DALL-E

[Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many]

This is old technology of openai's that preceded e.g. the russian
image generator. The linked code demonstrates encoders and decoders
that preserve most of the content of an image while compressing it
down to a set of numbers representing its meaning that can be used to
train models to convert between images and other modes. The
language-to-image data does not at first glance appear to be at all
included, although I could be wrong.

Here it is as a colab gist that can be run in a browser. I just added
code at the top to clone and link the model:
https://colab.research.google.com/gist/xloem/0290832de95d97abfed242acb2e398e6/usage.ipynb

DALL-E was a precursor to the public open source and then closed
russian image generation models I randomly posted some time ago.

DALL-E 2 is presently in waitlist private beta, which is news. You can
sign up at https://openai.com/dall-e-2/ which links to
https://labs.openai.com/waitlist .

If you want to play with image generation now, there are a bunch of
bots on discord channels, and one site is
https://replicate.com/pixray/text2image , another one is
https://huggingface.co/spaces/flax-community/dalle-mini .

I'm afraid I'm not up-to-speed on what the latest free, open-source,
community solution to text2image is. I haven't been watching it
recently.

On chat venues, you can see people playing with image generation bots
nonstop for like days and days, just generating images. It's one of
the most common pretrained transformer model bots. Some of these
people are addicted, others paid. I've experienced a little addiction
myself.

It's still somewhat hard to find something that will make just what
you want without training a model, though.