OpenAI also filters and rewrites prompts for images generated by standard API calls. DALL-E images from the API are as censored as ones made by asking ChatGPT, which you're correct is even more locked down than current state Bing Image Creator.Yes. DALL-E costs money to use, so really only companies like Microsoft and ByteDance can afford to offer free access to the public. You can use it through a paid ChatGPT subscription, but I've heard that interface is similarly locked down, with the chatbot filtering everything that goes between you and DALL-E.
As far as I know, the only way to get unfiltered DALL-E at this point would be to make your own app that talks to it via API, and pay for each generation yourself. I imagine even going this route, you might risk losing your account for violating OpenAI's terms. I don't know how closely they monitor it (maybe not so closely, if Cici was mass producing porn for over a month).
Bing and Cici (and its related Coze AI platform) are exceptions in that OpenAI allows them to make direct DALL-E API calls without them being rewritten. We can assume this was with assurance from their creators (Microsoft and ByteDance) to implement their own robust prompt and image filters.
It's unclear if there are other apps out there which OpenAI granted the same exception.
However given that, to date, Bing and Cici have been the only apps that people have managed to make porn using DALL-E with. And given how huge the owners of those apps are (literally a couple of the world's biggest tech companies), it doesn't seem like an exception OpenAI grants loosely.