Interesting. Considering this is now a paid product, is modifying user input covered by their ToS? If I was spending a lot of money on it I'd be rather annoyed my input was being silently polluted.
I'm interested in using Dall-E commercially, but I think some competitor offering sampling with raw input will have a better chance at my wallet.
I don't understand the relevance of the black box's scrutability - I just want to play with the black box. I am interested in increasing my understanding of the black box, not of a trust-me-it's-great-our-intern-steve-made-it black box derivative.
These kinds of modifications are obviously different. At least the mathematical transformations are attempting at least some level of fidelity to user input, these ones aren't (e.g. someone mentioned they're sometimes getting androgynous results and speculates the added terms are conflicting with the ones they provided in their input). Not all black boxes are equivalent.
And the best of all - it does have a meme community around it, and you can always donate if you feel it adds value to your life
I tried the first whimsical, benign thing I could think of: "indiana jones eating spaghetti." The results are clearly recognizable as that. But they are also a kaleidoscope of body horror; a Indiana Jones monster melted into Cthulu forms inhaling plates that are slightly not spaghetti.