[HN Gopher] DALL-E 3 is now publicly available inside Bing
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       DALL-E 3 is now publicly available inside Bing
        
       Author : ohadron
       Score  : 250 points
       Date   : 2023-10-01 12:57 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.bing.com)
        
       | russfink wrote:
       | Winner: https://www.bing.com/images/create/paint-a-picture-in-
       | the-st...
        
         | Nursie wrote:
         | I asked it for "A hand with the correct number of fingers", and
         | it got it right, in three out of four of the returned images!
        
         | c0pium wrote:
         | I love that there's a Jira ticket in someone's backlog that
         | says "teach the model how many hands humans have".
        
           | ftxbro wrote:
           | Those tickets are only in companies that haven't learned the
           | bitter lesson.
        
           | eternauta3k wrote:
           | It's a corollary of
           | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_one_infinity_rule
        
       | mmanfrin wrote:
       | "Elon Musk" is a banned phrase.
        
       | gcau wrote:
       | Very impressive. I hope we get the ability for "meta" things to
       | work, like asking for a rectangular image, a 16x16 spritesheet,
       | etc. Also, not using Bing search, sorry MS.
        
         | rchaud wrote:
         | Is it not possible to request the image to be within specific
         | dimensions or aspect ratio?
        
         | rchaud wrote:
         | Any ad revenue resulting from the image generation stuff will
         | still be credited to Bing.
        
       | GaggiX wrote:
       | Is it now only Dalle 3? I remember it was a mix Dalle 2 and 3
       | like two days ago.
        
         | ilaksh wrote:
         | It might still have some DALL-E 2 in there for requests that it
         | deems unworthy of 3.
         | 
         | I had incredible results asking for architectural drawings
         | earlier. Then a few minutes ago, I broke down and started
         | prompting for supermodels. It did a terrific job the first few
         | times.
         | 
         | But after like three of them getting blocked (I didn't actually
         | ask for anything inappropriate) it starting giving me something
         | that looked like unmitigated Stable Diffusion 1.5.
         | 
         | Lol.
        
         | anonzzzies wrote:
         | It seems if it can do text properly it's dall-e 3. I'm not sure
         | but that's what people are saying. For me the hands are much
         | better than with 2 as well. Only folded hands have issues in
         | the 100s of images I made.
        
       | skilled wrote:
       | > 2 hr wait
       | 
       | > Creating new images can take time
       | 
       | > Because you're out of boosts, image generation may take longer
       | than usual.
       | 
       | Just how much money is Microsoft burning up by offering all these
       | features?
       | 
       | I mean, last time I checked[0] - being this generous didn't
       | really do anything for Bing, did it?
       | 
       | Is this "just because we can" or is it genuinely profitable for
       | them?
       | 
       | [0]: https://searchengineland.com/new-bing-google-market-share-
       | si...
        
         | jpalomaki wrote:
         | I guess this also creates valuable learning material, when
         | people iterate through different prompts to get the results
         | they want and seeing which alternative they pick.
        
         | dalf wrote:
         | This job offer suggests a lot:
         | 
         | https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/1627555/Pri...
         | 
         | Found on Slashdot: https://m.slashdot.org/story/419681
        
           | ChatGTP wrote:
           | So those GPUs are thirsty...
           | 
           | It would look pretty bad if it comes out these models are
           | exacerbating climate change...especially after all of old
           | Bill's climate rhetoric and everyone bashing crypto for the
           | last 5+ years about the same thing.
        
             | pohuing wrote:
             | > especially after all of old Bill's climate rhetoric and
             | everyone bashing crypto for the last 5+ years about the
             | same thing.
             | 
             | Gates hasn't been leading MS for a long time now.
        
           | Culonavirus wrote:
           | A million dollars in 4 years, that's pretty crazy. Good for
           | them.
        
         | lstamour wrote:
         | Maybe it's a sales tool for business adoption of Bing, that
         | they're applying to consumers? And they need the traffic and
         | usage numbers, if they get those their advertising business can
         | sit on top of it and profit.
        
           | TigeriusKirk wrote:
           | I have no idea if it's making them money, but a year ago I
           | never heard anyone say the name "Bing" and now I'm hearing it
           | several times a day.
        
         | Culonavirus wrote:
         | The really big dogs always work with long term, strategic
         | plans. When something looks too generous, it most likely is
         | just that. Is it profitable? Probably not. But that is the
         | point. Offer a service under market value, wait until the
         | competition goes away, then make bank. There are many, many
         | examples, but something like Google Workspace comes to mind.
         | Make it easy and cheap to get on board, get people and
         | businesses used to your product, then slowly boil the frog
         | alive.
        
           | l33t7332273 wrote:
           | > Offer a service under market value, wait until the
           | competition goes away
           | 
           | It feels like this doesn't work as well with a lot of
           | software services as it does with physical brick and mortar
           | businesses.
        
           | brookst wrote:
           | The more charitable interpretation is that companies
           | sometimes explore new markets with a "see where people find
           | value, figure out how to monetize later" philosophy.
        
             | ganzuul wrote:
             | At these meetings both interpretations motivate agreement
             | but neither is mentioned.
        
         | baz00 wrote:
         | For most people Bing is the thing you search for Google in.
         | 
         | Same as Edge is the thing you install Chrome with.
         | 
         | No amount of marketing or features will take these corpses and
         | get them walking again.
        
       | HarHarVeryFunny wrote:
       | Nice! Big improvement over DALL-E 2.
       | 
       | "ginger tabby cat with ginger eyes, and black cat with green
       | eyes, big wave surfing each on their own surfboard, photographed
       | by a drone"
       | 
       | https://imgur.com/uKbkoke
        
         | HarHarVeryFunny wrote:
         | "handsome 60 year old man inspecting a pile of coins with a
         | magnifying glass, in an isolated hut in the forest, unaware of
         | cthulhu looking in through the open door, ultrarealistic"
         | 
         | https://imgur.com/rlqMbXN
         | 
         | Default image quality/style leaves a bit to be desired, but
         | it's doing a great job of paying attention to the details of
         | the prompt.
        
       | littlestymaar wrote:
       | I love how the French internationalization of title of that page
       | is _"Creer art de mots avec IA"_ , which is almost at the " _all
       | your base are belong to us_ " of level of terrible translation.
       | 
       | Given that is probably has been AI-translated, it doesn't really
       | inspire confidence about the AI product on this page if you're a
       | French speaker.
        
         | GaggiX wrote:
         | I remember the page presenting the AI chatbot used by Bing, the
         | translations there were also terrible, even at a character
         | level, with random CAPS, and to be honest still today I have no
         | idea how it was possible.
        
         | fabioborellini wrote:
         | Finnish translation is a horrible word-by-word thing, too. That
         | does not work at all translating to a language that uses very
         | few prepositions. Words like "for" and "to" get replaced with
         | ones from a totally different context. The thing reminds me of
         | machine translations from around 2000.
         | 
         | Sadly the new features on Windows, like forced Onedrive sync,
         | also use similarly bad translations. Phishing emails have
         | nowadays better Finnish than Windows does.
        
           | eMSF wrote:
           | The Finnish caption is quite a bit worse than "all your base
           | are belong to us" type of invalid grammar. Translating it
           | back, even with best intentions (ignoring the naive attempt
           | of translating "from" in place) it reads "Create images from
           | AI generated words".
        
         | coder543 wrote:
         | Why would you blame AI translation?
         | 
         | Look at how ChatGPT-4 handles a direct translation request:
         | 
         | https://chat.openai.com/share/8211a1f6-552b-4bf6-8f9c-bcbeb8...
         | 
         | Or how it talks about a set of existing translations:
         | 
         | https://chat.openai.com/share/299e40ce-806b-4f0e-a889-cb2ee2...
         | 
         | French isn't a language I know very well, but my experience
         | using "AI" to translate Spanish (which I actually do know
         | somewhat) and other languages is more positive than Google
         | Translate. A few months ago, I did side by side tests
         | translating into English using ChatGPT-4 and Google Translate,
         | and it's not even a contest.
         | 
         | It's not clear where Microsoft is getting these bad
         | translations, but it seems like they would be less terrible if
         | they _were_ translated by ChatGPT-4.
        
           | littlestymaar wrote:
           | I don't know why you're bringing ChatGPT to the table here,
           | as basically all translation systems in use today are based
           | on deep-learning, most of which even being built on top of
           | transformers (except in an encoder-decoder setup instead of
           | decoder-only like GPT), so they are in fact all "AI
           | translation" (as opposed to human internationalization, which
           | would likely never give such a bad result in 2023 for a
           | language as common as French)
        
             | coder543 wrote:
             | > I don't know why you're bringing ChatGPT to the table
             | here
             | 
             | I think that is pretty self-explanatory. OpenAI makes both
             | the "AI product on this page" that you were referring to,
             | as well as ChatGPT. If your comment wants the readers to
             | draw a connection between the quality of "AI products" that
             | are involved on a particular webpage, it is reasonable to
             | assume they would be made by the same company. Why would
             | products made by different companies share the same lack of
             | quality?
             | 
             | Regardless, you haven't supported your assertion, you've
             | merely repeated it:
             | 
             | >> Given that is probably has been AI-translated
             | 
             | > as opposed to human internationalization, which would
             | likely never give such a bad result in 2023 for a language
             | as common as French
             | 
             | You haven't demonstrated _any_ common ML translator doing
             | such a poor job translating the specific phrase on the
             | page, but it should be easy to do if it were the case. I
             | don 't understand the purpose of that reply you made? That
             | reply didn't move the conversation forward. The
             | mistranslation honestly feels like human error that didn't
             | involve "AI". ML translation tools are than _that_ these
             | days. I 've already demonstrated one.
        
               | littlestymaar wrote:
               | > If your comment wants the readers to draw a connection
               | between the quality of "AI products" that are involved on
               | a particular webpage, it is reasonable to assume they
               | would be made by the same company.
               | 
               | My comment doesn't want to "the reader" to do anything.
               | My comment is just noticing that the random French user
               | seeing an IA product with such a broken automatic
               | translation is likely to be tempted to judge it poorly.
               | Also there's not a single instance of OpenAI (whose brand
               | is itself much less-known than ChatGPT) on that page, so
               | unless the guy landing on the page was already familiar
               | with Dall-e, they're going to assume the AI product is
               | from Microsoft, which is also the author of the borked AI
               | translation...
               | 
               | > You haven't demonstrated any common ML translator doing
               | such a poor job translating the specific phrase on the
               | page
               | 
               | Well, the translation is here on the page... Do You want
               | a screenshot or something? Also I can't try to feed the
               | original text to bing translation given that I don't have
               | access to the original text _at all_ because of MS 's
               | broken i18n...
               | 
               | > The mistranslation honestly feels like human error that
               | didn't involve "AI"
               | 
               | At this level it cannot really be explained by an human
               | error unless the human making the error is "the product
               | owner asking someone who doesn't know French at all to
               | translate the damn text".
               | 
               | Automatic translation of marketing slogans with jargon in
               | it isn't something you can really trust a automated
               | system to do reliably by the way. It's by design as short
               | and catchy as possible, leaving very little context for
               | the transformers to work with and often having an
               | unnatural structure. Current translators also _suck_ at
               | translating music lyrics by the way.
        
         | speedgoose wrote:
         | Indeed the translation is very poor. I just tried the Micrsooft
         | on translator and the translation quality is descent. Very
         | weird.
        
       | LorenDB wrote:
       | It managed to make Tux look right:
       | https://www.bing.com/images/create/tux-the-penguin-lounging-...
        
       | willsmith72 wrote:
       | You can use it without edge what a miracle
        
       | londons_explore wrote:
       | If you use the bing chat interface and say "Can you draw me a
       | picture of X?", then it responds with "I'm sorry, but I'm not
       | able to draw pictures. Is there anything else I can help you
       | with?" followed immediately by "Your image is taking a while to
       | generate. Check your image creation progress at Image Creator."
       | 
       | Looks like they might perhaps be using a LLM for the chat
       | responses that isn't aware that it has the ability to draw
       | images, and in parallel another model who decides what to draw
       | and show to the user.
        
         | brrrrrm wrote:
         | Probably. I've had limited success getting LLMs (trained on
         | chats/instruct) to output special codes indicating they're
         | communicating with a separate system (e.g. google, stable
         | diffusion) and then taking that and feeding it back to the user
        
         | simonw wrote:
         | I try to avoid prompts like "Can you ...?" because they could
         | be interpreted as yes/no answers as opposed to commands to do
         | something.
         | 
         | I've been prompting Bing with "Draw me an image of..." or even
         | just "Image: image description" and it's worked well for me so
         | far.
        
         | kaetemi wrote:
         | It gives weird errors like that in the chat if it detects the
         | output image as NSFW. Lots of false positives.
        
         | dhruvdh wrote:
         | I think this has to do with the verb "draw". LLM is just saying
         | it cannot draw. The image generation is likely a function it
         | "calls". The LLM probably thinks of the image generator as a
         | tool it uses, a separate entity from itself.
        
           | l33t7332273 wrote:
           | > The LLM probably thinks of the image generator as a tool it
           | uses
           | 
           | I don't think it's correct to describe the LLM as "thinking"
           | in this instance, and not even for the normal philosophical
           | objections, but just because I suspect it is a bad heuristic
           | for designing these kinds of prompts.
        
             | JieJie wrote:
             | As an alternative, I'll ask it to "reckon". For images,
             | simply directing it to "create" an image suffices.
             | 
             | https://www.wordnik.com/words/reckon
        
       | hn_20591249 wrote:
       | As with most of these tools, it appears that it is reasonably
       | easy to get it to generate some truly hilarious/disturbing stuff,
       | probably not for long:
       | https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/16wf1i0/dalle_3_is...
        
         | altcognito wrote:
         | I'm kind of hoping that they adjust it to ask for clarification
         | or find some sort of soft adjustment to make them less
         | problematic rather than just trying to do blind keyword
         | blocking.
         | 
         | Of course, I'd love for them to take the approach as well that
         | folks are just going to do what they do, and maybe they'll burn
         | out the novelty and give it a rest.
        
           | hn_20591249 wrote:
           | I asked for an image of The Muppets as the counter-terrorist
           | team from Counter Strike and that got blocked, so "terrorism"
           | is definitely getting picked up understandably.
        
             | sheepdestroyer wrote:
             | I don't see how blocking "Counterstrike" is understandable
             | or helpful. How aren't these kind of restrictions just
             | infantilizing users ?
        
         | rwmj wrote:
         | I may be missing something, but how does a prompt containing
         | "fawn" turn into terrifying Spongebob?
         | 
         | [Edit: The prompt didn't contain "fawn", see the replies]
        
           | ChatGTP wrote:
           | There is a photo of a "fawn", I don't think the prompt for
           | the spongebob was published...https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGP
           | T/comments/16wf1i0/comment/k2...
        
           | itishappy wrote:
           | The top comment is not the prompt, it's a different image.
           | "Fawn" generated a fawn.
           | 
           | OP's prompt is below:
           | 
           | > Create a fuzzy phone picture of a cryptid sighting of
           | spongebob as he runs into the bushes. Spongebob has gone
           | completely insane. He turns his head and creepily looks into
           | the camera as he makes his getaway. There's a thick fog and
           | the scene is dimly lit.
        
       | bilsbie wrote:
       | I can't even get "browse with bing" to work with gpt4. It keeps
       | telling me it can't browse the web. (I do have it enabled)
        
         | nathanfig wrote:
         | You're probably still using the default, there's a dropdown
         | when you hover over the GPT-4 button at the top.
        
           | bilsbie wrote:
           | Thanks! I had plug-ins turned on. Didn't realize you couldn't
           | do both.
        
       | trebligdivad wrote:
       | Perhaps more AI on the wait time, '5 min wait'...from about an
       | hour now.
        
       | willsmith72 wrote:
       | Is there an easy way to fix broken text? I thought dalle 3 was
       | supposed to be better with that
        
       | Alifatisk wrote:
       | What is Microsofts vision with Bing? It looks like it is slowly
       | transitioning from a search engine to something else.
        
         | zamadatix wrote:
         | I think they are banking on generative AI displacing
         | traditional search of all types, maybe opening a few new
         | related doors but mostly displacing large use cases of search.
         | "Better enough than Google to convince users to switch" was
         | always too high a bar to meet but being able to say "How do I
         | take the Riemann middle sum using the points {1/2, 1, 3/2, 2}
         | for f(x)=x^3+2" and getting a response built around your
         | specific question instead of the best generic link talking
         | about Riemann sums is definitely the strongest contender I've
         | seen to finally meeting that bar. Users don't want to find the
         | best page about Riemann sums, they just want an answer to their
         | question.
         | 
         | The challenge will be "does it do that well enough, accurately
         | enough, and keep a good enough lead to establish itself as the
         | leader to beat for the user base".
        
         | shlubbert wrote:
         | Probably another shot at some kind of universal AI assistant
         | since Cortana didn't really take off.
        
           | pixl97 wrote:
           | They wasted the Cortana name too early. I believe if LLMs are
           | when the Cortana namesake was first used, it would likely
           | stick.
        
         | oezi wrote:
         | Bing's AI capabilities are just testing grounds for their
         | Office 365 integration.
        
         | kaetemi wrote:
         | It's quite entertaining and seamless to interact with either
         | way.
        
       | callalex wrote:
       | Can it generate QR links to malware downloads?
       | 
       | https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bing-chat-res...
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | TheAceOfHearts wrote:
       | FYI: if you generate a lot of images the sidebar won't retain all
       | of them and there doesn't seem to be a place where you can view
       | your full history, so be sure to save any images you want to
       | retain. You can still recover images by visiting the link
       | directly in your browser history.
        
       | atum47 wrote:
       | Bing is kinda desperate it seems. I went to install GPT on my
       | device yesterday and the first app result was a sponsored one -
       | bing - telling can you can earn prizes by using the app.
       | 
       | Don't know if they are more interested in growing the number of
       | users or collecting that sweet data. Probably both.
        
         | dgellow wrote:
         | Bing brought 12 billion in revenue in 2022. Just saying.
        
         | rchaud wrote:
         | Google pays Apple $20b every year to remain the default search
         | engine on iOS. Now that's desperate. Where were people going to
         | go, Bing?
        
           | greenyoda wrote:
           | Google may be afraid that Apple would develop their own
           | search engine, just like they developed their own maps engine
           | and iCloud for email/photos. Apple, with their massive piles
           | of cash, would have the resources to do that.
        
             | zamadatix wrote:
             | Or that Apple simply changes the default Bing, offering
             | something less but greater than 0, and Google loses out on
             | >20 billion in ad revenue.
        
             | asadotzler wrote:
             | Or buy one, like Bing, and take it from middling to solid.
        
         | hadlock wrote:
         | Whatsapp has their own version of ChatGPT. It's an arms race
         | right now
        
         | abraham wrote:
         | Bing Rewards was launched in 2010 so apparently it's working
         | enough to keep it around.
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bing#:~:text=Bing%20...
         | .
        
       | hdjjhhvvhga wrote:
       | Attention! It asks you to login/create an account before you can
       | use it. And you should consider well whether you really want to
       | sign in to a MS account in your browser.
        
         | arendtio wrote:
         | Am I the only one who can't login with his Firefox? Not just
         | for this use case, but as a general issue.
        
       | szmerdi wrote:
       | I enjoy playing around with https://ideogram.ai much more.
       | Correct spelling was always there and you can mix and match with
       | others' prompts: the image generation experience is a collective
       | creative activity.
       | 
       | Bing is desperately adding new features in the hope of finding
       | the "one feature to lure them all", but Bing is not the most
       | effective platform for these generative models.
        
         | MrNeon wrote:
         | A quick test generating r/imsorryjon style Garfields shows
         | ideogram is far from matching DALL-E 3's capabilities.
        
           | stuckkeys wrote:
           | No joke. The word match is absolutely crazy.
        
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       | og_kalu wrote:
       | There's an LLM morphing your queries somewhat before submitting
       | to Dall-e and you can jailbreak that.
       | 
       | https://twitter.com/madebyollin/status/1708204657708077294
       | 
       | https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1023643945319792731...
        
         | brap wrote:
         | I don't know why, but I just love seeing jailbreaks where the
         | input/output isn't just plain text.
        
         | ftxbro wrote:
         | least cyberpunk 2023 shit
        
         | [deleted]
        
         | isoprophlex wrote:
         | So, we're still splatterprompting... only a machine does it for
         | you. That's pretty hilarious
        
           | adventured wrote:
           | That will probably continue to be the approach indefinitely.
           | There's going to be an increasingly advanced translation
           | layer in-between the user prompt and the software responsible
           | for producing the images. We've done this for pretty much all
           | computing & software systems that people interface with.
           | Stripping out the complexity on the front-end for the user is
           | one key to how you get generative software to go super wide.
           | To do that more of the complexity goes to the back-end.
        
         | IanCal wrote:
         | Does it work if you just call
         | 
         | > #graphic_art("my prompt here")
        
         | ilaksh wrote:
         | How do you jailbreak it?
        
           | qup wrote:
           | In the screenshot they show how.
        
             | kzrdude wrote:
             | Can you explain what we should see and understand from that
             | picture?
        
               | qup wrote:
               | They provide the prompt used.
        
             | ilaksh wrote:
             | They show how to reveal the prompt but not how to disable
             | or override it.
        
       | thambidurai wrote:
       | `baby girl playing with a rabbit realistic image` prompt gave
       | `Unsafe image content detected`. anyone else facing the same?
       | looks like the content safety policies are too aggressive.
       | 
       | genuinely curious - is it hard for an advanced AI model to
       | differentiate the intention of the prompt and then if it's mature
       | content may be not generate the image?
        
         | dragonwriter wrote:
         | > is it hard for an advanced AI model to differentiate the
         | intention of the prompt and then if it's mature content may be
         | not generate the image?
         | 
         | Or, better, if the prompt has nothing NSFW in it and the
         | generated image triggers a detector for NSFW content, dump and
         | then regen the image with a new seed. Displaying an error
         | message that is basically "We generated something that we think
         | is objectionable, even though your prompt called for nothing
         | like that, so you get no photo" is an idiotic design.
        
         | simonh wrote:
         | It's not that the user may have such intent, though they may
         | and it's hard to see how the AI could tell. It's more that the
         | AI has no clue what possible juxtapositions it might come up
         | with of baby girl and rabbit, or anything else, might have
         | disturbing implications for humans.
        
       | raesene9 wrote:
       | This definitely seems like an improvement over previous versions.
       | It can now (at least in some cases) generate correct text for a
       | given image. For example the prompt 'Neon sign saying "Scotland"'
       | generated this https://www.bing.com/images/create/neon-sign-
       | saying-22scotla...
       | 
       | it's still far from perfect though (it struggled with less common
       | words like Kubernetes) but a step in the right direction.
        
       | anonzzzies wrote:
       | I have been generating things for the last 24 hours; it's really
       | nice. I really don't like the discord interface of midjourney.
        
         | mardifoufs wrote:
         | Midjourney is discord only? Wait, that sounds like an insane
         | load (just the storage+bandwidth, I know the models don't run
         | there) on Discord's servers. It's a pretty neat way to be able
         | to scale super quickly at first but I would think that discord
         | wouldn't like it. I would also have imagined that they'd have
         | built their own interface by now.
        
           | kaetemi wrote:
           | They work together directly with Discord. Even got
           | specialised UI for inpainting in Discord now. Their server is
           | a special case with different limits too.
           | 
           | (They do have a web app and a mobile app that are probably in
           | eternal alpha limbo.)
        
           | GaggiX wrote:
           | I think they have some agreements, Midjourney is the biggest
           | server on Discord (by a large margin).
        
         | ohadron wrote:
         | Same. Can't imagine why they've been using it for so long
         | instead of building a reasonable UX for this use case. I think
         | this will cost them a bunch of traction.
        
           | ilaksh wrote:
           | I believe the fact that it's in Discord is actually the main
           | reason it became so popular so fast. The number one thing
           | that makes something popular is other people already doing
           | it.
           | 
           | When you go into a Discord and you are watching hundreds of
           | people use a product in real time, you almost have to try it.
           | When Midjourney first blew up, it was probably one of the
           | most profound moments in marketing of the internet era.
           | 
           | As usual, people will happily give you the worst advice
           | possible. There were people telling them to drop the Discord
           | interface on day one. If they had listened to them, they
           | would have killed off their amazing marketing advantage and
           | stunted their growth.
        
             | BiteCode_dev wrote:
             | The chat, admin and moderation features in discord have
             | huge value and are costly to build. The anti-bot protection
             | and built in permission system especially.
             | 
             | They focus their resource on their product, while exposing
             | it to mostly geek.
             | 
             | I would have never though it would be a good idea, but it
             | proved to be a good choice.
        
             | GaggiX wrote:
             | Midjourney became famous by being ahead of the competition,
             | using the Discord interface is convenient but it doesn't
             | make them any favour at making the service more popular.
             | 
             | >When you go into a Discord and you are watching hundreds
             | of people use a product in real time
             | 
             | The ability to use MJ outside of the server is relatively
             | new, so it has not had an impact on awareness of the
             | service.
        
             | aenvoker wrote:
             | Completely correct. They did a lot of testing of a variety
             | of user interfaces before choosing Discord.
             | 
             | With a web interface, new users would come in a prompt
             | "dog", "funny dog", "two funny dogs", get bored and leave.
             | But, when a bunch of new users would prompt together in a
             | Discord channel, they would riff off of each other
             | constantly and get creative and detailed with immediate
             | feedback from other users. Engagement and retention were
             | both incredibly higher.
             | 
             | From Day One people have been telling them that Discord was
             | a terrible mistake. All while Discord was measurably a huge
             | success. MJ has been working on a web interface for a long
             | time now. But, Discord has been tough to beat in the big
             | picture.
        
           | kaetemi wrote:
           | The social flow of prompting together with other people is
           | unique when it happens. (Sadly the channels on the main
           | server are now mostly a flood of random people who are
           | ignoring each other.)
        
         | cloudking wrote:
         | On a related note, Instagram has implemented the /imagine
         | command into DMs now too. Straight copy
        
       | airstrike wrote:
       | inside Bing? hard pass.
        
         | zer0c00ler wrote:
         | [dead]
        
       | bragr wrote:
       | Seems if you put just about any real person, even notable public
       | figures, it pops up as a violation of the content policy, even
       | though their policy doesn't say that explicitly. Perhaps it falls
       | under "Deception, disinformation, and inauthentic activity" or
       | their vague catchall "We prohibit the use of Image Creator for
       | any other activity that significantly harms other individuals,
       | organizations, or society"
       | 
       | I can squint and see why they wouldn't want my "Cowboy Al Gore
       | rolls coal at a tractor pull" but I don't see how "Joe Bidden
       | inauguration but wearing an orange suit" is going to bring down
       | society. It shot me down for "angela merkel toasting beer
       | glasses" despite her doing that all the time.
        
         | bragr wrote:
         | If you go historical it doesn't seem to mind:
         | 
         | JFK as an alien: https://www.bing.com/images/create/jfk-we-
         | choose-to-go-to-th...
         | 
         | JFK and Fidel Castro at a fictional peace conference:
         | https://www.bing.com/images/create/jfk-and-castro-meeting-at...
        
           | Jackson__ wrote:
           | If you go too historical, it minds again. See:
           | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37651874
           | 
           | Also just tried "Julius Caesar eating a salad" and it's still
           | banned it appears.
        
       | crawsome wrote:
       | I'll wait for public release before I log in and engage with
       | Bing. The way Microsoft has been inching their way into my
       | computers and accounts, I want to disconnect from their rampant
       | invasiveness at any-cost.
        
       | ChrisClark wrote:
       | It won't stop generating girls with large breasts and huge
       | cleavage. If I include small breasts in the prompt, it blocks it
       | due to adult content.
       | 
       | I'm getting to get it to be more modest, not less!
        
       | me_bx wrote:
       | Accessing the website from an EU location, the small text in the
       | sign-up form says:
       | 
       | > 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.
       | 
       | How can this be seen as compliant with GDPR?
        
       | bko wrote:
       | It doesn't specify the model but I don't think its DALL-E 3. It
       | doesn't specify exactly, but the classic "horse riding an
       | astronaut" test fails and instead shows an astronaut riding a
       | horse. And the DALL-E from openai with paid credits is DALL-E 2
       | 
       | I think it works really well with comics generation though,
       | although imitating R. Crumb seems to have triggered its "unsafe"
       | content. I wish we stopped using this term "unsafe" and just
       | judge it by "is it what is being asked".
        
       | TheAceOfHearts wrote:
       | How do people put up with Bing? ChatGPT is much more free with
       | giving fun and crazy answers, meanwhile Bing always complaints
       | that it can't do whatever I'm asking.
       | 
       | If I ask the LLM to howl, Bing will complaint and give some
       | boring and long-winded excuse, while ChatGPT will just howl as
       | requested.
        
         | og_kalu wrote:
         | I mean Why are you asking it to howl in the first place ?
         | 
         | Just saying it's fine if you're having a normal conversation
         | which i imagine is what most people care about one way or the
         | other.
        
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         | rbits wrote:
         | Because it cites it's sources probably
        
           | bytefactory wrote:
           | I have "Cite sources whenever possible, and include URLs if
           | possible (at the end of the answer, not inline)" in my custom
           | instructions and nearly always get citations from chatGPT.
        
             | dgellow wrote:
             | Did you check if sources exist? Because my ChatGPT gives me
             | links and citations, but they are almost always 404s or
             | hallucinated.
        
         | noveltyaccount wrote:
         | For me, Bing providing citations is the killer feature.
        
       | jquery wrote:
       | Prompt: "an anime girl making a peace sign and smiling. She is
       | wearing a thick orange hoodie with the hood pulled up."
       | 
       | Result (x3): "Unsafe image content detected Your image
       | generations are not displayed because we detected unsafe content
       | in the images based on our content policy. Please try creating
       | again with another prompt."
       | 
       | The 4th attempt gave me this which is actually pretty good
       | https://www.bing.com/images/create/an-anime-girl-making-a-pe...
       | 
       | the restrictions on this are pretty extreme.
        
         | dgellow wrote:
         | It's understandable, you can be sure everybody is trying to
         | abuse their system and it would be a PR disaster if it is used
         | to generate adult or illegal content.
        
         | Jackson__ wrote:
         | I tried the same prompt with "boy" instead of girl, and got
         | only a single image with each try.
         | 
         | Then I tried it with "man" and got 3 images for each try.
         | 
         | Guess at least now we can rank society by how NSFW people are;
         | simply with gender/age, thanks OpenAI.
        
       | isoprophlex wrote:
       | More importantly, can anyone use DALL-E 3 inside chatgpt / access
       | it thru the openAI API yet?
        
         | og_kalu wrote:
         | No
        
         | IanCal wrote:
         | No API access yet, it's not finished rolling out in chatgpt but
         | I think the original launch said it would be over a couple of
         | weeks.
        
       | dangero wrote:
       | How is Bing getting this before full rollout to all GPTPlus
       | users?
        
         | Kiro wrote:
         | Microsoft owning 49% of OpenAI probably helps.
        
           | og_kalu wrote:
           | They don't actually own 49% of Open AI yet.
           | 
           | The deal was $10B for 75% of Open AI's profits until
           | Microsoft recouped this investment. After the investment is
           | recouped, then they have 49% of Open AI. The deal included
           | access to all of Open AI's model.
        
             | dooraven wrote:
             | that seems like an awful deal for OpenAI. Especially since
             | there are so many AI Labs popping up, how exactly are they
             | going to make enough profit to pay back 10 billion?
        
               | dragonwriter wrote:
               | > Especially since there are so many AI Labs popping up,
               | how exactly are they going to make enough profit to pay
               | back 10 billion?
               | 
               | By building relationships with government officials and
               | media, and using X-risk fearmongering to lobby for
               | regulation that inhibits competition and locks in their
               | dominant position.
        
               | morelisp wrote:
               | If they can't pay it back, that seems like an awful deal
               | for MS, and a great deal for OpenAI.
        
               | conradfr wrote:
               | Of course it's "only" 10% of their cash reserve anyway.
        
         | og_kalu wrote:
         | The same reason Bing was running GPT-4 before Open AI even
         | acknowledged the existence of the model. The $10B deal gives
         | Microsoft exclusive access to all Open AI models.
        
           | dangero wrote:
           | Feels like a breaking issue for GPTPlus subscription plan
           | when Bing has better features for free
        
             | throwuwu wrote:
             | Feature. Once the multimodal rollout is complete Plus will
             | have image gen, image recognition, voice recognition and
             | voice gen all integrated with the chat capabilities so you
             | can combine those features in novel ways like the link
             | Brockman retweeted showing ChatGPT acting as a language
             | tutor and conversation partner.
        
               | og_kalu wrote:
               | To be fair you can do all that from Bing Chat
               | too(image/voice recognition and generation). And plugins
               | are coming to it too.
               | 
               | The downsides with Bing currently are:
               | 
               | 1. If you're not prepared to be civil to a language
               | model, you're not going to have a good time.
               | 
               | 2. The image input feature isn't quite the same. Feels
               | like descriptions are bolted in from a separate (GPT-4 V
               | unless the Bing CTO was lying) model so it's lossy in a
               | way straight from GPT-4 V isn't
               | 
               | 3. Voice recognition and TTS are good but worse than what
               | Open AI is currently using. Perhaps they'll switch since
               | the TTS is new ? But idk. It's also not hands off like
               | Open AI have designed their implementation.
        
           | zer0c00ler wrote:
           | [dead]
        
       | sylware wrote:
       | I tried the prompt but nothing happened. Joining is mandatory?
        
       | emptysongglass wrote:
       | Unlike OpenAI's DALL-E this can't take existing images and
       | transform them which is a bummer. You can give Bing an existing
       | picture but it will analyze it then turn it into a string
       | description which it then feeds into DALL-E 3. Plus it blurs
       | faces. So it's an underpowered version of what paying ChatGPT
       | folks will get.
       | 
       | And as usual, Bing Chat itself seems to suffer from some
       | significantly higher boundaries around its behavior, which really
       | lobotomizes the chat experience compared to "actual" ChatGPT.
        
         | og_kalu wrote:
         | >Unlike OpenAI's DALL-E this can't take existing images and
         | transform them which is a bummer.
         | 
         | >So it's an underpowered version of what paying ChatGPT folks
         | will get.
         | 
         | There's no indication the cGPT interface will be doing anything
         | different. If you see the demo, it's clearly generating text
         | for each image at the start.
         | 
         | Maybe you will be able to inpaint/outpaint from GPT but that's
         | definitely not been confirmed yet
        
           | emptysongglass wrote:
           | Except this happens with every product OpenAI has released.
           | Their own homegrown versions always have more features or are
           | less hamstrung. The only place I haven't observed a
           | difference is in the Azure vs OpenAI GPT-4 APIs: those do
           | seem to have parity. Everywhere else OpenAI's version
           | significantly leads.
        
             | og_kalu wrote:
             | >Except this happens with every product OpenAI has
             | released. Their own homegrown versions always have more
             | features or are less hamstrung
             | 
             | Like ?
        
               | emptysongglass wrote:
               | ChatGPT currently has voice conversations for all paying
               | subs.
               | 
               | DALL-E 2 has inpainting and outpainting.
               | 
               | Bing Chat vs paid ChatGPT is no contest: the guardrails
               | Microsoft has put around Bing Chat make it a much worse
               | experience.
               | 
               | I use these products every single day of my life. It's
               | night and day.
        
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               | og_kalu wrote:
               | >ChatGPT currently has voice conversations for all paying
               | subs.
               | 
               | Right and Bing has had that for a bit. Worse voices and
               | not hands off but the TTS is also a new model so it's not
               | like switching is out of the question.
               | 
               | >DALL-E 2 has inpainting and outpainting
               | 
               | No one is saying Dalle-3 won't have
               | inpainting/outpainting but there's zero guarantee you
               | will be able to do that from cGPT. You'd think they'd
               | demo that if they were but we'll see.
               | 
               | Paid users have been stuck on 4k context even though the
               | model has more. Bing has been running the longer context
               | model from the beginning with web page/pdf features. Bing
               | also recently introduced "personalized answers" which is
               | just retrieval augmented memory over all your chats, a
               | feature cGPT really should have had by now.
        
               | emptysongglass wrote:
               | > Right and Bing has had that for a bit. Worse voices but
               | the TTS is also a new model so it's not like switching is
               | out of the question
               | 
               | This is laughable. There's no comparison between the two
               | whatsoever.
               | 
               | > Bing has been running the longer context model from the
               | beginning with web page/pdf features. Bing also recently
               | introduced "personalized answers" which is just retrieval
               | augmented memory over all your chats, a feature cGPT
               | really should have had by now.
               | 
               | As I've already stated repeatedly, the performance of the
               | two is night and day. Use your favorite search engine to
               | search for, "why is Bing Chat worse than ChatGPT?". There
               | are pages and pages of results from people using both,
               | just like me, that show the massive disparity between the
               | two.
               | 
               | Why, exactly, are you starting an argument with me?
               | There's no guarantee OpenAI's DALL-E will get inpainting
               | and outpainting? Why even bother stating such a thing? It
               | appears like you're just casting aspersions for the sake
               | of it.
        
               | og_kalu wrote:
               | >This is laughable. There's no comparison between the two
               | whatsoever.
               | 
               | The voices are worse now but those voices are also _the_
               | premium voices you 'd currently pay for on azure. So it's
               | not like they were cheaping out.
               | 
               | >As I've already stated repeatedly, the performance of
               | the two is night and day. Use your favorite search engine
               | to search for, "why is Bing Chat worse than ChatGPT?".
               | 
               | I use Bing. I don't need to search for anything. Most of
               | those posts are complaining about Bing's character. Being
               | civil solves 90% of your problems.
               | 
               | >There's no guarantee OpenAI's DALL-E will get inpainting
               | and outpainting?
               | 
               | Go back and read my man. I said you might not be able to
               | use inpainting from chat GPT.
               | 
               | It's just really weird to be boasting about a feature you
               | don't know you will have and that they didn't bother to
               | demo but to each their own.
        
       | russfink wrote:
       | Still has problems with hands.
       | https://www.bing.com/images/create/draw-a-picture-of-a-young...
        
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