DALL-E API Now Released To Public So Developers Can Add It To Apps
Image via OpenAI
Previously the reason for users’ FOMO, DALL-E 2—arguably the most familiar name in the remarkable world of art-generating artificial intelligence—will soon be a tap away on your smartphone. As part of its public beta, OpenAI, the creator of the text-to-image technology, has released its API, allowing app builders to have dibs on its revolutionary tools.
Developers can sign up for an OpenAI API account, and once they get access, they’ll be able to incorporate DALL-E’s beta framework into apps, websites, and everything in between.
With the API built into their apps, developers will give users access to the DALL-E search engine. A query prompts OpenAI’s algorithm to create a relevant image via its own ecosystem before sending the results back to the third-party app.
There’s a fee for every picture churned out, though. The highest-res images, at 1024 x 1024, will cost US$0.02 a pop. Meanwhile, each 512 x 512 image is chargeable at US$0.018, and 256 x 256 versions are priced at US$0.016.
Microsoft, which is one of OpenAI’s big funders, has incorporated DALL-E 2 into a new designer software called Image Creator. Shutterstock, on the other hand, is working with OpenAI to make “responsible” AI-created art available to subscribers.
As per TechCrunch, OpenAI has removed the need to watermark images with the DALL-E 2 signature in this update. Developers are, however, still encouraged to disclose when artworks are AI-generated.
As always, users will need to comply with OpenAI’s guidelines, which restrict uploads featuring people who may not have consented to their likenesses being used, as well as overtly sexual, violent, and other abusive content.
[via TechCrunch and Ars Technica, cover image via OpenAI]
