Super excited about this. A tool that's comparable or even outperforms DALL-E 2, but open to the public, open source, and without the insane content restrictions or draconian banning policies.
From the repo:
"To prevent misuse and harm, we currently provide access to the checkpoints only for academic research purposes upon request. This is an experiment in safe and community-driven publication of a capable and general text-to-image model. We are working on a public release with a more permissive license that also incorporates ethical considerations."