DALL-E 3's image generation quality no longer the same

These days DALL-E 3 on ChatGPT has been giving me results that are of lower quality than before. I’ve noticed increasing amount of smudges and artifacts, and some results looked more like bad Photoshop job. This has been going on for 2 months now and they have been completely silent about it.

Strangely, when I use DALL-E 3 through other sites (such as Copilot Designer and Anakin.ai) the quality comes out great and is the same as before the incident.

I’ve created comparison images to show you what I mean. Same prompt, I checked.



I even contacted the OpenAI support about this.

My guess is that they reduced the number of steps to reduce cost.

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