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Craiyon (DALL·E mini)

The free, open image generator that produced the wonky nine-image grids which flooded social media in mid-2022, months before the big models opened up.

By
Boris Dayma
Year
2022
Country
United States
Category
Websites & web apps
Also
Illustration & image
Purpose
Entertainment, Education
Degree of AI
Co-created
Tools
DALL·E mini

Where the human came in

Dayma trained the model in the open with a small community, kept it free, and put it on a single page anyone could use with no sign-up.

Why it is not slop

The project that let the public touch image generation first. Its ugliness was part of the charm, and it was never sold as more than it was.

Seed entry: written from public sources and awaiting editorial review.

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