With Microsoft Copilot, you can easily create AI-generated images. This offers several advantages, but also potential challenges that need to be overcome.
Creating images with Copilot: What you need to know
Images play a crucial role in our visual culture, and the demand for unique graphics is constantly growing. But what is behind the creation of images using AI technologies such as Copilot?
- Copilot is an AI-powered tool from Microsoft that offers, among other things, the ability to generate images based on text input.
- It uses advanced models such as DALL-E 3 and GPT-4o to create new, unique images from detailed descriptions.
- Important: There are different versions of Copilot. Image generation is part of Microsoft Copilot (formerly Bing Image Creator) and is not the same as GitHub Copilot, which is designed specifically for code generation.
- While Copilot can make many tasks easier, it remains important for humans to guide the creative process, as AI models do not always fully understand the context or intent of a project.
How do you create images with Copilot?
The technology behind Copilot does not analyze its own image data, but generates images directly from user input using trained AI models. These models have been trained on millions of image-text pairs to create appropriate images from text descriptions. Here’s how it works:
- Open Copilot (web, app, or in Microsoft 365 applications).
- Enter a text description: The more detailed, the better the result.
- Select style and format (optional): Various image styles and formats are available.
- Generate image: The AI creates several image suggestions.
- Select, save, or further edit the image.
- Note: The generated images are copyright-free and can be used for a variety of purposes. Images are usually stored for 30 days and then deleted.
Advantages of AI-generated images
Microsoft Copilot and AI-generated images offer many advantages. These include the following aspects:
- Time savings: AI takes over repetitive and time-consuming tasks, leaving more time for creative processes.
- Diversity: Copilot can generate a wide range of styles and motifs – from photorealistic to abstract.
- User-friendliness: Operation is intuitive and no prior technical knowledge is required.
- Integration: Copilot is integrated into many Microsoft applications.
Challenges in using Copilot
Where there are advantages, there are also challenges that need to be overcome.
- Quality: Not every AI-generated image automatically meets the desired requirements. It is advisable to critically review the suggestions and make further adjustments if necessary.
- Prompt engineering: The quality of the results depends heavily on the description. Precise, detailed prompts lead to better images.
- Copyright & Ethics: The generated images are generally copyright-free. However, no copyrighted materials may be uploaded as templates. Microsoft offers extended legal protection (“Copilot Copyright Commitment”) for paying business customers.
- Human control: Despite automation, humans remain responsible for the final selection and adjustment. AI does not always understand the full context or intent behind a project.
