Microsoft Paint Is Getting an AI-Powered Image Generator

Microsoft Paint is getting a new image generator tool called Cocreator that can generate images based on text prompts and doodles. Engadget reports: During a demo at its Surface event, the company showed off how Cocreator combines your own drawings with text prompts to create an image. There's also a "creativity slider" that allows you to control how much you want AI to take over compared with your original art. As Microsoft pointed out, the combination of text prompts and your own brush strokes enables faster edits. It could also help provide a more precise rendering than what you'd be able to achieve with DALL-E or another text-to-image generator alone.

Thanks, I hate it.

[devious_malcontent]

I wonder if they are referring to the classic Microsoft paint or paint 3D, I also wonder if it'll work when the Internet goes out.

As for most A.I features that really just doesn't seem necessary, but we are now at that point where A.I needs to be shoved into everything.

I usually use paint as a dumping ground for screenshots and quick edits, I don't really spend a lot of time in there creating "pieces of art", the beauty with paint was in its simplicity. - I'm sure there will be alternative tools I can m

Conditional hate

[Baron_Yam]

If it runs locally, doesn't report to MS, and can do things like "remove the leftmost person from the picture", it'd be awesome.

If it runs on MS servers and turns out weird semi-nightmare fuel in response to prompts of "create a furry unicorn with fairy wings" I'd remove the exe from my computer.

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[Tablizer]

If [it] can do things like "remove the leftmost person from the picture", it'd be awesome.

"PaintBot, please remove Windows & Paint and replace it with Linux & Gimp."

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[Baron_Yam]

That's a rather weird take on MS Paint and AI.

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[christoban]

Yeah, I should have stuck it in my .sig.

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[Tablizer]

Because they are still steamin' pissed for being robbed of the West Bank via stupid excuses. Zionists in the gov't are delusional zealots.

Isr: "The beatings shall continue until morale improves!"

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[christoban]

Robbed? They were never promised control of the West Bank. The Oslo Accords were conditioned on a final agreement that addressed Israel's security concerns. So stop murdering Jewish civilians from the West Bank and perhaps you can have them.

But no state run by a terrorist organization is ever going to do that, is it?

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[Tablizer]

Israel belts them back to the dark ages and then acts surprised when they fight back using medieval tactics.

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[christoban]

Hamas is 'forced' to do any of the incredibly evil shit they do to Jews, any more than Nazi Germany was.

Israel treats the Palestinians incredibly well, especially considering their schools literally teach their children the same hatred as the Nazi Youth.

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[Tablizer]

Both sides have done big evil. None are going to win an angelic behavior contest.

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[christoban]

True, but there is no equivalence here.

For the record, you seem to be in camp #1:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sect... [tabletmag.com]

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[Tablizer]

There are stupid atheists, stupid Christians, stupid Jews, and stupid Muslims. The stupids are running Israel right now.

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[christoban]

Why is it your every post sounds like a slogan?

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[christoban]

If it turns out weird semi-nightmare fuel in response to prompts of "create a furry unicorn with fairy wings," I am definitely keeping it.

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[Morromist]

So this week we got AI windows search and AI MS paint. I wish there was a betting pool for where the limit of "AI shoving" will be in the next 4 years.

Maybe instead of deciding where to put our folders and files in windows file manager they could make an AI that does it for us.

Will there be AI controlled coffee machines? AI controlled dog training shock collars? Personalized ai dieticians and nutritionists? The probably already have that last one.

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[subie]

I still prefer Paint.net

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[arglebargle_xiv]

Yup. MS Paint is what you'd give a second-year CompSci student to write as an assignment. Bolting "AI" to it is like adding an nVidia HGX to the Flintmobile.

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[devious_malcontent]

Paint.net is my preferred image editor of choice! (Donate to the developers if you can) I use it for any real work that I do, but unless I leave It open, there is some advantage to MS paint, being a native Windows app it launches in under 0.5 of a second compare to Paint.net that takes up to 3 seconds on a good day, (on my main home system which is an i9/64 gigs of ram it can take up to 40 seconds to load but I'm certain that's more to do with the plugins I have installed, and I am too lazy to sit down and

This rite heeyar

[paiute]

We don’t need AI to make art. We need AI to write emails and clean the house and deliver the groceries so humans can make more art. -SJ Sindu

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[Mr. Dollar Ton]

Depends on who's "we". People who think they can make money by generating "art" will disagree with you strongly. So will the "general AI" when it comes about someday ;)

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[Anonymous Coward]

You are not working hard enough on your strangulation-masturbation. Keep going until you are not breathing. The plastic bag goes over your head.

-Mom

Re:This rite heeyar

[Tablizer]

Turns out grunt-work is too hard for AI, so it smokes ePot and paints instead. What else did you expect from bots invented by hippies?

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[christoban]

I don't consider this kind of stuff "art." It requires skill, but it has no soul. It's just copycat.

Most important question of all...

[Pollux]

Does it come with an off button?

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[Waffle Iron]

Does it come with an off button?

I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.

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[Tony Isaac]

Yeah, it's a little X in the top right corner of the window.

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[billybob2001]

Does it come with an off button?

Yes, but whatever you do, don't click it when the creativity slider is turned up - anything could happen.

Just like the launch of Bing

[Anonymous Coward]

I remember when Bing launched.
Microsoft was obscenely obsessed with forcing everyone to use it. They displayed background images of landscapes with clickable links to bring up image results in Bing. One day I was getting ready to present to a client, and I accidentally clicked one of those links. It was some mountain in Japan if I recall correctly. Next thing I know, Bing launches and shows a bunch of images. Three of them were pornographic images of a woman's...ahem..."mountains". Everyone stood there in stunned silence for a moment while I said "I fucking *HATE* Microsoft, and this is why I insist on presenting from my Linux laptop".

I never got any arguments from them again about using the "corporate" laptop. Today that company is about 78% Linux and 3% BSD.

Anyways, I'm sure it won't be too long before someone tries to make a stick figure drawing or an outline of a room to show where they want furniture to go and Paint will emit a dick. Give it time.

When will Minesweeper have an AI assistant?

[thesjaakspoiler]

Now that would improve my chances of beating the computer maybe.

Look how they massacred my boy

[mukundajohnson]

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mspaint could have killed photoshop

[nikkipolya]

If only Microsoft consistently invested the time and effort into mspaint, that it plans to invest now, it could have beaten Phtoshop by now.

Paint and notepad

[lordofshadows]

These tools are supposed to be minimalistic, if you want to shove AI into something put it into that paint 3D garbage you created and leave notepad and paint alone

classic microsoft

[nothinginparticular]

In the last 30 or so years they've left mspaint languishing with features about advanced as I can remember from my late 80s Atari ST paint packages. But now they have an AI agenda to push so it'll get pushed to everything and anything. I can only imagine that idea being the result of a middle management AI use case brainstorming session. Meanwhile great FOSS tools like GIMP actually get the job done for those who don't need/want the adobe suite.

Cocreator?

[dstrupl]

Is it just me who hears an indecent word at the very start of its name?