Protests erupt outside of DALL-E offices after pricing implementation...
We knew this day would come... DALL-E 2 is officially switching to a paid credits system.
We are breaking our “weekly-only” update rule to inform our subscribers that OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 is switching to a credits system. Starting immediately.
Every DALL·E user will receive 50 free credits during their first month of use and 15 free credits every subsequent month. Each credit can be used for one original DALL·E prompt generation — returning four images — or an edit or variation prompt, which returns three images. [source]
You can purchase credits for $15 per 115 credits (min). For many users, this means that the previous 50 image-prompts-per-day “free” tier now costs almost $7.5. Monthly, that is ~$195.
An even bigger change comes in the form of commercial rights.
Starting today, users get full usage rights to commercialize the images they create with DALL·E, including the right to reprint, sell, and merchandise. This includes images they generated during the research preview. Users have told us that they are planning to use DALL·E images for commercial projects, like illustrations for children’s books, art for newsletters, concept art and characters for games, moodboards for design consulting, and storyboards for movies. [source]
From OpenAI’s Sam Altman:
Many Dalle2 users are unhappy with this change…
So disappointed. I still don't even have access yet...