As part of Azure Cognitive Services, Microsoft launched Azure AI in 2021. Through the platform, Azure AI provides enterprise-customized access to the OpenAI API for applications such as language translation and text autocomplete. In May this year, the company brought service expansion through fine-tuning. Now, Microsoft has introduced limited invitation access to DALL-E 2 for some Azure OpenAI services customers.
Example of podcast content generation based on Azure OpenAI/DALL-E service
Azure AI Customers can use DALL-E 2 to generate custom images using text descriptions, and like DALL-E 2 for average consumers, the drawing AI is able to repair and expand image areas and generate changes on existing images. Early adopters of
DALL-E 2 include brands like Mattel. Meanwhile, German media group RTL Deutschland is also considering combining streaming content metadata with DALL-E 2 to generate visual effects for scenes in podcast episodes and audiobooks.
However, to prevent technology from being abused, Microsoft followed up with Designer and Image Creator and deployed filters designed to intercept content policies for the Azure OpenAI platform.
The company also claims that its filtering model prevents DALL-E 2 from creating religious or celebrity images, as well as those that are easily used for content such as deception, adults, violence, gore, and more.
Mattel's DALL-E 2 Use Cases
A Microsoft spokesperson said in an email that Azure OpenAI only provides limited invitation-based access, giving it the opportunity to deeply customize protection measures with customers to prevent harmful and adverse consequences when put into actual production.
In addition to DALL-E 2, Microsoft has also brought ongoing comprehensive updates to Azure OpenAI services since its launch about a year ago, and now covers industries such as financial services, insurance and healthcare.
customers include Accenture , Evino, Autodesk , BMW Group, CarMax, EY and PwC . Common use cases include insights such as writing assistance, natural language, code generation and parsing data.
For example, PwC is using Azure OpenAI services to classify various news articles into topics such as environmental, social and governance to carry out benchmark assessments. And CarMax is using the service to generate new marketing content based on customer reviews.
