Users of the image generating artificial intelligence Dall-E 2 will be allowed to upload faces to the system for the first time, creators OpenAI have said, as competition in the sector heats up. The feature marks the latest relaxation of the company's rules around how its tool, which can generate high-quality images from a text prompt, can be used. When it first launched in a public beta, OpenAI banned users from generating any images with a realistic face. Later, those rules were relaxed to allow the generation of realistic faces, but not those of specific individuals. Now, users will be able to upload photos that depict real people – with consent – and use OpenAI's tools to generate new variations on the pictures.