Microsoft brought back the old AI image generator Bing Image Creator because the new one worked worse

Microsoft has decided to roll back an update to the AI ​​image generator Bing Image Creator. This comes after users of the service have been actively complaining for several weeks about a decrease in the quality of its work, which arose after the update of the large language model DALL-E 3 on December 18. Microsoft declined to comment on the reasons for the decision to roll back the update.

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Today, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of search and artificial intelligence, Jordi Ribas, published a post on social network X in which he said that the developers were able to reproduce “some of the problems found.” He also added that the decision was made to return to using the older version of the DALL-E model.

In December, Ribas announced the rollout of an update to the DALL-E model that powers the Bing Image Creator. Almost immediately after this, complaints from users of the service appeared on the Internet, who wrote that the AI ​​generator began to follow text prompts less accurately when creating images. At that time, Ribas said that the performance of the updated product “should be slightly better on average” than before.

User complaints began to appear not only on Microsoft support forums, but also on other platforms, including Reddit and the OpenAI forum. Obviously, Microsoft eventually had to admit there was a problem and roll back the update to return Bing Image Creator to its previous state. It is not yet known when the software giant may update the DALL-E language model again.