Artificial Intelligence (AI): Images
Popular Image Generative AI
Microsoft Image Creator from Designer helps you generate images based on your words with AI.
Creator: Microsoft
Image Model: OpenAI's DALL·E 3
How to use it: Given a text prompt, the AI will generate a set of images matching that prompt. Prompts should be highly descriptive for best results. For example, "a close-up photo of an astronaut in a glowing suit made of plasma, as if the galaxy is inside of it, putting on their helmet, but you can't see their face because of the visor, realistic, film stock, bright colors"
Language and Availability: 100 languages, over 160 regions
Cost: Free but you have to create a Microsoft account to use it.
How do they address copyright: Image Creator adds a watermark in the bottom left corner of each created image. They also have implemented content credentials, provenance based on the C2PA standard, to help users to identify AI generated Images. They also allow living artists, celebrities, and organizations to make requests to limit the creation of images associated with their names and brands.
Example:
Prompt - "a realistic image of a hawk flying above a tree lined lake with the sun setting behind it"
Craiyon AI Art Generator was formerly known as DALL·E mini and is a no frills AI image generator.
Creator: Craiyon
Image Model: Craiyon
How to use it:
- Open Craiyon AI Art Generator
- Type your idea (unusual concepts are encouraged within this tool)
- Hit “DRAW” to generate your AI art!
- Edit your AI image text prompt. With millions of art styles and photorealistic designs you can add, there are endless changes. You can also select the negative words that you do not wish to see, i.e. adding "blue" will give results with less blue.
- Save or download your AI art.
Language and Availability: not provided
Cost: Free with ads, users get 9 free images at a time within a minute, Pro is available for unlimited art, fewer ads, and faster generation.
How do they address copyright: Users are allowed to use Ai created images for personal, academic or commercial use. They should credit craiyon.com for the images if they are a free subscriber. There is also a watermark in the bottom right of generated images.
Example:
Prompt - for a drawing style, "a realistic image of a fox wearing a scarf walking through a forest"
Canva offers the chance to use a variety of AI image generators, including Magic Media's Text to Image, OpenAI's DALL·E, or Imagen by Google Cloud.
Creator: Canva
Language Model: Varies based on AI tool used
How to use it: Enable the app of the AI tool of your choice, then provide a detailed text prompt. The AI will generate a set of images matching that prompt. The ability to control the style of image, realistic, abstract, photorealistic, etc., will vary based on the AI tool used.
Language and Availability: 104 languages, over 190 countries and territories
Cost: Free for a set number of uses dependent on AI tool being used
How do they address copyright and data concerns: Canva doesn’t train AI using your content without your permission. Canva’s AI privacy controls require you to opt in - not opt out - to share your private content with us to train AI.
Example:
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Magic Media Prompt - "cat riding a bicycle through an enchanted forest covered in snow in an abstract style" |
Imagen by Google Prompt: "Cincinnati skyline at night with fireworks overhead in the shape of a hippopotamus" |
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Benefits and Drawbacks of Generative AI
- Write text at various levels of complexity and meaningfulness on any topic.
- Provide a summary of a longer document (either by pasting the text into the AI tool or uploading a PDF or other file).
- Helps with brainstorming ideas and search terms for a topic.
- Create AI-generated art.
- Find answers to questions formed from a variety of sources from the tool's LLM.
- Creates unique text each time it is used.
- Hallucinations (can create text that sounds right, but is actually incorrect)
- Privacy concerns (it uses the data you enter to train the model, so it can be shared with others).
- May require you to set up a login and share personal information in order to use it.
- Biases in the materials used to train it can flow through into its responses.
- Different versions may have source or date limitations that make its answers incorrect or less useful.
- Given the variety of free and pro versions, there can be digital inequity in access to the same level of tool.