• Verb.ai
    • Currently my favorite text generation tool, very fluid use, in early beta; supports slash commands while writing like /describe and /continue
  • PlaygroundAI.com
    • Up to 1K free Stable Diffusion images per day & paid plans
    • You could also try Mage for NSFW generations
    • Or try DreamStudio if for some reason you’d rather pay Stability.ai to use Stable Diffusion. (Playground’s UI is better, though they have some deal-breaker privacy problems they haven’t solved yet, imo)
  • TextSynth
    • Free text generation using several different open source models (e.g., GPT-J, GPT-NeoX, Fairseq). You input sample text and it tries to continue it. Experiment with “temperature” setting (higher numbers yield weirder results)
  • OpenAI
    • ChatGPT
      • Certainly still interesting, but heavily restricted in its abilities now to how it was when first released. I’m not sure it’s the right product direction as far as “safety” features for all users, even if the underlying model often yields some very good quality content.
    • Dall-E 2
      • I still love it because it gives a completely different look from Stable Diffusion’s model versions, and I feel its use of light and color is often more beautiful than SD. My favorite look usually includes in my prompt found photo expired film dramatic lighting
      • You can pay them directly through OpenAI (i.e., help pay back Microsoft), or buy credits through PlaygroundAI which accesses the Dall-E API. This has the benefit of being I think slightly cheaper per generation than paying OpenAI (which is weird, tbh), and no watermark, which otherwise OpenAI includes by default.
      • Mage tells me they are rolling out Dall-E support as well over the coming weeks. I will give them a try when they do, as there are a number of things about Playground I find cumbersome in their UI.
  • Character.ai
    • Create chat bots by entering a character description; the results are much more creative and fun than ChatGPT seems to be capable of. It’s much more willing to “play along.”
  • You.com/chat
    • Similar abilities to ChatGPT, possibly slightly lower quality output, but without all the refusals & disclaimers that ChatGPT seems to be leaning more and more into.

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