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The "Secret Sauce" Behind DALL-E 3: How Is It So Good At Following Instructions?

I share my key takeaways from OpenAI's "Improving Image Generation with Better Captions" research paper.

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Daniel Nest
Nov 02, 2023
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In a crowded text-to-image field, one thing makes DALL-E 3 stand out: It’s freakishly good at prompt adherence.

Go ahead and ask Midjourney for a “watercolor painting of a giraffe, pig, and hedgehog dancing in a meadow.”

I dare you!

Too scared? Here, I did it for you:

Creepy animal hybrids created by the following prompt: "“watercolor painting of a giraffe, pig, and hedgehog dancing in a meadow" in Midjourney
“We should not be!”

Yup, that’s straight-up nightmare fuel.

DALL-E 3, on the other hand, kills it:

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