For several months, I used Bing Image Creator to design reference images for potential oil paintings. The way DALL-E2 resolved my prompts was mysterious and beautiful. The renderings were almost always visually cohesive, diverse, and full of surprises. Then sometime last week, I typed in one of the many variations of a prompt I had been using and got pattern-like image that looked nothing like what I had been getting for months.
When I discovered BIC back in May, I was hooked. From then until now, I made a couple thousand images, mostly landscapes that I hoped to pick from to paint. I was afraid that one day, there would be an upgrade, and Bing would become too sophisticated to render the beautifully awkward images it had been supplying me.
This reminded me of the movie “HER”, when the OS Joaquin Phoenix’s character was in love with was suddenly upgraded, becoming unable to relate to him and the thousands of others in love with their Operating Systems.
You can see from my examples using the same prompt, aesthetically, the DALL-E2 image is vastly superior to the DALL-E3 image. I too feel like BIC has been ruined by the update for me. As someone mentioned here, it would be nice to be able to toggle between versions as one does not perform better in all cases. Hopefully this gets sorted out.
Prompt:
organized, leafy jungle, cactus garden, blossoms, houseplants, abstract, negative space, contrast, mild multicolored, heavy shadows, cactus, 3-D, Henri Rousseau, Fernando Botero, Jean Metzinger, Georgia O’keeffe
