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My god it is so frustrating that I can't seem to get open ai access any time I have an idea for a project using dall e, gpt, for whatever reason, they won't approve my account.

I have to sit here and watch everyone else play with the fun "open" ai tools... company needs a name change if they're going to keep this up.

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You could try using Midjourney: https://discord.com/invite/midjourney

Never heard of that. So I looked it up and it seems a service completely based on discord? Both for the community and support (I presume) as well as accessing the service itself? There doesn't even seem to be any HTTP API. Weird :)

Yeah, it's a neat idea but it's extremely frustrating to use. A really really basic web frontend would make it so much more usable.

On the upside (for MidJourney), you're seeing a HUGE stream (they are hitting the 1 mil Discord members ceiling) of generated pictures and that kinda grows your appetite and you want to also try more and more prompts..

I think it is still in sort of a testing/early access phase. Discord only access is essentially a way of funneling everybody who wants to try it into their captured marketing venue without having to have one of those "give us your email" placeholder pages (also has a bonus "social" aspect where you're seeing what many of the other people who are using it are creating). The final product will presumably be more tailored and web-driven.

It's also an interesting way of balancing what I assume are high operational costs on the server-end by pawning off some of the hosting of assets onto Discord.

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They just scaled up by giving access to an additional 1mil users. Be patient… it’s not like it’s free or trivial to run something like this.

My significant other who had entered the queue several months ago as nothing more than "developer" got in last week. Don't give up! There's always Craiyon to scratch the itch in the meanwhile. You can start to play around with ways to write prompts, etc.

Afaik they are opening it up to a much wider audience in the recent weeks. I also got it just 2 days ago, and applied the same way as your SO, only providing "developer" and nothing else.

That makes me think of they actually target developers somehow. I also got in couple days ago providing just email and being soft developer.

I know at least one artist and one relatively popular youtuber (with over million subs) who applied to a waiting list much earlier than me and are still waiting.

If you look on the public Discord servers for DALLE/AI you will find active servers that take requests. They seem pretty active too and had all the services available.

Indeed, it is infuriating and I don’t know what the hold up is.

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