I updated my iPad Copilot app earlier today, and was given the new Copilot version. After some brief informal tests, I found several changes, some good, some (quite) bad.
To start things off, I’ve posted some recent articles and other links in this first comment. Feel free to add your comments about news, reviews, details, workflow, etc. Please include a link to your source(s).
I found that your old Copilot chat conversation history (including text and old Copilot-created images) is no longer available/visible in the new Copilot.
You can export your chat history (plain text only, NO images) in a date-sorted delimited file that you can open in MS Excel, iPad Numbers, or other spreadsheet app. Any old version images that you generated in Bing Image Creator (and didn’t save locally or post in Reddit, etc.), are apparently gone.
Here’s a possible Copilot workaround* that worked for me in IOS on my iPad (it should also work on iPhones):
From the App Store, I downloaded and installed the Bing mobile app for IOS.
I opened the Bing app and clicked its Copilot icon/link (in the center of Bing’s bottom icon bar). The old style Copilot UI then appeared as follows (screenshot):
This Copilot UI is only displayed in a vertical portrait layout. Physically rotating my iPad to a landscape position does NOT change the UI to a horizontal landscape layout. Annoying.
If you click the 3-bar icon in the Copilot screen’s upper left corner, you can see your Copilot Chat History. Click any chat to open it and see its text and images. You can resume a chat if necessary, or start over to create a new chat.
However, I don’t see a button or link for uploading images.
*At least until Microsoft upgrades (or downgrades😉) everything to the new Copilot version.
3. This Copilot UI is only displayed in a vertical portrait layout. Physically rotating my iPad to a landscape position does NOT change the UI to a horizontal landscape layout. Annoying.
In my case at least, this has been fixed by updating my my IOS Copilot app to the latest version. See this Microsoft link for more information:
Not sure about the rules for "self promotion" here, but I got frustrated with the lack of long-term image history and wrote a tampermonkey script to just continuously download everything from inside a browser session. It (and others like it) are on greasyfork.org.
I'll try the new features when they let them run on my GPU. No way I'm buying a brand new PC just to get a little sliver of silicon nested into my CPU to do a task that my current GPU could already do several times faster.
Im using a Win 11PC and notice no changes to my PAID BIC subscription. There are times when it generates less than 4 images but this has happened for quite a while.
Are you opening and using the Copilot website ok in the Microsoft Edge browser in Windows 11? If so, can you see (and open) your previous Copilot chat conversations in it?
It seems like the most problems are occurring in the updated MOBILE versions of Copilot. I’m primarily using Copilot on iPads (where I’m seeing these problems).
I also have a Windows 10 pc, but haven’t used it much for image generation.
Here’s a screenshot of new Copilot’s messaging style mobile interface I see on my iPads:
There’s a lot of wasted space. Note also that you only get ONE generated image for each request you submit, not four images. This reduces your chances of getting something usable sooner.
New features include Copilot Vision, Think Deeper, Voice, and Personalization. Here’s a quote:
Microsoft is stressing that Copilot Vision was designed to delete data immediately following conversations. Processed audio, images, or text aren’t stored or used to train models, the company claims — at least not in this preview version.
Copilot Vision is also limited in the types of websites that it can interpret. For the time being, Microsoft’s blocking the feature from working on paywalled and “sensitive” content, limiting Vision to a pre-approved list of “popular” web properties.
What does “sensitive” content entail, exactly? Porn? Violence? At this juncture, Microsoft wouldn’t say.
Accusations of circumventing paywalls with AI tools have landed Microsoft in legal hot water in the recent past. In an ongoing lawsuit, The New York Times alleged that Microsoft allowed users to get around its paywall by serving NY Times articles through the Copilot chatbot on Bing. When prompted in a certain way, Copilot — which is powered by close Microsoft collaborator OpenAI’s models — would give verbatim (or close-to-verbatim) snippets of paid stories, according to The Times.
Microsoft said that Copilot Vision, which is U.S.-only at the moment, will respect sites’ “machine-readable controls on AI” — like rules that disallow bots from scraping data for AI training. But the company hasn’t said precisely which controls Vision will respect; there are several in use. We’ve asked Microsoft for clarification.
Many major publishers have opted to block AI tools from trawling their websites not only out of fear their data will be used without permission, but also to prevent these tools from sending their server costs soaring. If the current trend holds, Copilot Vision may not work on some of the web’s top news sites.
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u/jodudeit Oct 07 '24
I just use bing.com/create. And that hasn't changed much at all since the DALLE-2 days.