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OpenAI opens its doors to DALL-E text-to-image service

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Ironic that an ML lab with so many accelerators is such a slowpoke
OpenAI on Wednesday made DALL-E, its cloud service for generating images from text prompts, available to the public without any waitlist. But the crowd that had gathered outside its gate may have moved on.
The original DALL-E debuted in January 2021 and was superseded by DALL-E 2 this April. The latest release, which offers much improved text-to-image capabilities, allowed people to sign up to use the service but placed aspiring AI artists on a waitlist – one that didn’t move in the past five months for this Reg reporter. The newly public service is called DALL-E, although it’s still version 2 of the technology.
OpenAI justified the closed list by citing the need to be cautious. The org wanted to prevent users from generating violent, hateful, or pornographic imagery, and to prevent the creation of photorealistic images of public figures. And it created policies to that effect, because abuse and misinformation are genuine concerns with machine-learning image creation technology.
«To ensure responsible use and a great experience, we’ll be sending invites gradually over time,» OpenAI advised beta registrants in April via email. «We’ll let you know when we’re ready for you.»
While OpenAI was doling out access at 1,000 users per week (as of May), Midjourney – a rival AI-based text-to-image service – entered public beta in July. Midjourney’s Discord server, through which users interact with the service, reportedly reached about one million users by the end of July.
That was about the number of invitations extended by OpenAI at the time, following a transition to beta testing. Midjourney’s Discord server currently lists 2.

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