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[–] [email protected] 84 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

To the surprise of absolutely nobody. There's no way it was going to be free and have no ads.

Edit: By the way, I don't see many people talking about it but DALL-E 3 was stealthily launched in the new Bing chat update and it's incredibly impressive. By far the best image generation AI in the market right now, and it probably won't be free for long.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do you think that the next step is product placement?

"Draw a rabbit wearing a top hat."

Produces picture of rabbit, wearing a top hat, sipping a coke.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That would be hilariously evil, but I doubt they'd go that far. They'll likely just put an ad in-between every prompt if they decide to go full greed.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Why not both? Why would their greed have a limit like that?

I could see this being a very interesting watermark - the free demo is sponsored by Coke, and all images will prominently feature the product. Upgrade to a paid/business/Enterprise account to get images without the product.

Given how many God-awful advertising patents have already been filed, I really can't see anyone turning down this opportunity. The only reason against it would be a technological limitation- making sure the product isn't featured alongside negative/toxic content. For instance, Hitler yelling at a bunch of homeless orphans (while holding a Coke)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It won't be free for long. MS already announced that it will be moving to a paid service shortly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wonder if they'll use the Hulu model of "pay us money and still see ads"...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Hard to say. IIRC DALL-E will be moving to paid when "Designer" comes out of Beta.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I jave had mixed results. I asked it to generate a user interface and it was absolute gibberish.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The best, but still pretty bad at understanding some very basic ideas.