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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.

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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.

Could you tell what the difference in language understanding is between Midourney and this AI (apparently Dall-E 3)? Visual quality is one thing, following the prompt is another. Example:

A monk playing chess with a clown

Two yellow books on top of three blue books

Edit: I have the Bing mobile app (Android), but the image creator is not present in the "app" list on the lower right.

My MJ sub has now lapsed unfortunately otherwise I'd do the comparison for you.

Have you applied here for access to the Bing image creator?

https://www.bing.com/create

It only took a couple of days at most and I was approved.

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

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.

That is because they are all alpha UIs built by teams that need the ability to iterate independently.

> 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.

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.

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

Realistically most of this tech was actually developed in academic labs and at Moderna, then knowledge leached out to biotech competitors.

> while people in almost all other countries were more in favor for international ratios

I have seen the first polling you've mentioned (66% of Americans favor prioritizing US). I would love the source if you have it on similar polling for people outside the US on whether to prioritize their own country.

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

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

AUKUS rising

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