Holidays ahead, Microsoft said Behind it was the AI model upgrade Bing image creatorAI-powered image editing tool built on the company's Bing search engine. Microsoft has promised that the new model – the latest version of OpenAI From-e 3 The model, code-named “PR16” – will allow users to create images “twice as fast as before” with “higher quality”.
But it didn't deliver. Complaints quickly flooded X and Reddit.
“The DALL-E we loved is gone forever,” said A redditor. “I'm using ChatGPT now because Bing is useless for me,” wrote other
The blowback was such that Microsoft said it would restore the previous model to Bing Image Creator until it could fix the issues.
Bring back the old branches 3! Image quality is much better on older models. Just like this image. The image generated by the new model is bad 🙁 pic.twitter.com/BjIM8MS4ng
— ze rigrowl (@riegrowl) December 28, 2024
“We did it [reproduce] Some issues have been reported, and there are plans to revert [DALL-E 3] PR13 until we can fix them,” Jordi Ribas, Microsoft's head of search, said. said X in a post Tuesday evening. “Unfortunately the deployment process is very slow. It started a week ago and will take another 2-3 weeks to reach 100%.”
So what went wrong?
Comparing model output from anecdotal reports is difficult, especially when prompts are not standardized. But many users say the PR16 makes images look less realistic – and “lifeless”. Written for Mayank Parmar Windows latestNote that the PR16-generated images lacked detail and polish and looked oddly cartoonish.
I don't know who you think you're kidding. DALL-E is objectively worse than before after this “update” and you are outpacing other companies like Google. Picture quality now compares night and day to just a few months ago pic.twitter.com/EdSdk7aign
— external (@roccynoxy) December 19, 2024
This is not the first time that an image model that may have passed internal checks has not been well received by the public. In February, Google obliged pause After users complained about its AI chatbot Gemini's ability to create human images historical wrong.
Missteps illustrate how challenging it can be to measure model improvements in the real world According to Ribas, Microsoft's benchmarking found the PR16's quality to be “slightly better than average” compared to previous Bing Image Creator models.
Whatever internal metric the company uses, it seems clear that it doesn't align with most people's preferences.