Microsoft's Rolling Out Edge's AI Image Generator To Everyone (theverge.com) 27
Microsoft is making its DALL-E-powered AI image generator "available on desktop for Edge users around the world." From a report: The company announced it'd be coming last month when it integrated the image generation tech into its Bing chatbot, but this move could make it available to a much wider audience. When it rolls out, the "Image Creator" will live in Edge's sidebar. Using it should be pretty simple; you type in what you want to see, and Bing will generate several images that match the prompt. Then, you can download the ones you like and use them however you need. In a Thursday blog post, Microsoft pitches the feature as a way to create "very specific" visuals when they're working on social media posts or slideshows and documents. While this has been possible in a variety of ways before -- you could use OpenAI's DALL-E, Microsoft's Bing image creator site, the built-in image generator in Bing Chat, or one of the many other image generators -- putting it right in Edge's sidebar makes it much easier to ask an AI to make you some pictures while you're doing something else on the web.
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Edge is Chrome.
Why would you put this into the browser? (Score:2)
Why would you put this into the browser? Is this just a glorified bookmark?
Re:Why would you put this into the browser? (Score:5, Informative)
MS only allows you to connect to the AI urls from Edge. Other browsers appear to be locked. However with the Bing Chat for All Browsers [mozilla.org] firefox extension (and probably there is one for chrome), you can access both Bing Chat and the Bing Image creator AI from firefox. Works fine.
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For Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webs... [google.com]
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Q: Why would they put this into the browser?
A: Ad $$$!
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Why would you put this into the browser?
Microsoft's entire business model for the last 25 years has been to try to force people to use their browser.
Now they're using carrot instead of stick.
does not generate certain things (Score:2)
Re:does not generate certain things (Score:5, Funny)
Is there any point in generating new ones? There's already billions and billions of those.
The CPU power is better off doing other things.
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"So Microsoft basicly brought porn to the edge browser."
Hardly, it gets a puritan attack when mentioning:
Naked
Nude
Unclothed,
Without clothes
Bare
Stripped
Undressed
In the buff
Au naturel
Starkers
Skyc
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And you can imagine, that no one ever thought about ways to bypass these pathetic key word filters. Nah, who would really want to do this anyway?
This is Microsoft 2023 for you: brings one of the most advanced AI engines (which they bought) to the general public, tries to keep it out of hand of "evil Firefox users" and, of course, tries to keep it nice and family friendly. And then they fail both tasks so miserably that it's painful to watch. SMH.
The internet is really, really great (Score:1)
Sidebar is the new toolbar (Score:5, Insightful)
Re: Sidebar is the new toolbar (Score:5, Funny)
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The toolbar itself wasn't a bad concept. We've simply found out what users actually wanted from the toolbar and integrated it into the browser itself. Heck most people actively went out and installed a toolbar of their choice for basic things like search.
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It seems fine to me now. I even get uBlock Origin on mobile, which is fantastic. What does making Firefox a real competitor mean to you? What is stopping you from using it now?
Meh (Score:3)
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For backup I use ungoogled-chromium, https://github.com/ungoogled-s... [github.com] a patchset that creates a drop-in replacement for chrome/chromium, simple interface, not trying to implement a new vision of the internet, and removing hardcoded google dependencies (phone-home).
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Software really needs to get away from “What’s new! In version 3.1415926.2”
I’ve been around a long time and the ROI reading this information is sooo fucking low but beyond that my chances of reading it are also extremely slim.
The most egregious are the ones that automatically update the software and then force you to look at it, no not at launch, that sucks, but post install. Like glad you woke up today here’s a fucking dialog box!
Edge (Score:1)
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Hmm I wonder if Bing Chat will tell us how to access Bing Chat and the Bing AI image generator from other browsers. Or if you'll have to resort to Google and search for "Bing Chat for All Browsers" to get extensions to make it work in Firefox, Chrome, etc.
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Actually this is what it said:
Competition (Score:2)
Is this a move that should worry competitors that provide such services for money?