(San Francisco) The OpenAI start-up will open its artificial intelligence software DALL-E to a million people, so that they can create illustrations, simply from verbal indications, and then use them in books, brochures or on the internet, including for commercial purposes.
Posted at 8:39 p.m.
This computer program can generate images from carefully chosen words, such as “Baobab dressed as a businessman looking at the sky” or “Sea otter in the style of The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer”.
The software offers several original creations and the user can then refine his choice.
It was “trained” by machine learning, that is, by ingesting an astronomical database of images with descriptions.
“DALL-E, the artificial intelligence (AI) system that creates realistic images and art from natural language description, is now available in beta,” the start-up said in a statement. based in San Francisco.
She plans to invite a million people already on the waiting list over the next few weeks.
These users will have “from today the right to market the images they create with DALL-E, including the right to reprint and sell them”, specifies OpenAI, which was co-founded in 2015 by Elon Musk. The Tesla boss left the company in 2018.
They will initially have 50 free credits, each credit allowing them to formulate a request to the software, which responds with three or four images.
The company has configured the software with safeguards to prevent users from creating pornographic, violent or political content, or even deepfakes, these diverted images that depict real personalities in invented situations.
She also made sure that the machine didn’t reproduce certain human biases – that it didn’t only offer white men in their 50s in response to the description “CEO”.
DALL-E has already been tested by a few creators, including Austrian artist Stefan Kutzenberger, who wanted to show “what works by the painter Egon Schiele might have looked like” if he had not died at 28, after a recent release from OpenAI.
Karen X Cheng, a content creator, designed the first cover of the women’s magazine Cosmopolitan generated by an AI program in June.
“After many hours of trying hundreds of descriptions, I finally found the right one: ‘A low-angle wide-angle view of a female astronaut with an athletic female body stepping forward with a sure-footed gait’ her towards the camera on Mars in an infinite universe,’” she shared on Instagram.