Spongebob’s house created by DALL-E
OpenAI has made DALL-E, its artificial intelligence (AI) image generator, available as a beta version and has also revealed the tool’s pricing structure.
The company announced that the AI system, which can create lifelike images and art from a text prompt, will soon be available to everyone.
Millions of people had signed up to use the early access version, and Open AI, the company that makes DALL-E, will offer its latest version to one million people on the waiting list in the coming weeks.
Users you contact will receive 50 free images to use within the first month and then 15 each month thereafter. Each credit represents four photos based on one original prompt, or three if the user suggests an edit or variation prompt. If the freebies aren’t enough to satisfy operator AI requirements, then a 115-credit pack is available to purchase for $15. OpenAI says artists who need financial help will be able to apply for subsidized access.
Portrait created by photographer Mathieu Stern with DALL-E
The beta version also allows people to use the images they generate for commercial purposes. For example, printing the images on shirts or selling goods containing the AI images will be allowed. However, OpenAI will reject image uploads that include realistic faces and explicit content. The company is concerned that malicious actors could use its technology to create misinformation, deep fakes and other harmful purposes.
DALL-E 2, the successor to DALL-E, was announced in April and has already gathered 100,000 users. OpenAI says the wider access is made possible by new approaches to mitigating bias and toxicity in DALL-E 2 generations, as well as an evolution in the policy-driving images produced by the system.
DALL-E 2 was trained on a dataset filtered to remove images that contained obvious violent, sexual, or hateful content. However, this is not safe. Google recently said it would not release an AI generation model it developed, Imagen, due to risks of abuse. Meanwhile, Meta has limited access to Make-A-Scene, its art-focused image generation system, to “prominent AI artists.”
OpenAI emphasizes that the hosted DALL-E 2 includes other safeguards, including “automated and human monitoring systems” to prevent the model from remembering faces that appear frequently on the Internet. Still, the company admits it still has work to do.
“Expanding access is an important part of our responsible deployment of AI systems because it allows us to learn more about real-world usage and continue to innovate our safety systems,” OpenAI wrote in its blog post. “We continue to explore how AI systems like DALL-E can reflect biases in their training data and different ways we can deal with them.”
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