u/MINIVV

Since MAI, unlike DALL·E, takes prompts largely as they are without adding much of its own improvisation, creating truly unique results requires more ideas.

Recently, I had a thought: why not make the AI work as a constant co-author for art projects? Instead of coming up with scenes, choosing the right wording and keeping track of all the limitations manually every time, I created a personal Gem bot with its own role and behaviour.

So, how does this approach work?

1. A consistent visual identity: The bot has a clear foundation describing the visual style, character appearance and key clothing elements. At the same time, the wardrobe and smaller details can change with each new prompt, while keeping the character recognisable across completely different settings.
2. Interactive art direction: You simply exchange a few lines with the bot, such as “Let’s do something dark in a rainy city” or “Create an abandoned temple”. It then develops the composition, adds atmospheric details and produces a ready-to-use prompt.
3. Automatic adaptation to the generator: The instructions include strict technical requirements, from a precise character limit to avoiding unnecessary “junk” tags. The bot produces clean descriptions without all the usual fluff.
4. Convenient bilingual format: Each response includes an adapted English prompt ready to paste into the image generator, followed by a version in your native language, making it easy to quickly review the concept and details of the shot.
5. Complete flexibility: The system is not static. The bot can easily be reconfigured at any time for completely different tasks.

In the end, it became more than just a text generator — it is a proper creative partner with its own character, helping generate new ideas while saving a huge amount of time.

Why is 3:2 always the default? 1:1 is much better. The height of a 3:2 image is 832px, whereas for 1:1 it’s 1024px. It stands to reason that 1:1 is the better option in the long run.

DALL-E used to have its own 4:3 aspect ratio, but the height there was the same as for 1:1 – 1024px.

Having used MAI 2.5 Flash for a few days, I can draw some conclusions. The model is ideal for my purposes. I’ve found some prompt tips to help me achieve the style of image I want. Most importantly, each result always contains four images. With DALL-E, it was usually two or three, and even then some had issues with the arms or legs. If you use DALL-E’s prompts without making any adjustments, the results will look rather unattractive. MAI is a different model and requires a different approach.

Back when DALL-E was still available, I would sometimes accidentally run prompts on MAI, and the results were rather mediocre. But now that I’ve adapted this prompt for MAI, the results have become quite interesting.

Perhaps Image Creator could store images as PNG, like Playground does?

For images with this level of detail, a 500 KB JPG seems unnecessarily large. If the images were stored as PNG, the quality could remain as intended by the model, without additional quality loss from simply converting them to JPG on Bing's side.

For comparison, a PNG image from Playground is around 1.5 MB on average. However, it can then be converted to JPG with very little noticeable loss in quality, resulting in a file of around 200 KB that still looks cleaner than the current 500 KB JPG.

Of course, the JPG could also be compressed to 200 KB, but at that level of compression, the PSNR would be catastrophically low and the image quality would suffer significantly.

Today, DALL·E 3 was taken offline completely. It has been replaced by the MAI-Image-2e model. There are only minor differences compared to Flash. Unless the character limit per query is increased in future, there’s nothing more to be done here.

Flash is a very good model. I can achieve results that are better than DALLE’s. But there’s no limit on the number of requests in Playground, which allows me to get the results I need.

480 characters isn’t enough for Flash.

Now, when you scroll with the mouse wheel, the images for one result are displayed first, and then the page moves on to the next result. Previously, the page would jump straight from one result to the next.

I haven't used Copilot for about a year. Has it switched to the MAI-Image-2.5 image generation model?

Is Copilot now synchronized with Image Creator like it was in 2024, sharing the same limits? Or does it still have separate limits like it did with GPT-4o?

Copilot is basically only hope for MAI-Image-2.5 because of its virtually unlimited prompt length. Back in 2024, Copilot could generate images from prompts that exceeded the Bing Image Creator limit by two times or even more.

• MAI-Image-2.5-Flash
• DALL·E 3

GPT-4o has been removed. DALLE3 is still available for the time being. MAI-Image-2.5 will become the main model for Image Creator.