AI Art Program DALL-E 2 No Longer Has a Waitlist, Sign-Up System Crashes
If you’ve been eager to try out DALL-E 2, an AI-powered program that can generate art from any text you type, there’s good news: The waitlist has finally been lifted.
On Wednesday, OpenAI, the research lab behind the AI program, announced(Opens in a new window) it was finally removing the waitlist for DALL-E 2 over five months after debuting the technology.
But in some bad news, the sign-up system for DALL-E 2 is currently going through an outage, an indication that OpenAI’s website for the program is dealing with a flood of new users. We tried to create an account for DALL-E 2 several times, but have so far met only an error page. Other users on Twitter have reported(Opens in a new window) the same.
DALL-E 2 has been grabbing headlines for its ability to create professional-looking, imaginative art based on whatever you type into the program. The technology is so powerful it can generate images through a variety of art styles in seconds or minutes, when it’d take a professional human artist hours, days, or weeks to create a similar image. In addition, OpenAI has been letting users generate a limited number of images through the program for free.
Back in July, OpenAI reported it had given 100,000 users early access to try DALL-E 2. Now the research lab says over 1.5 million users are using the program to create more than 2 million images a day.
Removing the waitlist means the public can expect even more AI-generated art to circulate over the internet. In addition to DALL-E 2, similar AI-art creating programs such as Midjourney and StableDiffusion can also generate images from a mere line of text. Recently, one user even tapped Midjourney to create a sci-fi looking image, which went on to win a digital art
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