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by aviditas 1458 days ago
Personally, I believe the underlying difference is that the parent company of DALL-E is a nonprofit with clear cost recoups for their api pricing and the access to DALL-E is currently free. CoPilot is from a for profit company which has been around enough for a lot of people to have strong opinions of. CoPilot was initially introduced as a product that would have a subscription or license cost. There are copyright and attribution differences and some similarities but from someone on the edge of the development realm my reaction was firmly because of the free/at cost transparency for OpenAI versus the clear 'this is a product to make money from'. I'm not saying that the latter is an inherently bad thing but it absolutely colors the way you feel about it.
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Yeah but Copilot is actually generally available. DALLE 2 is invite only.