# damn dall-e. 

By [nilknahs](https://paragraph.com/@souljaboytellem) · 2022-08-20

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In highschool you was the man Dall-e, or whatever [50 cent](https://youtu.be/1XRa-DDsfsc?t=83) said i’m 3 for 3 with these rap puns idgaf what u think lol. I recently got access to [Dalle-2](https://openai.com/dall-e-2/) and let me tell you---it is _very_ dope. I spent literal hours playing around with it & experimenting and it’s a lot of fun. For those who don’t know what I’m talking about, Dall-e is an A.I system that generates images based on whatever you type into it. Pretty much whatever you’re thinking, just type it into Dall-e, and it will spit out an image.

[https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1547643186742382592?s=20&t=JMr2axLdy8LaDn-CaX5BaA](https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1547643186742382592?s=20&t=JMr2axLdy8LaDn-CaX5BaA)

There’s a lot of machine learning [stuff](https://towardsdatascience.com/dall-e-2-0-explained-7b928f3adce7) going on under the hood to make this work, which is cool because you get to immediately see your ideas. Tbh you can do _a lot_ with this, but for my first go around I primarily used it like a camera (lol go figure). Check out some of my images below, all of them were created from just typing prompts.

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I first started off typing in stuff about cowboys and such:

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/9171323db3aa026f915e950f14cc273221fb8e2dc23fcd453b4ea46d79045bc2.png)

![i like trying to understand how dall-e recreates certain film stocks. this was an example of ektar 100](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/225ee52893ecff1808f7bfc4f79c36f92430f32c74710f911faf6fd29e6ac790.png)

i like trying to understand how dall-e recreates certain film stocks. this was an example of ektar 100

![dall-e's recreation of film is very interesting to me](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/af948161f877fd6a008ab0543dc8d28a00e18773321a739f02e70f6e0245dbb4.png)

dall-e's recreation of film is very interesting to me

![i like when dall-e creates these quadrant type compositions.](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/95f6d7ada86c79ba5843b2d6ad41b5e8e14b9e5d120c128ae227936b53310b4f.png)

i like when dall-e creates these quadrant type compositions.

![i thought this was interesting. i wanted to see if dall-e could recreate a contact sheet](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/10983a1dab15f7e2d45f5e498c3478bf6e0db5e17049de3a514680f23792299b.png)

i thought this was interesting. i wanted to see if dall-e could recreate a contact sheet

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/733f00b8d720d3323b4df2c82e9d13a3ba25aabb0c7bfbc67e3fd79066dfa9df.png)

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/c3686053d158c9f9826eb158ca35d820cb79b6c6c0cbb9fd5ac2f0398160083d.png)

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/d4c337da4f3eb099c72eff9dbe02f33e5e09a12e545bb39e687def735952d408.png)

![recreating neon signs with dall-e](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/cd570b84c9abbf922aacb01b6c6afe235354166aecdc3c2fabad220eec225fc0.png)

recreating neon signs with dall-e

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During this part I wanted to see a 70s disco vibe so I typed prompts that revolved around that:

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/718ec7fc522ed72bdaf9ef2f514729e457d99b0261c97462ca3edc711fe397ab.png)

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/637e062b6dae5ef4452e86e2f0457f13329ae850c12f6f8550b47563402c2457.png)

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/e16eaff2fea8fc4022aead13def700b9e2e7bf7db10f4c8f0d2d73abc05d95da.png)

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Here is where I got a bit weird. I wanted to try some other stuff to see if I could get Dall-e to make some unique composites.

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/4207842d2d424aea9bdeb6254bf518af869bda734c256ba62db9250f8fbc51ee.png)

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/5efc69070d79eb5099a9bfc9974589b0d4b8cc94d4afaedb5eaf0843bf830913.png)

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/4fc4039e2d650a21faeb6b223a4bd9b9382389277a4333e465841d6fd5847e1e.png)

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Lately I’ve been super into showing motion within photography and wanted to see how Dall-e could interpret prompts based on that:

![person falling in shower](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/dc0c2c391b6544bc14235076205c7b54b52372ae88ac9364eb419e6c83c5569f.png)

person falling in shower

![people walking up mountain](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/575f045d737f15a46ced3060fbcdb0ce5ac6d46688806cdd731cbf8a2049a5e6.png)

people walking up mountain

![car driving around mountain](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/ca2955a1e03dd7fd18dc9017f76f8019be8aae134118e47c5c956ed7ade2e653.png)

car driving around mountain

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/f2be342b80dcaf56812c8e88aab411bac7057865d96aac5b2cb828c824cf1e88.png)

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All in all, Dall-e is a lot of fun. It’s easy enough for anyone to pick up and use, but there’s a lot of depth to it. Using Dall-e makes me feel like Robin Williams in [Flubber](https://youtu.be/y3PNYIRP2ro?t=58). You put in what you want and it spits it back to you. I definitely will be using this more often.

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*Originally published on [nilknahs](https://paragraph.com/@souljaboytellem/damn-dall-e)*