r/bing

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.

The replacements on Bing definitely don't unfortunately..

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.

Was it for monetary reasons or something else? It was clearly the better model compared to what there is now

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.