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Dall·E 2 vs Dall·E 3 - Like night and day differences

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In September 2023, OpenAI announced a new text-to-image model, Dall·E 3. I first got the opportunity to try Dall·E 3 when my company gave access to ChatGPT Pro, which includes the Dall·E 3 model. I am pretty excited because the images generated are far better than Dall·E 2 that I've explored some time ago.

So today, I created a simple python program and incorporated OpenAI's Image Generation API to redo the prompt from the previous Dall·E 2 experiment. Note that the Dall·E 2 images shown below were generated in November 2022.

Below is the image comparison of Dall·E 2 and Dall·E 3 side-by-side. Sorry for the inconsistent image sizes.

1. A realistic image of a boss cat doing work in the office

Dall·E 2Dall·E 3
Boss Cat Dall e 2Boss Cat Dall·E 3
Totally unsatisfying, the picture is not realistic at all.The picture is much more realistic and nicely composed. Also, cute.

2. A digital art of a lighthouse with the Andromeda galaxy in the background

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Lighthouse Dall e 2Lighthouse dalle3
Good, just a bit cartoonishSatisfied. Nicely composed. But it looks like Earth has no atmosphere at all (The galaxy should look faded, but I assume maybe it uses a long focal length setting)

3. Realistic image of human civilization on Mars

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Mars dall e23040 dalle3
Ok good enoughBetter, have more life

4. A depiction of life in the year 3040

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3040 dalle2Dalle3 mars
Looks stressful, apocalypse-like scenario (maybe because this image was generated just after the spike of the Covid-19 era)Future-modern life like depicted in most of my primary school textbooks

5. Profile picture with a man and cat in a tech environment

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Human Cat Dall e2Dalle3 pfp
Good enough, but why is the cat sad thoughNot composed nicely. The cat looks more realistic than the human.

Bonus

Malaysia Programmer (Generated via ChatGPT using Dall·E model)

Scrensht ChatGPT

Malaysia Prayer time logo for mobile app

mpt chatgpt logo

Overall, I think Dall·E 3 is now able to generate results that are richer in context and eye-pleasing. For those who want to see the python script used to generate the images, please refer to the GitHub repository openai-dalle2 & openai-dall-e3.