Bing Image Creator
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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.
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.
>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.
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.
A monk playing chess with a clown
Two yellow books on top of three blue books
Edit: I have the Bing mobile app (Android), but the image creator is not present in the "app" list on the lower right.
Have you applied here for access to the Bing image creator?
It only took a couple of days at most and I was approved.
Just checked and no geoblock for bing image creator in india as of now.
Laws regulating websites have tradeoffs and this is one of them.
> while people in almost all other countries were more in favor for international ratios
I have seen the first polling you've mentioned (66% of Americans favor prioritizing US). I would love the source if you have it on similar polling for people outside the US on whether to prioritize their own country.
I don't have the poll, but as far as I remember only in the US was the majority for prioritizing the own country. Though the amount of money spent on "project warp speed", a US effort not matched anywhere else, could play a role here.
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
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.
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?
What is microsoft doing?
Look at midjourney 5's absolute perfection as an example.
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.
First try https://www.bing.com/images/create/a-dog-driving-a-taxi/6419...
https://www.bing.com/images/create/a-dog-driving-a-taxi/6419...
I'm wondering if paywalling the content would be right move for someone who has popular website with curated, high quality knowledge and audience - this may work only for some time because discoverability will tank, traffic and current audience dry out..
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?
The results can be quite disturbing:
https://www.bing.com/images/create/princess-peach2c-portrait...
edit: Missed the prompt. Yeah not what I’d expect Princess Peach to be.
Which is why I asked the question - maybe I’m lacking awareness of a particular piece of American culture which should make me disturbed?
Your statement is both authoritative and non-specific:why are you certain about the causality and that there is a force other than the training data and PRNG seed?
Edit: That OpenAI in fact artificially induces "diverse" characters is nothing new, this was already a special early "feature" of Dall-E 2.
Edit: Found it. https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/03/21/create-images-wi...
https://www.bing.com/images/create/princess-peach2c-by-edwar...
I think normally (without diversity intervention) a Princess Peach would always be generated as a slim white blonde, given that this is the canonical look.
https://www.bing.com/images/create/princess-peach2c-by-henri...
https://www.bing.com/images/create/princess-peach2c-self-por...
Like, anatomy?
The parent comment is welcome to correct me, but given the context of their comment I feel like it should be flagged. At the very least for inciting a toxic flamewar; but really it's just racist.
This isn't 4chan.
I'm gonna avoid this thread for now, in any case. Don't need someone telling me I'm a triggered snowflake.
Remember when DALLE came out less than a year ago and people were amazed by the avocado armchair?
Between this and Midjourney v5, the quality of AI generated art is rapidly approaching human level and I can see it getting there very soon.
The 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.
I got some great results today when experimenting with it: https://twitter.com/dgellow/status/1638496715056480259?s=20
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
From everything I tried, the results were worse.
Again, I think this is going to remain a problem for a long time - but it will probably improve slightly with each iteration. Either way there's so many use cases where the cost-benefit will massively favor AI generated art, and I think the % of cases will continue to increase - albeit slowly.
Similar to self-driving cars - they've been in limited availability in Phoenix for a long time, and now SF. The list of cities will grow, and the limitations will decrease - but I still can't see the vast majority of trips being self-driven within the next 20 years.
In the same way, I don't see AI generating the vast majority of Pixar films in 20 years. Nor AI generating Marvel comic strips or kids cartoons. Etc.
Sure - some people will be using it for these use cases. They already are, and were before GPT.
I don't see this killing jobs, but limiting job growth instead.
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.
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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.
To me, the interesting differentiation is from thinking a search engine being something than indexes information or a product that provides solutions to peoples problems and needs with a single point of entry. (Like why people type URLs into google search)
We’ve had search engines return the weather, or calculate a sum, for some time. It seems an obvious evolution for it to create solutions for users given lay users are probably already typing what they want into search.
Playing with stable diffusion on the other hand… who would search for “Stalin petting a llama” and what practical application would it have?
Instead, with good prompting, you can not request a "photo" which matches your exact desires... close enough to perfectly that your audience won't notice or won't care about the last 1% that is imperfect.
And like the early days of online music, not only will people relax and accept imperfections (bad aliasing, mediocre sound quality), they may even become so accustomed to it that they will someday intentionally inject similar imperfections into creations so those feel more "natural" (comfortable based on the audiences' experiences).
It's searching the latent space.
"a child voodoo priest"
And got a lot of interesting results:
https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIG.0R0NBSEhAJk__g2djOhW
https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIG.XoAiY81ifmW_SjeHLQMm
But then I said that the voodoo priest should be "female" and got told that it went against the content policy. I tried "woman", "girl", "lady". But all went against the content policy.
And when I tried to say that the voodoo priest should be "scary" instead, I got my account suspended.
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.
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?
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?
Are we heading to a 1984 + Brave New World future?
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.
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?
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.
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.
My point is nothing your saying is new or specific to OpenAI. These are problems with Capitalism and its influence over populations.
It is an important conversation, but a distinct and orthogonal conversation that is distracted by involving AI.
AI is already producing massive inequality between the people that are using it today and people who aren’t.
This difference is only going to increase. And very few people are going to be the winners, a lot (most) of people are going to be the losers.
It’s going to have a very deep impact in society, faster than we can prepare for.
I think the more they censor, the less it will happen; there will be competing AIs, and they will get used, and the more – users or subject matter – excluded from OpenAI’s offerings, the more competing services will be used and developed, even if they are initially behind.
Specifically, on the question of “is this a productive avenue for discussion on HN”, irrespective of opinion on the merits (though there is probably a correlation.)
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!)
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?
Here are examples that mirror your situation that don’t involve AI at all:
- I walk into a public library. I ask for the erotica section. The librarian tells me that this library doesn’t carry erotica, and if I ask about it again my library card will be revoked. Then I ask about it again, and my library card is revoked (this is exactly what you did). Now everyone else with access to the library is better at their job than me.
- I make a post on the subject of adult literature on LinkedIn and get banned, now it’s harder to get a job.
- I saturate my home Internet connection with non-stop torrent traffic and my ISP tells me to stop, citing their abuse policy. They didn’t prove that I was infringing on copyrights and their abuse policy doesn’t say they need to. I disregarded their warning and continued seeding. My ISP dropped me and now I can’t work as a remote employee effectively and as a result I lost my job.
- I have a bad habit of driving 60 MPH in a school zone. The cop gave me a ticket the first time and told me to stop. I didn’t change my behavior and now after collecting more tickets my license is suspended. Now I’ve lost my job because I can’t get to work.
Come to think of it, the fact that you couldn’t interpret and act correctly on simple instructions to keep your queries G-rated makes you a pretty unattractive job candidate to me right now!
When one of my business information systems tells you to do or not do something, how can I trust you to act accordingly when you couldn’t follow a similar instruction on your own?
LinkedIn doesn't have any policy against discussing adult literature
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7039967...
this person just got a job at an AI company that generates erotica and sends shots at openai
your 3rd and 4th example is actually illegal so consequences make sense.
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.
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.
You do know the Puritans came from England, right?
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.
(Via: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2023/bing-buttons.jp...)
Btw guys, be carefull the word "monkey" is "dangerous".
If Chrome gets tied with Bard and Edge gets tied with Chatbot, Image Creator, etc. where's that leave Firefox and other "niche" browsers?
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.
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.
I'll still use Stable Diffusion locally though - there's nothing like avoiding the potential walled garden/subscription trap.
"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.
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 :)
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1) Wait for some time and try again later: This error message usually indicates that the server is temporarily unable to process your request. You can try again later when the server is less busy.
2) Reduce the complexity of your image: The server may be overloaded due to the complexity of the image you are trying to generate. Try simplifying your image or reducing the resolution to reduce the load on the server.
3) Refresh the page: Sometimes, refreshing the page can help to clear any temporary issues with your browser or internet connection that might be causing the error.
4) Clear browser cache: Clearing your browser’s cache and cookies can help to fix various website-related issues in case the problem is occurring due to some conflict of your past history.
5) Use a different browser: If the issue persists, try using a different browser to access DALL-E-2. This can help to rule out any browser-specific issues.
6) Contact support: If the problem persists, you can contact the support team for DALL-E-2 to report the issue and get further assistance.
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