Image Generation

GenAI is not all about text – image generation tools have made huge progress too, particularly with Midjourney, DALL-E and Stable Diffusion. As for the text generators, these have been trained on information scraped from the internet, and there is a lot of concern about the copyright of the training material. These work in a similar way to text generators – the user gives a prompt, and one or more variations of images are produced. Image generation capabilities are being incorporated into general AI services, so Microsoft Copilot, for example, can also generate images, using OpenAI’s DALL-E.

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Firefly is an Adobe product that generates images based on a text prompt. There are filters that allow you to quickly and intuitively modify the initial image (e.g., re-creating the same image in a different style). It is currently free to use, but requires you to create an account and to sign in. That is because each user gets a set number of free images each month.