Playing with Bing’s image generator I found Dalle-2 to be my favorite version. The images I started generating in early August had personality! I particularly liked the mix of realism and quirky ai oddness. Bing has moved on to Dalle-3, which I find to be too over the top. Every image generated is completely covered in stuff from top to bottom like it’s trying too hard and there is no nuance to these images. See the difference between the photos below using the same prompt, Dalle-2 first, then Dalle-3. Dalle-2 is no longer available for free unfortunately. I wish it was, I miss it!

Images generated with bing.ai / Dalle-2

Image generated with bing.ai / Dalle-3

ai image generation: a journey

I became intrigued with ai image generation as a way to quickly iterate ideas and concepts. This was one of my first “successful” generations from stable diffusion 2.1. At this point I’ve generated many images from a number of image generators. I’ve used the free versions, and no images I have generated have been sourced from other artists. Though there is controversy surrounding it, to me, ai is a useful and powerful new tool for artists, just as the computer was when it became available. This blog was created to share a glimpse of my ai project journey. The work I create influences the ai images I generate and vice versa in an ongoing dialogue.