Bing Image Creator users getting content warning for harmless text prompts

Bing Image Creator, powered by DALL-E 3 seems to be censoring harmless prompts like "a cat with a cowboy hat and boots" and showing a content violation message.

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Microsoft recently updated Bing Image Creator with DALL-E 3. (Express Photo)

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Microsoft recently updated the Bing Image Creator with OpenAI’s latest text-to-image generation model – DALL-E 3. The latest version of the image creator can create super-realistic images and can be used to generate movie posters, book covers, design logos and even make infographics.

However, Bing Image Creator came under fire after Yahoo recently ran a story on how the AI-powered tool was able to generate images of Mickey Mouse flying a plane with a gun in hand with 2 skyscrapers in the background and another one showing the Disney character wearing a suicide vest with bombs.

Since then, Microsoft seems to have reinforced content guardrails for Bing Image Creator. But many are now saying that even harmless prompts like “a cat with a cowboy hat and boots” are being flagged as inappropriate.

Several users report they are getting a content violation message saying ‘Your image generations are not displayed because we detected unsafe content in the images based on our content policy. Please try again with another prompt.’

But it looks like Microsoft might be aware of the situation. After a user on X (formerly) asked Microsoft Windows head Mikhail Parakhin about harmless word patterns triggering Bing Image Creator, Parakhin said the team is checking reports of overclocking.

Hmm. This is weird – checking

— Mikhail Parakhin (@MParakhin) October 8, 2023

According to a report by WindowsCentral, Bing Image Creator’s ‘surprise me’ button, which generates random images on its own also seems to be censoring its own images. It goes on to say that this was not a rare occurrence and that the chances of it happening are around 30 per cent.

Microsoft might still be fine-tuning the guardrails, but if the tech giant goes too far, it might limit Bing Image Creator’s usefulness.

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