Introduction
Large-scale text-to-image generation becomes a clearly legible product/research category before the diffusion wave. The announcement and paper publication are recorded separately.
View full image ↗Compositional generation examples from Figure 2 of the DALL·E paper, retaining the original objects and prompts. From the February 2021 paper, following the January announcement.
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Combinations in language become demonstrable visual generation.
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Release and use
The January 2021 DALL·E announcement demonstrates attributes, spatial relations and unusual combinations using a transformer trained on image–text pairs. Samples are ranked with CLIP, and the page describes its selection procedure. Demonstration, subsequent paper and accessible product are distinct historical records.
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Change in creative practice
Language both requests an image and frames its interpretation. Comparisons should retain prompts and selection procedures: a presented sample set does not establish equivalent success for arbitrary inputs.
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