DALL-E 3 brings a leap in technology, but how does it stack up to MidJourney?
What’s Special About DALL-E 3?
DALL-E promises to stick much more exactly to the wording of your prompt.
We’ll be comparing DALL-E 3 and MidJourney using several prompts.
The same prompt will be given to each AI generator.
And here’s the DALL-E 3 image I thought was best.
Part of the main selling point for DALL-E 3 is that it uses ChatGPT (i.e.
GPT-4) to take your idea and do the “prompt engineering” part of the work for you.
So it will create much more detailed prompts to try and get better results.
MidJourney / Sydney Butler / How-To Geek
So, to make it fair, I fed the GPT-generated prompt into MidJourney and this is the result.
Now we have something much more comparable.
However, which one wins?
MidJourney / Sydney Butler / How-To Geek
That’s because it’s generating stuff that looks like letters, but aren’t really letters.
So T-shirts with text, or store signs won’t have any sensible text.
Here’s the prompt ChatGPT came up with:
Here’s DALL-E 3’s result.
DALL-E / Sydney Butler / How-To Geek
And here’s MidJourney’s result.
However, there’s still plenty of nonsensical text in the image.
And here are all four attempts by MidJourney.
MidJourney / Sydney Butler / How-To Geek
Again, MidJourney excels at artistic flair but completely fails to actually do what I asked in the prompt.
Here’s the same image, but I asked for a more surreal and dreamlike style from DALL-E 3.
DALL-E / Sydney Butler / How-To Geek
MidJourney / Sydney Butler / How-To Geek
DALL-E / Sydney Butler / How-To Geek
MidJourney / Sydney Butler / How-To Geek
