You Can Now Generate AI Images Directly in the Google Search Bar

Google announced Thursday that users who have opted-in for its Search Generative Experience (SGE) will be able to create AI images directly from the standard Search bar. From a report: SGE is Google's vision for our web searching future. Rather than picking websites from a returned list, the system will synthesize a (reasonably) coherent response to the user's natural language prompt using the same data that the list's links led to. Thursday's updates are a natural expansion of that experience, simply returning generated images (using the company's Imagen text-to-picture AI) instead of generated text. Users type in a description of what they're looking for (a Capybara cooking breakfast, in Google's example) and, within moments, the engine will create four alternatives to pick from and refine further. Users will also be able to export their generated images to Drive or share them via email.

Really?

[Finallyjoined!!!]

Umm why?

What real world use does this fulfil? I'm stumped.

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[OrangeTide]

showcasing a novelty to engage users? I don't think AI images can be copyrighted and of course giving shit away for free is a big tip that it's a marketing activity.

Any recommended sites?

[nuckfuts]

I've seen some pretty impressive AI images that were generated from a text description. I'd like to give this a try. What are some good sites to use for this?

Re:Any recommended sites?

[oumuamua]

Here you can try DALLE, Stability.ai and Midjourney all side by side: https://www.genolve.com/ [genolve.com]

Great!

[oldgraybeard]

I always generate my new images in the Google search bar.
Sure looks like someone trying to find a purpose for something they think is cool.

There goes google search utility

[DigitalSorceress]

If it wasn't already giving garbage full of ads already - I just can't see this working well - with LLMs "hallucinating" so frequently, now even if you could wade through the ads, the results it returns .. could be entirely nonexistent sites /content created out of thin air...

OK so probably not but honestly, I want an AI-Free option thanks - I already set up an searxng instance on a Raspberry PI in my house - but not maybe I'll just remove google from the engines I am pulling from ...

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[DigitalSorceress]

Oh sorry I realized I was responding to the part about using AI to construct search results - not the title which was about images..

Images direct from prompt? um ok so long as I get to say "I'm searching for existing images" vs "I am ok with you generating something with AI"

But also I guess for search results for sites - if they start using Large Language Models to build search results I fear there are going to be more issues like that law office that filed a brief which mentioned entirely fabricated cases

Only if you register

[Tablizer]

Bing does more or less the same thing, but it only works if you register (login).

Elephant on a pogo stick

[istartedi]

I'm not seeing this. Is it because I'm not using Chrome? So anyway, there's lots of free AI image generators. I wonder if Google's is much better. Elephant on a pogo stick was my test, and they failed hard. Many competent human artists could do this. AI initially produced a carved elephant. I tried making the image vertical, and saying "elephant using a pogo stick" and I got an elephant with a trunk 2X longer than normal, above another elephant and some random bits that looked like pogo-stick parts near the trunk. Then I tried again and got an elephant standing on top of another elephant, but both their tusks looked a bit like sawed-off metal tubes. I think that was where it was trying to get the pogo-stick in.

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[bartle]

I tried Bing Image Creator. It's an elephant on a stick [bing.com] anyways.

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[istartedi]

That's actually impressive compared to what I got. The essential insanity is there. It just needs a better stick.

Also, it's not failing at obvious things, like missing that I asked for just one elephant.

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[thegarbz]

I'm not seeing this. Is it because I'm not using Chrome?

Probably because you haven't followed the instructions. Just because the capability is there doesn't mean it's enabled for you automagically, that's not what the article was about. You have logged in, signed up for Google Labs, and enabled SGE right?

Everything is blocked

[Pinky's Brain]

Turns out trolls are much better at finding ways to get it to spit out offensive and sexual content than "AI" can recognize them, to the point of driving the content generators to paranoiah. Blocks for everyone for seemingly random requests ... except the trolls who will find something else offensive to get out of it regardless.

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[thegarbz]

Who is trolling? You're assuming that people out there aren't legitimately trying to masturbate to a picture of a fox style furry in a nazi uniform. Not everyone's a troll. Some people are legitimately weird.

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[mjwx]

Who is trolling? You're assuming that people out there aren't legitimately trying to masturbate to a picture of a fox style furry in a nazi uniform. Not everyone's a troll. Some people are legitimately weird.

Max Mosely, is that you?

Let me save you some time ..

[thygate]

"Currently, Search Labs is available to a limited number of people in the US, India, and Japan. It’s only available in English, Hindi, and Japanese."

Slashdot readers...

[LordHighExecutioner]

...can now generate images of Natalie Portman covered with hot grits looking at a Beowulf cluster together with the man of goatse.cx!