You Can Use Meta’s New AI Image Generator for Free
If you’re interested in trying your hand at artificial intelligence (ethics aside) , there’s no shortage of tools to choose from. From DALL-E OpenAI to Bing Image Creator and Stable Diffusion, you have access to AI whether you’re willing to pay or not. So it might not be that exciting to hear about yet another tech company getting into the AI-powered image generator game, but hey, this train isn’t going to slow down anytime soon: Meta is just the latest. who did it.
How to Use Meta’s New AI Image Generator
On Wednesday, Meta launched a free AI image generator , following the initial AI image generator features in Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp. When you launch AI image generator Meta’s website, you’re greeted with a series of AI images the company created itself: a dog sitting in the ocean; cat-astronaut (cat-astronaut, if you like); tiger in a stylish suit. The site has a text box that asks you to describe the image Meta AI will generate, but if you want to see the creation, you’ll need to be logged into your Meta account. If you don’t have one (a Facebook account isn’t enough), Meta is more than happy to help you create one. Whether you think this service is worth dealing with Meta’s privacy rules is entirely up to you.
Once you’re logged in, it’s the same as with any other image generator: enter a prompt, click Create, and let the AI get to work. It’s pretty fast: Meta AI will come up with five different options in a matter of seconds. It may even be too fast: in my testing, the images generated by the bot weren’t necessarily impressive. Most of the AI’s images have a sort of uncanny valley factor to them, but many of Meta’s creations appear to be poorly photoshopped.
First, I tried asking Meta AI to generate an image of “drinking cherry coke in a movie theater underwater.” While the first result did a good job on the clue, the second result really pissed me off: it seems clear that the bot extracted an image of a person drinking a soda from the side of the cap and crudely combined it with the image of a soda. with a straw in a completely different place.
He also has a very difficult time with the keyboard. All the laptops I ask them to generate look like they melted in a fire, at least when looking at the keys. Check out this image of a “stressed Christmas tree working on a MacBook Pro in a cafe.” To Meta’s credit, I appreciate the poorly designed, stretched wires that reflect the stress of the wood, but look at that keyboard! No wonder this tree can’t do any work.
The “poor Photoshop quality” of these images may have something to do with its training set: Meta used publicly available images from its Facebook and Instagram users to train this AI, with over 1.1 billion images by some accounts. If you have public images on any of these accounts, chances are the AI has learned to create “art” out of them.
At the very least, Meta watermarks these images in an attempt to make it clear that they were created using artificial intelligence. Unfortunately, this watermark is clearly visible and can be easily cropped or edited. It’s only when companies start implementing invisible watermarks that AI-generated images will become more easily recognizable in the wild. Although many of them are easily recognizable as they are trash .