But can Paint Cocreator bring the tool into the 21st century?
Paint. As more and more mainstream names integrate controversial text-to-image AI art generation, Microsoft is planning to launch Paint Cocreator.,' which has been around since Windows 1.0. But we have doubts as to whether it will offer serious competition for theand Stable Diffusion, text-to-image AI art generation has rapidly entered the mainstream.
But perhaps nothing quite symbolises the arrival of mainstream ubiquity like the incorporation of generative AI into the old-school digital art tool Microsoft Paint. We presumed that such a move might be coming. After all, Microsoft is an investor in DALL-E creator OpenAI and it has already added a DALL-E 2-powered AI-image generator to its search engine Bing. But in theMicrosoft says it is currently testing a preview of the tool, which again will be powered by DALL-E.
Microsoft Paint has been around since 1985 and is often mocked for its rather basic tools. For a long time, it saw very little in the way of updates, and there were even rumours that Microsoft was going towas one of the first AI art generators to appear based on a diffusion model, it's been overtaken in quality and reliability by other options.
It's worth noting, however, that inclusion in Paint doesn't mean that AI image generation will become entirely free. While Paint is included in Windows as standard, it appears that the use of Paint Cocreator will require credits. In the preview, users receive 50 credits for free – enough for 50 generations. Presumably, Microsoft is considering a similar model to that of DALL-E, through which users get a limited number of free credits and have to pay if they run out.
Microsoft says Paint Cocreator should be available to all Windows 11 users in a few weeks. For the moment, it is available for Microsoft Insiders, and there is a waiting list to get a preview in the US, the UK, France, Australia, Canada, Italy and Germany. To learn how to use text-to-image tools, see our roundup ofDaily design news, reviews, how-tos and more, as picked by the editors.Joe is a regular freelance journalist and editor at Creative Bloq.
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