Microsoft Rolls Back Its Bing Image Creator Model After Users Complain of Degraded Quality
(Wednesday January 08, 2025 @10:30PM (BeauHD)
from the what-gives dept.)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/01/08/2252248/microsoft-rolls-back-its-bing-image-creator-model-after-users-complain-of-degraded-quality
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Microsoft [1]temporarily rolled back its Bing Image Creator upgrade from OpenAI's DALL-E 3 PR16 to the previous PR13 version after users reported degraded image quality, including cartoonish and "lifeless" results. TechCrunch reports:
> Ahead of the holidays, Microsoft said it was upgrading the AI model behind Bing Image Creator, the AI-powered image editing tool built into the company's Bing search engine. Microsoft promised that the new model -- the latest version of OpenAI's DALL-E 3 model, code-named PR16 -- would allow users to create images "twice as fast as before" with "higher quality." But it didn't deliver. Complaints quickly flooded X and Reddit.
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> "The DALL-E we used to love is gone forever," [2]said one Redditor. "I'm using ChatGPT now because Bing has become useless for me," [3]wrote another. The blowback was such that Microsoft said it'll restore the previous model to Bing Image Creator until it can address the issues. "We've been able to [reproduce] some of the issues reported, and plan to revert to [DALL-E 3] PR13 until we can fix them," Jordi Ribas, head of search at Microsoft, [4]said in a post on X Tuesday evening. "The deployment process is very slow unfortunately. It started over a week ago and will take 2-3 more weeks to get to 100%."
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/08/microsoft-rolls-back-its-bing-image-creator-model-after-users-complain-of-degraded-quality/
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/bing/comments/1hkdcbd/comment/m3f738u/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/bing/comments/1hlfdbz/comment/m3t72co/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
[4] https://x.com/JordiRib1/status/1876877658421944610
> Ahead of the holidays, Microsoft said it was upgrading the AI model behind Bing Image Creator, the AI-powered image editing tool built into the company's Bing search engine. Microsoft promised that the new model -- the latest version of OpenAI's DALL-E 3 model, code-named PR16 -- would allow users to create images "twice as fast as before" with "higher quality." But it didn't deliver. Complaints quickly flooded X and Reddit.
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> "The DALL-E we used to love is gone forever," [2]said one Redditor. "I'm using ChatGPT now because Bing has become useless for me," [3]wrote another. The blowback was such that Microsoft said it'll restore the previous model to Bing Image Creator until it can address the issues. "We've been able to [reproduce] some of the issues reported, and plan to revert to [DALL-E 3] PR13 until we can fix them," Jordi Ribas, head of search at Microsoft, [4]said in a post on X Tuesday evening. "The deployment process is very slow unfortunately. It started over a week ago and will take 2-3 more weeks to get to 100%."
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/08/microsoft-rolls-back-its-bing-image-creator-model-after-users-complain-of-degraded-quality/
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/bing/comments/1hkdcbd/comment/m3f738u/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/bing/comments/1hlfdbz/comment/m3t72co/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
[4] https://x.com/JordiRib1/status/1876877658421944610
Once again, no testing (Score:2)
by quonset ( 4839537 )
Just like their updates for Windows, it is clear Microsoft does no testing before pushing software out to the masses. Even a cursory attempt at creating images would have shown these issues. Instead, in an effort to save a few bucks, they let the end user be the tester. They'd rather look foolish and incompetent than have to explain how they didn't make their quarterly numbers because they spent money on testing their software.
Re: (Score:2)
by gweihir ( 88907 )
Yep. Their stuff is getting slowly more and more crappy. The next large IT incident will be caused by sheer Microsoft greed and incompetence.
Two to three weeks for deployment? (Score:1)
by innocent_white_lamb ( 151825 )
How can it take two to three weeks (more) to deploy the downgrade? Have they interconnected their application servers using 300bps modems or something?
Typical user complaint: (Score:2)
> all the dicks and boobs are pixelated!
"degraded quality" indeed. ;)