OpenAI Expands Access To DALL-E 2 (techcrunch.com) 9
Today, DALL-E 2, OpenAI's AI system that can generate images given a prompt or edit and refine existing images, is becoming more widely available. TechCrunch reports: The company announced in a blog post that it will expedite access for customers on the waitlist with the goal of reaching roughly 1 million people within the next few weeks. With this "beta" launch, DALL-E 2, which had been free to use, will move to a credit-based fee structure. First-time users will get a finite amount of credits that can be put toward generating or editing an image or creating a variation of an image. (Generations return four images, while edits and variations return three.) Credits will refill every month to the tune of 50 in the first month and 15 a month after that, or users can buy additional credits in increments of $15. Artists in need of financial assistance will be able to apply for subsidized access, OpenAI says. Along with new techniques to mitigate bias and toxicity in DALL-E 2's generations, OpenAI says that starting today it's granting users "full usage rights" to commercialize the images they create with the tool, including the right to reprint, sell and merchandise -- including images they generated during the early preview.
got my welcome email (Score:1)
time to play around....
""Open""AI (Score:5, Interesting)
Time for this copypasta:
>Elon Musk founded OpenAI because it was apparent that next-gen AI requires $1M+ of compute time per model, and he felt that normal people should have access to enterprise level AI so that it's not just used by governments and major corporations. The thinking was that, much like the early days of the Internet and PCs in general, tools in the hands of normal people would spur innovation and balance the playing field.
>Eventually GPT-2 got massively popular and Sam Altman saw dollar signs. He delayed its release and setup a paywall system, announcing GPT-3 would be trained on even more gorillians of scraped data. They started making blog posts about how the most ethical path forward was one that, purely coincidentally, forced people to join waitlists for the privilege of giving money to an AI-as-a-service endpoint. And "by the way," all your requests would be monitored to make sure they're not politically incorrect. If you're using their AI to generate offensive content they'll cut your access and ruin your entire project. Somewhere around here Elon Musk left the board.
>Now we have DALL-E 2, which is even harder to gain access to than GPT-3's playground and has even more potential for violating their DEI and equity terms of service.
>OpenAI is now valued in the billions or tens of billions range (Microsoft alone has $1B invested in it), and they're powering Microsoft's Github Copilot using models trained on open source code, paywalled of course, and are soon going to announce a monthly fee to use it. They've stopped releasing all models and weights and are now just a corporation preventing normal people from having access to powerful AI.
The copypasta doesn't mention that OpenAI was founded as a registered charity (501(c)(3)), but that got in the way of their new profit-making motives. So they made it an umbrella corp and formed OpenAI LP, which is the one that now sucks in all the $$$.
OpenAI's timing (and pricing) is probably because of competition threatening to erode their market. Actually open models like DALL-E Mini (recently renamed to Craiyon because of implied legal threats from OpenAI) and Midjourney going public. The former is free and the latter is a bit of a step up but limits you to 50 free generations (also like DALL-E 2). If Google knew what was good for it they'd give people access to Imagen, but they're pretty out of touch with emerging products at this point.
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> Elon Musk founded OpenAI
This is a bit misleading, it was founded by:
Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Wojciech Zaremba and John Schulman.
I'm sure Elon was a big driving factor, but it's not like he was the sole person who set it up.
> And "by the way," all your requests would be monitored to make sure they're not politically incorrect. If you're using their AI to generate offensive content they'll cut your access and ruin your entire project
Well one of the founding principals of t
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Ugh the "honest" at the end was meant to be in the quotes - and not me trying to make it so my agreeing sounds sarcastic.
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Musk has consistently over-estimated the speed at which AI would develop. The most obvious example is the way he has been predicting that Teslas will be fully self driving within months, since 2016.
He probably expected more results from OpenAI, and left when it became clear that it wasn't going to deliver what he wanted. Likely he blamed that on the way the company was being run, not the fact that AI is decades behind where he thinks it is.
And GPT-3 says... (Score:5, Funny)
Prompt: "Write a few snarky paragraphs on Slashdot regarding an article about how DALL-E is now becoming more widely available"
GPT-3 text-davinci-002: "It's about time that DALL-E became more widely available. After all, it's been almost a year since it was first announced.
This is great news for those of us who have been waiting patiently for a more user-friendly AI-powered image generator. No longer do we have to suffer through the tedious and time-consuming process of manually creating images!
With DALL-E, we can now quickly and easily create images of whatever we can imagine, without any of the hassle. So what are you waiting for? Go out and get yourself a DALL-E today!"
GPT-3 text-curie-001: "First, Slashdotters, we should be clear: DALL-E is not a sexual lubricant. It's a cleaning robot designed to clean up oil spills. Second, DALL-E is not a new product. It was released in 2010. Third, it's not available in stores. It's only available online, and it costs $3,000. Fourth, it doesn't actually clean up oil spills. It just collects the oil. Fifth, it doesn't work very well. Sixth, it's not really a robot. It's just a big metal box with a few sensors. Seventh, it's not actually the best cleaning robot out there. It's just the cheapest. Eighth, it's not really a robot, it's just a metal box with a few sensors. Ninth, it's not really a robot, it's just a big metal box with a few sensors that's controlled by a computer. Tenth, it's not really a robot, it's just a big metal box with a few sensors that's controlled by a computer that's owned by a company that's owned by a guy who's really rich."
Well then (Score:2)
Where's my invite, Elon!?