[mrjangles]

It really says a lot about what an amazing society we have created in that here we have some people making history by revolutionizing our understanding of something that was (at least in the past) considered absolutely fundamental and unique to the human condition...

...and one of the things that people find remarkable about it is that it isn't immediately and freely available to everyone on earth.

[throwaway48375]

To be fair they call themselves OpenAI. Expecting things to be a little more open isn't unreasonable. They are kinda setting themselves up to disappoint people with that name.

[PoignardAzur]

Yeah, but I really wish I could use the thing right now. I DM roleplaying games, and I'd love having the ability to just generate high-quality procedural artwork illustrating whatever my last game is.

I'm not too upset, though. The way the technology is progressing, it's a pretty short time span between "the bleeding edge researchers can do it" and "there's a phone app that can do it for free".