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DALL-E 3 is now publicly available inside Bing

by ohadron on 10/1/23, 12:57 PM with 154 comments

  • by og_kalu on 10/1/23, 2:38 PM

    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...

  • by hn_20591249 on 10/1/23, 1:29 PM

    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...

  • by russfink on 10/1/23, 3:17 PM

  • by raesene9 on 10/1/23, 2:10 PM

    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.

  • by londons_explore on 10/1/23, 1:58 PM

    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.

  • by anonzzzies on 10/1/23, 1:39 PM

    I have been generating things for the last 24 hours; it's really nice. I really don't like the discord interface of midjourney.

  • by atum47 on 10/1/23, 2:05 PM

    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.

  • by littlestymaar on 10/1/23, 1:26 PM

    I love how the French internationalization of title of that page is “Créer 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.

  • by LorenDB on 10/1/23, 4:44 PM

  • by skilled on 10/1/23, 1:26 PM

    > 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...

  • by TheAceOfHearts on 10/1/23, 2:50 PM

    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.

  • by jquery on 10/1/23, 4:20 PM

    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.

  • by willsmith72 on 10/1/23, 4:44 PM

    You can use it without edge what a miracle

  • by ChrisClark on 10/1/23, 6:12 PM

    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!

  • by szmerdi on 10/1/23, 3:52 PM

    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.

  • by thambidurai on 10/1/23, 3:07 PM

    `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?

  • by TheAceOfHearts on 10/1/23, 6:25 PM

    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.

  • by HarHarVeryFunny on 10/1/23, 6:20 PM

    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

  • by isoprophlex on 10/1/23, 1:50 PM

    More importantly, can anyone use DALL-E 3 inside chatgpt / access it thru the openAI API yet?

  • by me_bx on 10/1/23, 5:25 PM

    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?

  • by bko on 10/1/23, 8:44 PM

    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".

  • by hdjjhhvvhga on 10/1/23, 3:04 PM

    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.

  • by russfink on 10/1/23, 2:53 PM

  • by Alifatisk on 10/1/23, 2:03 PM

    What is Microsofts vision with Bing? It looks like it is slowly transitioning from a search engine to something else.

  • by callalex on 10/1/23, 7:07 PM

    Can it generate QR links to malware downloads?

    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bing-chat-res...

  • by trebligdivad on 10/1/23, 5:11 PM

    Perhaps more AI on the wait time, '5 min wait'...from about an hour now.

  • by crawsome on 10/1/23, 2:14 PM

    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.

  • by dangero on 10/1/23, 1:50 PM

    How is Bing getting this before full rollout to all GPTPlus users?

  • by bilsbie on 10/1/23, 1:29 PM

    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)

  • by bufferoverflow on 10/2/23, 2:44 AM

    It's not so good at different painter styles. I get roughly the same results.

    Midjourney is quite good at that.

  • by willsmith72 on 10/1/23, 4:46 PM

    Is there an easy way to fix broken text? I thought dalle 3 was supposed to be better with that

  • by GaggiX on 10/1/23, 1:23 PM

    Is it now only Dalle 3? I remember it was a mix Dalle 2 and 3 like two days ago.

  • by sylware on 10/1/23, 4:01 PM

    I tried the prompt but nothing happened. Joining is mandatory?

  • by bragr on 10/1/23, 4:14 PM

    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.

  • by gcau on 10/1/23, 2:24 PM

    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.

  • by mmanfrin on 10/1/23, 4:21 PM

    "Elon Musk" is a banned phrase.

  • by airstrike on 10/1/23, 1:41 PM

    inside Bing? hard pass.

  • by emptysongglass on 10/1/23, 2:22 PM

    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.