OpenAI is ready to sell DALL-E to its first million customers

You can get a DALL-E subscription for fifteen dollars, but it won't break the bank. That's fifteen dollars for over 500 images. Users get 50 free credits in their first month and 15 free credits a month after that. Power users could soon burn through that quota as users typically generate dozens of images at a time and keep only the best.

Openai has been working with early users to fix the tool. The first wave of users have produced a steady stream of striking images, from pictures that look like real photographers with eerie accuracy, to pictures that look like sneakers. The strengths and weaknesses of the tool have been explored. The product manager at Openai says that they have received a lot of feedback.

Openai has taken steps to control what images can be produced. People can't create images that show well known individuals. Early users flagged a serious problem that was addressed by Openai. In the version of DALL-E released in April, there were images of CEOs and firefighters who were all white, as well as teachers and nurses who were all white.

OpenAI announced a fix. When users ask DALL-E 2 to generate an image that includes a group of people, theai draws on a dataset of samples that Openai claims is more representative of global diversity Users were 12 times more likely to report that DALL-E 2's output included people of diverse background, according to Openai.