Artificial intelligence is helping artists create images and the technology is increasingly available to users.

Microsoft said it would soon bring AI-powered art tools to its Bing search engine, Edge web browser and other programs. The AI will be part of the company's new Microsoft Designer program. The advanced DALL-E 2 algorithm will power the art software.

“The biggest benefit of AI-generated art is that it helps democratize creativity, empowering anyone with the power to generate visual art,” Alon David, the vice president of product for the popular Facetune app, which uses AI to manipulate images, told Lifewire in an email interview. “It provides tools that allow anyone to create images that are creative or inspiring, without having to spend years mastering the tools and techniques that professional artists use.”

Companies like OpenAI and Meta have recently released tools that can generate an image based on given text, Rishabh Misra, a machine learning engineer at Twitter, told Lifewire in an email. Such tools are trained to learn the similarity between an image and text from image-caption pairs that are publicly available on the web.