Looks like the pricing model is different. The linked article only mentions "50 credits" with no further details, but this page[1] says it's $15 for 115 credits. In comparison, Adobe's Firefly appears to be 25 credits per month for free or $4.99 for 100[2]. But I guess users are already paying a monthly subscription fee to use Adobe products, so maybe Paint comes out to be cheaper.
It would be such a win for consumers if corporations weren’t allowed to just make up some currency and hide the true cost behind some translation layer and instead had to advertise the actual cost in dollars up front.
I get that completely outlawing the idea of credits would remove the ability to dynamically change the cost of computing for new purchases while still retaining computing units for people who have already bought them, so maybe credits themselves as a concept could stick around. But using them in advertising copy should not be allowed without providing the calculated dollar equivalent right alongside of them
Sorry, but your reply is very misleading - you're linking the blog post of the release of the original DALL-E through OpenAI's own website (which was in 2022 - centuries ago by the current AI trends). The one integrated in Paint is DALL-E 3, and there's no separate pricing for it yet:
- It's available to most ChatGPT plus subscribers (very soon to be all of them), the subscription costs the same as it did before
- It's available for free in Bing Image Creator, with optional "boosts" that speed up generation (more can be redeemed with Microsoft Rewards)
- And now it's available in Paint as a part of their Windows Copilot update, for which they have not talked about pricing at all (Microsoft 365 Copilot has pricing, but it provides different services and is meant for companies)
I get that completely outlawing the idea of credits would remove the ability to dynamically change the cost of computing for new purchases while still retaining computing units for people who have already bought them, so maybe credits themselves as a concept could stick around. But using them in advertising copy should not be allowed without providing the calculated dollar equivalent right alongside of them