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Now add a walrus: Prompt engineering in DALL-E 3

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Last year I wrote about my initial experiments with DALL-E 2, OpenAI’s image generation model. I’ve been having an absurd amount of fun playing with its sequel, DALL-E 3 recently. Here are some notes, including a peak under the hood and some notes on the leaked system prompt. DALL-E 3 is available via ChatGPT Plus. For $20/month you get GPT-4 access, DALL-E 3, GPT Vision, Code Interpreter (aka Coding Intern), ChatGPT Plugins and the new, weird and slightly dystopian voice chat feature in the ChatGPT mobile apps. It’s absolutely worth the money, for the combined entertainment value alone. A fascinating thing about DALL-E 3 is that you don’t prompt it directly: you instead access it via ChatGPT, which prompts the model for you. ChatGPT then turns your query into several prompts, each producing a different image. The prompts it generates are available if you click on the images (on mobile you have to flip your phone horizontal to see that option). I started by typing this into ChatGPT wit

Now add a walrus: Prompt engineering in DALL‑E 3 Simon Willison’s Weblog Subscribe Sponsored by: Microsoft - Agent projects stall between demo and production. Microsoft's MVP checklist closes that gap. Try it Now add a walrus: Prompt engineering in DALL‑E 3 26th October 2023 Last year I wrote about my initial experiments with DALL-E 2 , OpenAI’s image generation model. I’ve been having an absurd amount of fun playing with its sequel, DALL-E 3 recently. Here are some notes, including a peek under the hood and some notes on the leaked system prompt . DALL-E 3 is available via ChatGPT Plus. For $

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