If you want to try your hand at the art of artificial intelligence – ethics aside – you have no shortage of tools to choose from. From DALL-E OpenAI to Bing Image Creator to Stable Diffusion, you have access to AI graphics whether you want to pay or not. So it might not be that electrifying to hear about it other tech company is getting into the AI image generator game, but hey, this train isn’t slowing down anytime soon: Meta is the latest to do so.
How to operate the novel AI Meta image generator
The meta has triggered free AI image generator on Wednesday, after introducing AI image generation features on Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp. When you launch Meta’s AI image generator website, you’re greeted by a series of AI images the company has created itself: a dog sitting in the ocean; astronaut cat (catstronaut, if you will); tiger in a stylish suit. The website includes a text box where you can describe the image you want Meta AI to generate, but if you want to see how the creation will be realized, you’ll need to log in to your Meta account. If you don’t have one (a Facebook account alone is not enough), Meta will be cheerful to facilitate you set one up. Whether you consider this service worth following Meta’s privacy practices is entirely up to you.
Once you’re in, the same offer applies as with any other image generator: enter prompt and press Generateand let the AI get to work. It’s pretty quick: Meta AI will spit out five different options in a matter of seconds. Maybe it’s even too quick: In my tests, the images created by the bot weren’t necessarily impressive. Most AI images have a sort of “uncanny valley” feel to them, but many of Meta’s creations look like bad photoshops.
First, I tried asking Meta AI to generate an image of “drinking a Cherry Coke at a movie theater underwater.” While the first result did a good job of following the prompt, the second result really blew me away: It seems obvious that the bot took an image of a person drinking a soda from the side of the lid and crudely merged it with an image of a soda with a straw in a completely different place.
The straw is there, ma’am.
Source: Jake Peterson
It also has Really challenging with keyboards. All the laptops I ask him for look like they would melt in a fire, at least looking at the keys. Take a look at this photo of “stressed Christmas tree working in a cafe on a MacBook Pro.” To Meta’s credit, I appreciate the poorly decorated, stretched wires representing the weight of the tree, but look at that keyboard! No wonder this tree can’t do any work.
Source: Jake Peterson
“The penniless quality of these images in Photoshop may have something to do with the training set: The meta used public photos of Facebook and Instagram users train this artificial intelligence, up from 1.1 billion pictures according to some reports. If you have public photos on any of these accounts, there’s a good chance that the AI has learned to create “art” from them.
Meta at least places a watermark on these images in an attempt to explain that they were generated using artificial intelligence. Unfortunately, this watermark is clearly apparent and can be easily cropped or edited. AI images will only become more recognizable in the wild when companies start introducing unseen watermarks. Although many If basic to recognize because they are there garbage.
