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.
Dall-E 2 isn’t publicly available, is it? I started using Craiyon because I couldn’t get access to Dall-E 2. Hang on, let me check again… ah yes, there’s a waitlist. Which I hadn’t bothered to join but have now. Wonder how long it will take?
I signed up for the waitlist and had access in like two days. You get fifty free credits, and then 15 free credits per month. If you want more, you have to buy more credits, which aren’t that terrible. GPT-3 access is costing me more than that.
* yes, my blogging experiment is costing me real money. AI isn’t free!