The beautiful magical enchanted golden Dall-e Mini is underrated

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The beautiful magical enchanted golden Dall-e Mini is underrated

post by p.b. · 2022-06-13T07:58:50.107Z · LW · GW · 0 comments

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[Showcasing some of the pictures that my daughter and I created with the open source generative model Dalle-Mini. No deeper insights, just an appreciation how well it works in some cases.]

I have been aware of a small open source Dall-e version for some time now. My initial check left me with the impression that it was way worse than Dall-e or Dall-e 2 and not really worth engaging with.

However, recently I started to implore Dall-e Mini together with my little daughter who is less critical of machines that can create any picture she proposes. Originally we ended every prompt with " - a children's book illustration".

We quickly got better at prompting and realized that there were some things Dall-e Mini couldn't do very well, like faces and animals and complex scenes, but also others where it wasn't as far behind of the SOTA-models as you'd reasonably expect from the model size. (Above a ship sailing through the clouds with a full moon, a castle in the clouds and a magical door in an enchanted forest.)

We switched to " - a beautiful fantasy illustration" to often get just that. These prompts all start with a version of "A beautiful magical enchanted golden ... ".

We created swords ...