Microsoft’s Edge, Bing (ew) and a new Office app known as Microsoft Designer will all be receiving DALL-E 2 integration. Microsoft announced the new app and DALL-E 2 integration at yesterday’s Surface event. DALL-E 2, if you haven’t already heard, is OpenAI’s AI-powered text-to-photo generator. Throw in a prompt and it will try its best to spit out an image that matches the text.
Let’s put AI in everything, what could go wrong?
The newly announced Designer app started as a feature on PowerPoint. It suggests design ideas to help get the creative juices flowing. That won’t be changing when it becomes its own 365 app, which Microsoft plans to make free, with premium features locked behind a paywall. Users can type in a prompt, such as “Pope Francis and Pete Davidson having an affair in secret” and DALL-E will do its best to replicate it.
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Even if you wanted to access Designer today, you can’t. You can join the waitlist for the free web-based app, which Microsoft will use to gather community feedback before the app’s official launch.
Becoming an Edge Lord
Microsoft also said it would be integrating Designer into its Edge browser where it will be called Image Creator. The point here is to bring users “AI-powered design suggestions to visually enhance social media posts and other visual content without having to leave your browser window.” Bing will also receive Image Creator integration soon, working in the same way as Edge’s Image Creator.
Not much is known yet about when and where Image Creator will roll out first. Microsoft is wary of the potential — who are we kidding — sure-fire misuse of Image Creator, hence the slow initial rollout.
At first, Image Creator will only be available in select countries, allowing Microsoft to gather information before the full rollout. We’re not sure which countries Microsoft deem worthy enough to use its image generator. We can only hope South Africa is on the list.
