It's easier to compete with free (most paid products do) if most of the people interested in AI generated art have been paying for their service for months rath

It's easier to compete with free (most paid products do) if most of the people interested in AI generated art have been paying for their service for months rather than browsing for alternatives. Especially since their supposed advantage is better prompt understanding rather than image quality; easy to dismiss StableDiffusion if your first impressions of it are "doesn't understand me like DALL-E" rather than "wow, this is magic" The "waitlist" model might work when the product isn't ready for prime time or the exclusivity is a part of the pitch, but it's greatly overrated in other respects. I got a "The Wait Is Over" email to tell me I'm off the waitlist and able to use a not-exactly-new stock trading app this week as the UK economy crashed. Yeah, thanks, but no thanks...