[pavlov]

That’s fine, but it’s like asking: “Why would anyone want to have a personal website when you can just write stuff on Facebook and Twitter and it’s so much easier?”

Stable Diffusion is an open model that you can run locally on your own computer without anyone’s permission. Dall-E is a closed model that runs on OpenAI’s very expensive server farm, and they can change how it works and what it costs whenever they please.

Right now AI is in the Uber-style expansion phase where the service is practically given away to conquer market share. Once the hypergrowth is over, OpenAI will start raising their prices just like Uber did.