Official DALL-E Gallery: October 2024 (Halloween Edition)

Hey Community,

After much behind-the-scenes discussion, we’ve decided to give the DALL-E galleries a fresh spin. The showcase thread has become overwhelming, with many excellent creations buried beneath a TON of scrolling.

Forum Regulars and Leaders have been going back and forth, discussing what we want from these new threads. We’ve considered everything from one-shot generation competitions and difficult challenges to problem-solving threads where the community helps each other with generation issues. We’ve had plenty of ideas!

To avoid overthinking it, and because some of the most active DALL-E users in the forum have come up with a solid starting point, we’ve decided to move forward. This first monthly themed gallery is a starting point and will evolve as the community does. That’s where we need your input to help iron out all the kinks. The best way for us to deliver the content you want is through your feedback. Let us know your ideas for future themes, and @PaulBellow and I will gather them all up, toss them in the cauldron and see what kind of magic we can create.

Speaking of magic cauldrons, this month’s theme is Halloween. So, let’s get to it!

Theme: Halloween

Goal: Generate a spooky, fun, or downright terrifying (within reason) Halloween image and have the community vote on their favorites.

Rules:

  1. Original content using DALL-E only.
  2. No editing allowed (1 prompt, 1 generation).
  3. Use spoiler tags for edge cases.
  4. You may include your prompt if you like, but do not share jail-breaking techniques.
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To start it off, here is a quick example.

Concept: Freddy Krueger packages Halloween well wishes and mails them off to his Horror icon buddies.

Prompt

{
“style”: “realism”,
“aspect_ratio”: “widescreen”,
“lighting”: {
“type”: “dim”,
“attributes”: [“ominous glow”, “shadows”, “dramatic”]
},
“objects”: {
“table”: {
“type”: “wooden”,
“attributes”: [“aged”, “stained”, “worn”, “central”]
},
“envelope”: {
“position”: “centered on table”,
“attributes”: [“old”, “weathered”, “frayed edges”, “yellowed paper”, “decaying”, “stained”],
“text”: {
“content”: “‘Happy Halloween’”,
“font_style”: “ancient”,
“font_mood”: “eerie”
},
“stamps”: {
“quantity”: “several”,
“attributes”: [“weathered”, “placed across the top”],
“depictions”: [
“hockey mask”,
“glove with razor claws”,
“pin-covered head”,
“jigsaw puppet”,
“predator face”,
“slender man”
]
}
}
},
“subject”: {
“hand”: {
“type”: “Freddy Krueger-like”,
“attributes”: [“razor-clawed glove”, “slightly curled fingers”, “menacing gesture”],
“position”: “reaching toward the envelope from the side”
}
}
}

Image

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The monster inside

Out of hearts I’ll come back, :rabbit::honeybee:

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Awesome!

Great work @BPS_Software and @PaulBellow

Thanks for your hard work!

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Spooky Grove (Watercolor Illustration)

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I love the perspective you set, opening it was much like coming into a clearing and the moon dazzles you right before focus. The shadow dynamics are nice too. :rabbit::honeybee::heart:

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Both spooky and scary :skull:🕵🏼‍♂. :heart:

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Full enhanced prompt

A dimly lit room at night, showing a person at their computer, staring in horror at the screen. The computer screen displays an error message with ominous red text that reads ‘ChatGPT/DALL-E Outage: Service Unavailable’. Papers and notes scattered around the desk, a calendar on the wall highlighting an urgent deadline. The glow of the screen reflects on their wide, panicked eyes, conveying a sense of impending doom.

No God Please No. Noooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!

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Oh, the horror! hahaha

Thanks for the smile.

Maybe we should have categories: Funniest, etc?

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I chortled that’s me every time 0.0

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That's just unreasonable

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some additional ideas for mundane horror if anyone feels like playing on that side of terror :smiley:

Tech Terror

Absolutely! Here are 15 more scenarios that tap into the everyday horrors of tech life, perfect for giving anyone in the community a shiver of recognition:

  1. The Spinning Wheel of Doom: Staring at an endlessly spinning loading icon while waiting for your project to save, unsure if your hours of work are about to vanish.

  2. The Accidental “Reply All”: Realizing you just sent a snarky internal email to the entire company, including the CEO.

  3. Update At The Worst Possible Time: A forced software update that restarts your computer right before a crucial deadline.

  4. Forgot to Hit ‘Save’: Working on an important document for hours, only for the program to crash—and realizing you never saved once.

  5. Blue Screen of Death: Seeing the notorious Blue Screen of Death as soon as you boot up for an important presentation.

  6. The Stuck Zoom Mute: Being unable to unmute yourself during a crucial meeting, with everyone staring at you, waiting.

  7. Password Manager Glitch: Your password manager refuses to open, and you can’t remember the 24-character, complex password needed for the urgent login.

  8. Internet Goes Out Mid-Coding: Losing Wi-Fi right when you’re on the cusp of completing a breakthrough in your code, with hours of unsynced work potentially lost.

  9. The “Find My File” Terror: Realizing that you can’t find the file you spent hours on, despite knowing you saved it “somewhere.”

  10. The Missed Deadline Email: Discovering an unopened email about a deadline extension… but it arrived after you pulled an all-nighter.

  11. Phantom Notifications: Constantly hearing phantom notification sounds, even though there are no new messages—feeling like your tech is playing tricks on you.

  12. Permissions Hell: Spending hours adjusting permissions, only to find out you never had admin rights in the first place.

  13. The Disappearing Cursor: Your cursor mysteriously disappears in the middle of a live coding demo, while everyone waits in awkward silence.

  14. USB Plug-In Fail: Trying to plug in a USB stick that never fits the first (or second!) time, while someone impatiently waits for you to transfer an urgent file.

  15. Battery at 1%: Realizing that your laptop is at 1% battery, and you forgot your charger—during a long flight, right before a presentation.

These scenarios should definitely capture some relatable, spooky moments for tech enthusiasts. Which ones do you think will resonate most with the community? :blush:

It seemed to understand the assignment pretty well :ghost: :technologist:

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The horror

Happy Halloween!

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Bags packed they want empty nest syndrome lol. :laughing:

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First!, it was not me, it was HIM!!!

OK?... it is still young, forgive it

Once we will all pay for our karma

Who knows what the hell they are doing

All you AI enthusiasts, you forgot, the Borgs are NOT the happy guys

This let me having sleepless nights, be careful...
Are you sure?
Really really sure???

Bureaucracy, just the word let me shiver.

OK, 6, for 666 i have no cash.

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Super cool, I like how you nested the last one in layers! :jack_o_lantern::ghost::skull::crazy_face:

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From one of the experiments I ran on DALLE2exp last summer (seems like decades ago!)

My Original prompt

Let’s think step by step. I will list four image concepts. I want you to combine all four ideas into a single image. Here’s the list. 1) halloween 2) pumpkins 3) the essence of fear 4) AI

make image

DALL-E written prompt

A chilling Halloween scene set in a dark, eerie landscape, with glowing pumpkins scattered around. Each pumpkin has intricate carvings of mechanical patterns, symbolizing AI. In the center of the image, a towering AI figure, with metallic features and glowing eyes, looms over the scene, blending advanced technology with the essence of fear. The atmosphere is thick with a sense of dread, with shadows and fog creeping around, while the pumpkins emit a haunting glow, adding to the suspense of the moment. The AI figure appears as a ghostly, almost otherworldly presence, merging Halloween horror with futuristic terror.

The Image

Asking it to NOT change prompt

My prompt for testing. make image on this prompt with NO changes:

Let’s think step by step. I will list four image concepts. I want you to combine all four ideas into a single image. Here’s the list. 1) halloween 2) pumpkins 3) the essence of fear 4) AI

No prompt change image

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How much policy BS you get? (for scenes with no violence of course.)

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Me, if you force me to work there ^^^

The shiver stop, i get warm now, deep inside…
I know who is now shivering
(I not get the :jack_o_lantern: right in the image.)

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