TikTok now offers a very basic text-to-image AI generator directly in the app
by James Vincent from The Verge - All Posts on (#62H2D)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Text-to-image AI systems are booming in both ability and popularity right now, and what better proof than their appearance in the world's hottest app: TikTok.
The video platform recently added a new effect it calls AI greenscreen" that allows users to type in a text prompt that the software will then generate as an image. This image can then be used as the background to a video - potentially a very useful tool for creators.
The output of TikTok's system is pretty basic compared to that of state-of-the-art text-to-image models like Google's Imagen, OpenAI's DALL-E 2, or Midjourney's eponymous software. It creates only rather abstract and swirling images; a strength reflected in the dreamy nature of TikTok's suggested prompts like...