OpenAI removes the DALL-E waitlist, allowing anyone to sign up, and tests the API

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OpenAI today announced that the research lab is removing the waitlist for its DALL-E beta, allowing anyone to sign up, citing improved security systems and lessons learned from real-world use. Additionally, it is testing a DALL-E API with several customers and plans to release it more widely soon so developers and customers can use it to build applications on DALL-E.

The announcement comes amid a growing number of startups offering more accessible text-to-image AI generators, including Midjourney, which was released in open beta in mid-July, as well that Stability AI Diffusion's open-source solution Stable, which was released in August (its new CIO, Daniel Jeffries, wrote a new blog post today saying the company is "putting openness back into AI" ).

According to a recently published blog post, Open AI said that "responsibly scaling a system as powerful and complex as DALL E - while discovering all the creative ways it can be used and misused - required an iterative deployment approach".

OpenAI noted that there are currently over 1.5 million users creating over 2 million images per day with DALL-E, with approximately 100,000 users sharing their creations and comments in its Discord community.

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Artists, in particular, have provided significant input and feedback since the DALL-E 2 article was announced in April, the blog says, leading to features such as Outpainting being added in August, which allow users to continue an image beyond its original borders and create larger images of any size.

According to OpenAI, in recent months it has strengthened its filters to "reject attempts to generate sexual, violent and other content that violates our content policy, and to create new detection and response techniques to stop abuse".< /p>

When DALL-E 2 was released, it received rave reviews for its use of advanced deep learning techniques to generate and edit photorealistic images simply by understanding textual instructions. Suddenly there was a tsunami of shared images of teapots and avocado-shaped chairs, along with strong concerns about biased datasets that reinforced stereotypes about women and people of color. p>

But OpenAI argues that "lessons learned from deployment and improvements to our security systems make greater availability possible."

Tricky DALL-E Copyright Questions Remain

However, thorny questions regarding the ownership of DALL-E images remain: In July, when OpenAI announced that it would extend beta access to DALL-E 2, it also offered those users the rights to use to market the images they create with DALL-E. , including the right to reprint, sell and trade.

According to the OpenAI spokesperson, user feedback revealed that full usage rights are what creators want. OpenAI, however, retains ownership of the original image "primarily so that we can better enforce our content policy."

But creators, as well as lawyers, find ownership and copyright issues unclear.

Bradford Newman, who leads machine learning and...