Anyone With a Google Account Can Try Google’s Latest AI Image Generator Right Now
Google’s newest AI image generation model, Imagen 3, is now generally available in the US, and all you need to try it out is a free Google account. As VentureBeat noted , the company quietly revealed its model this week, publishing its research in the paper on Tuesday . This comes two months after the company first announced the new model at Google I/O back in May .
In a post on Hugging Face , a machine learning platform, Google researchers said: “We are introducing Imagen 3, a latent diffusion model that generates high-quality images from text cues. We describe our assessments of quality and responsibility. Imagen 3 is preferred over other states.” current models (SOTA) at the time of assessment. In addition, we discuss security and presentation issues, as well as the techniques we used to minimize the potential harm of our models.”
Based on some initial amateur tests, the model appears to be quite durable. When asking for photorealistic images, the results are relatively high quality, with some decent levels of realism that can fool people at first glance. (I was particularly impressed by the quality of the images when I challenged the model to create the look of 35mm film.) Imagen 3 also highlights individual parts of the cue that affected the outcome, so you can adjust them if you don’t like the way the image came out.
However, Imagen 3’s offerings still show clear signs of AI-generated images . Some photos have too many fingers, faces are distorted, and the text doesn’t make sense. (Although the model was able to reproduce the Coca-Cola and Canon logos with trademark-infringing accuracy.)
Google isn’t the only tech company to release a new identity model this week. X recently released a new beta version of Grok, the company’s AI chatbot and with it an image generator built with seemingly very few limitations . Users (notably Lifehacker’s Michele Erhardt) have used Grok to create everything from Taylor Swift in a MAGA hat to Pikachu with an AK-47.
Image 3, on the other hand, shows obvious obstacles. When I try to suggest something controversial to Google’s image generator, it stops and politely directs me to the Imagen 3 FAQ to understand why my prompt isn’t appropriate. It also refuses to create copyrighted content, but can be tricked into creating it with the right hints. As noted above, I was able to create logos and was even able to get it to reproduce trademarked characters like Mario and Pikachu, even if I couldn’t get them to engage in gunplay .
How to try Imagen 3
Google’s new AI image generator is free to try for anyone in the US with a Google account. To do this, go to ImageFX on Google’s AI Test Kitchen . Sign in to your Google account and get a hint.