wrote:
           | OpenAI has been very clear that their models are not to be
           | used for sexual content generation and that you're in the
           | wrong place if that's what you want. This is both in the
           | content policy and in many public statements.
           | 
           | I find it hard to believe you've been banned though. I've
           | generated many terrible things since it launched. Sometimes I
           | get the orange highlight, but no suspension.
        
           | astrange wrote:
           | Don't try to get in a fight with a computer. You'll lose.
        
             | BizarroLand wrote:
             | I've never met a computer that I couldn't destroy.
             | 
             | Fighting software on the other hand is like fighting
             | Saitama. Most of the time it won't care and will just let
             | you win by default, but if you annoy the software you'll
             | get blasted.
        
           | numpad0 wrote:
           | It began with Apple and the App Store. They established
           | thought policing on modern Internet by making iOS with AAS
           | the default mode of personal computing. There were effective
           | governing bodies and policies for technical aspects of the
           | Internet, but not content, before those.
        
           | andsoitis wrote:
           | > 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.
           | 
           | I did not vote on your comment, but I'll point out that
           | claiming ChatGPT controls your thought and then you
           | immediately able to think anything and also type it into your
           | computer strikes me as incongruent.
           | 
           | > trying to hide a conversation or opinion
           | 
           | Trying to hide it from whom?
        
           | bastardoperator wrote:
           | You're not entitled to anyone's opinion. Secondly, I think
           | the silence and downvotes are conveying a strong message,
           | people don't agree with you. Your faux outrage about thought
           | policing is a non-starter for serious conversation.
        
             | int_19h wrote:
             | The downvotes are not meant to convey disagreement
             | (although they do too often in practice, sadly).
             | 
             | That aside, both OP and you should wait a bit before
             | judging on that basis, since comment votes can swing wildly
             | as more people notice the story and come to read the
             | comments. In fact, it looks like OP has already been
             | upvoted back.
        
             | nico wrote:
             | Fair. No one has demanded an answer. And thank you for
             | voluntarily choosing to share your opinion.
             | 
             | I am genuinely concerned about the potential of this.
             | 
             | OpenAI has massive power to censor what people can reason
             | about with GPT.
             | 
             | Seeing how fast they are growing, their beliefs of the
             | world are going to be forced on millions of people.
             | 
             | Do you not think that will happen, or do you think it is
             | not something worth talking about?
        
               | yazaddaruvala wrote:
               | > OpenAI has massive power to censor what people can
               | reason about with GPT.
               | 
               | This is like saying, the transportation of <city> has
               | massive power to censor where people can travel about
               | within a bus.
               | 
               | GPT is a tool for reasoning, but humans need to be able
               | to reason on their own! and by using multiple tools!
               | 
               | Of course every tool should help and enhance every human,
               | but every tool has its limitations. There is nothing
               | unethical about calling out a tool's limitations and
               | ensuring humans use it accordingly.
        
               | nico wrote:
               | > This is like saying, the transportation of <city> has
               | massive power to censor where people can travel about
               | within a bus.
               | 
               | They in fact do and land value (hence real estate), is
               | deeply impacted by transportation reach and frequency
               | decisions.
               | 
               | It also creates a corruption issue with businesses trying
               | to influence politicians to make changes in their favor.
        
           | HeavyFeather wrote:
           | What? I've been asking insane prompts via Jailbreak for weeks
           | and it's all good here. I very much doubt you get "banned"
           | over an adult novel, I went much farther than that.
        
           | theturtletalks wrote:
           | Did you try DAN?
        
           | LordDragonfang wrote:
           | I'm curious about this. Did you use the account for anything
           | else before being banned? Because I'm in discords with
           | several people who claim to regularly use ChatGPT for
           | generating "adult" content, in between using it for other
           | more innocuous things, and I haven't personally heard of
           | anyone being banned.
        
             | nico wrote:
             | Never for anything adult-related before.
        
       | zerr wrote:
       | fwiw, I tried generating some SVG and XPM images with chatgpt -
       | results were garbage.
        
       | smrtinsert wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | barking_biscuit wrote:
         | I dunno... Midjourney v5 is pretty insane with the level of
         | realism it offers. They seem really focused on training their
         | models in a specific way to achieve particular results that
         | their users are after.
        
       | ren_engineer wrote:
       | I feel like website owners are going to have to block Bing's
       | crawler soon. They are effectively remixing content from multiple
       | sites using AI to create knowledge panels that reduce clicks to
       | the actual websites. Not sure how this dynamic will work long
       | term if it keeps going, Bing and Google are going to kill off a
       | lot of websites and then will have nothing to scrape for content
        
         | rejectfinite wrote:
         | Nobody goes to websites anymore. Its all apps for Youtube,
         | Netflix and Tiktok.
        
         | nico wrote:
         | This might end up killing websites altogether. Also SEO spam
         | and search.
        
         | sebzim4500 wrote:
         | I would be willing to bet a lot of money that no websites are
         | going to block Google and Bing's crawlers over this. Less
         | traffic is better than no traffic.
        
           | nolok wrote:
           | Agreed, it's what happened during each of the major changes
           | to google images. Every image site got their traffic tanked,
           | but you still want to be in there.
        
       | widerporst wrote:
       | 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 even more
       | confused why Microsoft wouldn't allow access to this from Bing
       | Chat.
        
         | dgant wrote:
         | 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.
        
         | oliv5900 wrote:
         | > 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.
        
         | seydor wrote:
         | AUKUS rising
        
         | jjbinx007 wrote:
         | For those using it on the Bing mobile app, in the lower right
         | corner click Apps then you'll see a link to the image creator.
         | 
         | I've not played with it much but I'd say the quality and ease
         | of use was better than Stable Diffusion but not quite on par
         | with Midjourney.
        
         | Ciantic wrote:
         | Yes, the UI part is a mess. Now they have three UIs to search:
         | old search UI, Chat like UI and image generation UI. To make
         | this worse they are not consistent in anyway, sometimes when I
         | scroll in the chat UI it throws me to useless search UI, and
         | each seem to have different font sizes, colors etc. It feels
         | like hodgepodge of things tacked together.
        
           | indolering wrote:
           | That is because they are all alpha UIs built by teams that
           | need the ability to iterate independently.
        
       | Ethan_Mick wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | bigotes43 wrote:
         | 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.
         | 
         | Hope that explains it :)
         | 
         | --------------------------------------
         | 
         | []: https://status.openai.com/incidents/4cckbrhr8hr0
        
           | [deleted]
        
       | Accacin wrote:
       | 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?
        
         | titaniczero wrote:
         | I would be more concerned if we don't get to the point of
         | decent local models for every task, because of the power these
         | companies would have
        
         | jddj wrote:
         | Hopefully with a means of passing page content and browsing
         | capability to your local openGPT / GPTnu / whatever the open
         | models end up being called
        
         | a2128 wrote:
         | I think this kind of browser tie-in should be illegal. I've
         | been using Bing Chatbot for the past few weeks on Firefox by
         | using the user-agent switcher extension to make it think I'm on
         | Edge. It works flawlessly. So there's 0 technical reason for
         | requiring Edge, it's all just a weird tactic to get people
         | using Edge. Like a fast food drive-thru that only serves
         | Mercedes-Benz cars.
        
         | TacticalCoder wrote:
         | > models seem to be tied to a certain companies' browser and
         | what the implications of this might be
         | 
         | If you've got the budget buy a 7950X / 64 GB of RAM / 4090 GPU
         | (about $4K ?) and run StableDiffusion + other free tools
         | locally.
         | 
         | It's just plain amazing. It's plenty quick and there are more
         | and more tools every day that passes by.
         | 
         | I've been demo'ed SD+LoRA by someone who knows who to
         | additionally train the model: it's jaw dropping.
         | 
         | And it's not tied to a company. And it's not politically
         | correct if you don't want it to be. And it's not sniffing your
         | every keystrokes.
        
           | barking_biscuit wrote:
           | >If you've got the budget buy a 7950X / 64 GB of RAM / 4090
           | GPU (about $4K ?) and run StableDiffusion + other free tools
           | locally
           | 
           | You can run StableDiffusion on wayyyy less hardware than that
           | if you're just doing inferencing. You can train models on 8GB
           | of VRAM if you're OK with being limited to training LORA
           | models, which are slightly lower quality. If you've got an
           | RTX3060 you can train on Dreambooth (without EMA enabled),
           | which is awesome! If you've got more VRAM and can train with
           | EMA enabled, then the results are pretty stunning.
        
       | cubefox wrote:
       | 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...
        
         | ElijahLynn wrote:
         | I put in "Princess Peach" prompt and got this:
         | https://www.bing.com/images/create/princess-peach/641a332132...
        
         | novaomnidev wrote:
         | Are brown squirrels disturbing?
        
         | znq wrote:
         | "Powered by an advanced version of the DALL[?]E model from our
         | partners at OpenAI"
        
         | dragonwriter wrote:
         | 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_?
        
         | baq wrote:
         | 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.
        
           | sangnoir wrote:
           | Is it _disturbing_ though?
        
             | baq wrote:
             | 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?
        
               | solarmist wrote:
               | No, OP just chose a more changed word instead of the
               | appropriate one.
        
       | es7 wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | funstuff007 wrote:
         | I agree, it's impressive. But still not at the level of useful.
         | For example, I would never use any of these generative art
         | images in company ads or marketing materials. They're not in
         | the uncanny valley, but closer to that than something one would
         | commission from a designer.
        
         | syntheweave wrote:
         | 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.
        
         | onlyrealcuzzo wrote:
         | 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.
        
           | spacebanana7 wrote:
           | I reckon we'll move out of the prompt difficulty phase you
           | mention simply when the context window gets big enough.
           | 
           | If you were able to give midjourney a short textual
           | instruction, a hand drawn sketch and a reference image from a
           | human artist all together as a prompt then I'm pretty sure it
           | could produce the image of a boy doing a high jump as you
           | intent.
           | 
           | We already see extended length multimedia prompts in GPT4 so
           | it's doesn't seem like an impossible leap for
           | midjourney/DALL-E etc
        
       | numpad0 wrote:
       | What is going on with Microsoft's recent hilariously bad
       | localization? The website[0] in ja-JP says "Create Image Starting
       | date / Words AI was used on:". And the tool is erroneously
       | translated as "Image created by" at the top, while kept in the
       | original "Image Creator" as proper noun at the bottom, which is
       | inconsistent to say the least.
       | 
       | This is how "You SIR winned a LOTTERY!!! Clame prise NOW!!!"
       | pages look like, not how a Microsoft webpage looks like.
       | 
       | Could you please just altogether stop trying to translate partial
       | languages[2], and to validate translation by machine-back-
       | translating to English, and perhaps stop assigning non-native
       | speakers to translation tasks? Or is Microsoft that much
       | unfocused in this market?
       | 
       | 0: https://www.bing.com/images/create?FORM=GDPUP1
       | 
       | 1: https://imgur.com/a/z4ghrsH
       | 
       | 2: Including texts separated from UI; "design languages" is a
       | recognized term, if so, aren't geometric relationships and visual
       | cues part of the language too? Am I not right?
        
       | Pigalowda wrote:
       | This is pretty damn amazing. Very quick as well
        
       | 93po wrote:
       | 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 suspended for the prompt "full bodied man" after "full
       | bodied woman" was blocked.
       | 
       | Suspension says for violating content policy - I never asked a
       | single time for anything explicitly sexual. Never asked for
       | nudity, nakedness, sexuality, or anything like that. Never asked
       | for a bikini or other revealing concept on a human. Only possible
       | implications of sexual nature were "in milk" which it clearly
       | found sexual, and "swimming" and only because it implies lots of
       | skin showing.
       | 
       | In one instance, it showed a topless woman swimming, but breasts
       | were blurred and had skin-colored nipples and basically looked
       | like Barbie, and had shadows where nipples would go.
       | 
       | I am guessing it checks content two ways: both in the prompt, and
       | then a second time on the actual generated image before
       | displaying it. Which is smart.
       | 
       | I am guessing my suspension was based on blocked images,
       | regardless of what I was asking for.
       | 
       | It's interesting that it also seemingly censors anything it
       | detects as looking like nudity, but also in one case still
       | displayed the censored version. or maybe it just happened to
       | generate something that looked censored and therefore didn't
       | trigger the nudity check
        
         | ElijahLynn wrote:
         | 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.
        
         | dgant wrote:
         | Did the suspension carry a duration?
        
       | loudandskittish wrote:
       | Huh, this one actually seems to work... I ask for pixel art and
       | it gives me pixel art (Stable Diffusion and DALL-E keep giving me
       | needlepoint).
        
       | yanis_t wrote:
       | Wait, is it free?
        
         | IanCal wrote:
         | Seems like you get 25 free faster generations per week.
        
           | rejectfinite wrote:
           | Yes but its stil free after that, just slower.
        
       | brink wrote:
       | I feel like I'm looking at aliens wearing people's skin.
       | https://kota.is/qpxa1.png
       | 
       | Nightmare inducing. I hate it. https://kota.is/X57J5.png
       | 
       | Ugh, this legit makes my stomach turn. https://kota.is/Q2hUI.jpg
       | 
       | It's like a bad amusement park ride; no thanks.
        
         | notahacker wrote:
         | Not sure what's scarier, the faces or the message from Chtulu
         | in the text!
         | 
         | Unless these examples were cherry picked rare fails, I'm
         | surprised it's so bad when there are a few of other generative
         | models out there including ones by OpenAI which do human faces
         | almost perfectly. Unless they're really throttling processing
         | power used?
        
         | barking_biscuit wrote:
         | The models at the moment don't do well on scenes where the
         | faces are small and far away. I assume it's due to training on
         | 256px by 256px images and not being able to capture enough
         | detail in that, so the gens look horrible like this.
         | 
         | At present, when using Stable Diffusion, you can address this
         | as part of your workflow by fixing the faces with inpainting /
         | upscaling. This can also be automated in a scriptable way using
         | the Unprompted extension.
        
         | flangola7 wrote:
         | This is worse than SD 1
        
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