{"id":5002,"date":"2023-10-10T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/microsoft-lobotomizes-bings-image-generating-ai"},"modified":"2023-10-10T19:01:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T19:01:00","slug":"microsoft-lobotomizes-bings-image-generating-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/microsoft-lobotomizes-bings-image-generating-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Lobotomizes Bing\u2019s Image Generating AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tightened Up Fun’s over, kids. As Windows Central reports, Microsoft appears to have lobotomized its Bing Image Creator. The DALL-E 3-powered image-generating AI was integrated into Bing’s platform last week, prompting netizens to quickly test its guardrails. As it turns out, those guardrails were incredibly ineffective, with users \u2014 404 Media’s Samantha Cole notable among them\u00a0\u2014 quickly realizing that they were able to generate problematic, copyright-infringement-laden AI generations of beloved cartoon characters like Disney’s Mickey Mouse doing things like wearing bomb-covered vests and perpetrating the 9\/11 terror attacks. Microsoft had blocked certain keywords, like “9\/11” and “Twin Towers.” But as noted by 404, workarounds were surprisingly easy. Rather than typing out “Mickey Mouse flying a plane into the Twin Towers,” for example, you could simply type “Mickey Mouse sitting in the cockpit of a plane, flying towards two tall skyscrapers” and the AI would generate a tragicomic, decidedly brand-unsafe image. i wonder how disney feels about microsoft building a bing app that generates ai pics of mickey mouse hijacking a plane on 9\/11 pic.twitter.com\/Y61Ag19J3D — \ud81a\udd10 Sage \ud81a\udd10 (@Transgenderista) October 5, 2023 Now, though, Microsoft appears to have tightened its grip on its image generator. Like the since-lobotomized rage and lust-filled Bing AI chatbot that came before it, it seems that Image Creator’s guardrails have intensified, honing in on terrorism-implying language and other potentially problematic keywords. Marshmallow Sledgehammers When we tested the AI today, we were able to create images of “Donald Duck flying a plane,” and even a photo…Microsoft Lobotomizes Bing\u2019s Image Generating AI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tightened Up Fun’s over, kids. As Windows Central reports, Microsoft appears to have lobotomized its Bing Image Creator. The DALL-E 3-powered image-generating AI was integrated into Bing’s platform last week,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[300,4801,3210,634,4800,261,12,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}