I can’t help but feel that I’m missing out on doing all kinds of get-there-first projects made DALL-E. I know it’s not productive to focus on that but it’s a big barrier to getting excited about it.
There's no API and using their internal API gets you banned, so you're not missing out on any get-rich-from-VCs-quick-by-wrapping-OpenAI-in-a-different-shell opportunities like there were with GPT3 yet.
It’s a cool thing that creates cool things. How does “maybe something else was their first” effect that at all?
DALL-E had a million things that had to be there first before it could do its magic. How does that fact take away from the excitement of the new realm of capability we have access to today?
Because only a certain few folks have access to DALL-E 2. I haven't got the invite and every day the ideas I was going to run with are already being done by others. Sure you can still do it, but it's not the same as a frontier where you can get the high, success, cash and fame out of a lot of easy ideas by being the first to do them. Eventually it's just a tool and you find a harder and more obscure niche to fill with it, despite how magical it is or how it makes your life/work potentially easier.
