DALL-E 3: The Cartoonist

DALL-E 3 can create single-panel cartoons with surprising ease. It even does speech bubbles with text. Try it yourself and let your imagination flow.

Happy Thursday, you rapscallions!

The tip from my last 10X AI post was about accessing a free preview of DALL-E 3 through the Bing Image Creator.

Since then, I’ve used the Bing version of DALL-E 3¹ quite a bit to figure out how it compares to what’s currently out there.

My tentative conclusion: For photographic images, Midjourney still has a very slight edge.

Here are a few comparisons:

Fashion photo of a woman in a red dress

Midjourney (left) vs. DALL-E 3 (right)

Street photo of an old man sitting on a bench

Midjourney (left) vs. DALL-E 3 (right)

Wildlife photo of giraffes eating leaves

Midjourney (left) vs. DALL-E 3 (right)

Now, DALL-E 3 images are really good. Especially the old man.

Yet they do sometimes end up having a certain plasticky, photoshopped vibe. (View the woman’s portrait in full resolution and you’ll see what I mean.)

But I discovered an unexpected area where DALL-E 3 truly shines: Single-panel cartoons. On this front, it beats both Midjourney and Stable Diffusion by miles.

Here’s what I mean.