It was around this time, in my “31 Days of GPT-3” project, that I got access to Dall-E 2 and started using both it and Craiyon in parallel to see which would better generate images for the articles.
I was – and still am – blown away by Dall-E 2’s results.
For Day 3, “Three Frow”, I wanted to get across the idea of a tactical strategy game that just took place on a basketball court, so I asked both Craiyon and Dall-E 2 to generate a basketball team, wearing armor, one of them is dressed like Gandalf, one of them is holding a glowing basketball, in a spotlight, surrounded by green mist.
Neither program really got the idea that I wanted someone dressed like a wizard out there, but Craiyon, at least, got the team in armor, even if it did opt to have one of them holding a really large butt *plum *for some reason. In the image up top, you see that Dall-E 2 is so committed to what photos of basketball players look like that it just couldn’t do much but give standard shots.
I did ask for painterly renderings, though. I love all the shots Dall-E 2 came up with. They just don’t match what I want.
Gotta respect the effort.
Whether you prefer Craiyon, Dall-E 2, Midjourney or any of the other many, many AI art generation programs, nobody can deny that art is being made available to people who never had access to it before.