OpenAI Will Remove Its Waitlist for DALL-E, Giving Anyone Immediate Access (washingtonpost.com) 30
An anonymous reader shares a report:Since the research lab OpenAI debuted the latest version of DALL-E in April, the AI has dazzled the public, attracting digital artists, graphic designers, early adopters, and anyone in search of online distraction. The ability to create original, sometimes accurate, and occasionally inspired images from any spur-of-the-moment phrase, like a conversational Photoshop, has startled even jaded internet users with how quickly AI has progressed. Five months later, 1.5 million users are generating 2 million images a day. On Wednesday, OpenAI said it will remove its waitlist for DALL-E, giving anyone immediate access.
The introduction of DALL-E has triggered an explosion of text-to-image generators. Google and Meta quickly revealed that they had each been developing similar systems, but said their models weren't ready for the public. Rival start-ups soon went public, including Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, which created the image that sparked controversy in August when it won an art competition at the Colorado State Fair.
The introduction of DALL-E has triggered an explosion of text-to-image generators. Google and Meta quickly revealed that they had each been developing similar systems, but said their models weren't ready for the public. Rival start-ups soon went public, including Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, which created the image that sparked controversy in August when it won an art competition at the Colorado State Fair.
Too late! (Score:5, Insightful)
The cat's out of the bag.
While DALL-E does some things a bit better, Standard Diffusion is free, doesn't have ridiculous TOS limitations, won't ban you for what it thinks are "wrong" topics, doesn't take credits to use, and can be improved and adjusted by the community.
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*Stable Diffusion
Re:Too late! (Score:5, Informative)
Technically SD has license restrictions that prohibit "unsafe content" and has technical restrictions to try and police this, but they can readily be removed since they provide the model. And the model is the real game changer here: millions of programmers and other technically-inclined folks now have an AI capability they didn't just a few weeks ago. (Billions of people having a new artistic capability is merely the cherry on top.) It's a huge amount of potential that's been released.
Maybe OpenAI will take it one step further and live up to their name. Release the model!
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Thanks to slashdotting (Score:5, Informative)
...the waitlist is back, at least in practice.
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Even with their friggen pay-wall?
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I think you missed my point. Most readers don't go through archive sites
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In this case the article is viewable in my browser's private window, but often if you search for the article's lede heading you will often find another publication that has syndicated it.
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True, but I'd estimate only roughly 10% of the regular public uses one of the 2 techniques mentioned to get around paywalls. Otherwise, more sites would crack down on "leaks" to protect their revenue stream.
Hard Pass (Score:5, Interesting)
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SMS number required? (Score:3)
The last time I tried to sign up for OpenAI's tools a couple months ago, it required entering a phone number that supports Short Message Service (SMS) and then keying in a 6-digit code in a text message received at that number. A lot of people still have phones that don't do SMS, such as landlines, voice-only service over the mobile network branded as "wireless home phone", and VoIP. Does OpenAI still require SMS?
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Yeah, there's literally hundreds of octogenarians who won't be able to sign up for this.
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Have someone with a phone send you an SMS onto your landline. Or check with your landline provider to find out if they offer such a service for free but haven't activated it by default.
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Have someone with a phone send you an SMS onto your landline.
Tried today from my cell phone. No message was received.
Or check with your landline provider to find out if they offer such a service for free but haven't activated it by default.
Unlikely. From the product page for AT&T's current wireless home phone gateway device [att.com]: "This device can't be used with wireless messaging features, home security systems, or fax machines." The "About Your Device" page [att.com] agrees. I'd port the number to a cell phone in order to join this century, but then the house number wouldn't ring both upstairs and downstairs.
I guess I could instead upgrade my cell phone from a pay-as-you-go plan intended for occas
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Sounds like they gated that "standard feature" (in my eyes) behind an additional subscription wall.
In any case though, if you just need to receive an SMS, a pay-as-you-go contract for your cellphone should suffice, because receiving an SMS usually does not produce additional costs on your end that you can't control (abuse potential would be enormous given all the text message scams). But given the fact that you seeming
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Who the hell still has phones that don't support SMS?
That said, if I knew about alternatives like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, I would've never jumped through all the bullshit DALLE wants. So check those out.
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Who the hell still has phones that don't support SMS?
Anyone who uses a cordless phone with extension handsets that ring both upstairs and downstairs.
Re: SMS number required? (Score:1)
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I don't belive you (Score:5, Informative)
Because TFA is paywalled. Another Slashdot submission passed by useless editors who think the entire world subscribes to the WSJ.
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Tradition is fine and all, but not everyone here prides themselves on demonstrating ignorance to the world.
And with this... (Score:2)
M.C. Escher in da house! (Score:2)
Craiyon (Score:2)
This is supposed to be Dall-E Mini or whatever. [craiyon.com]
The results from my prompts haven't been very impressive (rabid weasel gloyhole, hydra pussy, etc) with a fair bit of repetition in how it seems to try to blend things (like by removing eyes and leaving gaping holes serial killer style). I now see it has movie ads on it which it didn't a couple weeks ago when I last used it. Still it's fun for a few tries if you haven't.
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The results from my prompts haven't been very impressive (rabid weasel gloyhole, hydra pussy, etc)
Yeah let me stop you right there. This isn't the AI's fault.