Microsoft and Adobe Launch AI-Powered Art Generation Tools: “Create Images With Your Words”

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The art community hasn't been shy about letting the world know how much it despises AI, as it allows anyone, even those without a single creative bone in their body, to create passable artwork, but it appears that today's leading tech companies couldn't care less, with Microsoft and Adobe both launching AI-powered art generation tools today that allow users to create art just by typing in a descriptive sentence. Microsoft's tool, Bing Image Creator, will begin to roll out to Bing preview users on both desktop and mobile starting today, while Firefly, Adobe's family of creative generative AI models and tools for generating images and text effects, is now available in beta. Adobe Express, Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator will be the first Adobe apps to benefit from Firefly integration.

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I'm sure there's a good "Use your words" meme out there, but I don't know it off the top of my head.
 
How long, I wonder, till we do implants into the parts of our brains for Sight, Sound, Smell, Taste, and of course most importantly, touch.

Once 'Wired' (Provided Elron Musk can get past the ethics issue blocking him) till we can tell the computer the reality we wish to live in full of whatever magic, tech, steampunk, worlds we imagine.

How will I pull myself away from my perfect lovers, in my castle, in the middle of my Lothlórien-esqe, forest setting, to do my mundane job in the mundane world, to pay my mundane bills, and get back to my preferred reality.

Or maybe I'll just go to the 31st century in Star Trek - that also seems like a nice place to live - Perhaps check out Ni'Var or Andor?
 
If you are an artist who just wants to do art, this does not affect you. If you are selling commissions, then yes it does. But can that type of work for hire even be considered art? You literally draw something based on someone else's words just like the AI.

Tsing said:
as it allows anyone, even those without a single creative bone in their body, to create passable artwork
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Ai just spews out random garbage you still need an artistic sense to spot the actual good ones among all the garbage outcomes. While it is easy to make something that passes the 1 second sight test, the more you look at an AI image the more flaws you find in it.

So all AI does is open the gate to many people to do something, it doesn't mean they can actually make something good with it.
But sometimes it might not even be necessary. I mean I see images on deviantart get thousands of likes that I wouldn't even decorate toilet paper with. So the audience doesn't even realize what is good quality art and what isn't. This means as an artist you should be true to yourself and nobody else, do what you like, don't try to do what the audience likes. No AI can take that away from you. If AI threatens you you are not an artist, that is my 2 cents on the subject.

OK, I'm too tired and just rambling here so I should stop.
 
"Bing created man in his own words."
—AI translation of Genesis

Unfortunately for us, he was still in preview mode.
 
Zarathustra said:
Requires an account.

As long as I have to create an account, this means I will never use these things.
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OpenAI required an account to access its ChatGPT demo, and the account creation process also required a mobile phone number, or at least it did for me when I looked at it several weeks ago. I said screw that. The queries are computationally expensive, so I expected some measure of rate limiting and bot prevention, but my hoop jumping ends with the one-off disposable email address.

Bing's integration into the Windows OS is another opportunity for Microsoft to "encourage" users to create a Microsoft Account, which I expect will become a hard requirement in a future iteration of the OS.

When useful open-source AI tools become trivial to deploy and self-host on commodity hardware, I'll be interested. There's been some work in that direction, but I haven't kept tabs on any of the projects.
 
Do this... as an excercise. Try to find an engine to run/host your own AI engine to query. Be that for enterprise or home use. It's a Pain in the ***. As someone that wants to tinker and not expose my tinkering or my companies tinkering to the greater community I'm left scratching my *** wondering HOW do we do this?
 
Grimlakin said:
Do this... as an excercise. Try to find an engine to run/host your own AI engine to query. Be that for enterprise or home use. It's a Pain in the ***. As someone that wants to tinker and not expose my tinkering or my companies tinkering to the greater community I'm left scratching my *** wondering HOW do we do this?
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There are open source AI engines like ChatGPT -- that said, just the source is pretty much worthless until you train it, and that training is what takes months on data centers. Trying to do that at home would be ... harder than cryptomining.

Now, there are ways to export the training as well, and there are some open source projects that will include that - and that's the real "value" that ChatGPT brings - how and what they trained their model on that makes it do what it does. I suspect the open source provided training wasn't nearly as deep or worthy as what ChatGPT has done with it's Billions in funding.

github.com

GitHub - nichtdax/awesome-totally-open-chatgpt: A list of totally open alternatives to ChatGPT

A list of totally open alternatives to ChatGPT. Contribute to nichtdax/awesome-totally-open-chatgpt development by creating an account on GitHub.
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