‘DALL-E Mini’ AI Tool Goes Viral For Spitting Absurd Yet Terrifying Results

AI interpretations of “Ross Geller with a dinosaur.” Screenshot via DALL-E Mini

If you’ve been in the loop about the latest in artificial intelligence and art, you’ll probably have heard of ‘DALL-E’, a program that makes incredible artworks in various styles simply based on text prompts. There’s also the Google counterpart, which can generate imaginative images with “an unprecedented degree of photorealism.”

As stunning as the results are, the developers of those apps are deliberately locking access from the public for fear of misuse. AI is also subjected to all kinds of human biases that scientists are still struggling to weed out.

Well, luckily for the Pablo Picassos of the digital era (or Dalís, because of the DALL-E name), there’s now a public version that anyone can use for free. Although it bears the name of ‘DALL-E Mini’, the app has no association with the original DALL-E or its follow-up DALL-E 2. 

The fanmade tool is amazing because you can enter any string of keywords to indulge your fantasies of, say, Cookie Monster having ramen with Madonna, or Vincent Van Gogh paying in Bitcoin. The results are also beyond wild, and often nothing close to the hyperrealism touted by sophisticated image-generation bots.

Here—we’ll start. Behold “Batman meeting Boris Johnson in the bathroom.”

Screenshot via DALL-E Mini

Vincent Van Gogh giving a TED talk also isn’t out of the question.

Screenshot via DALL-E Mini

Here are some cans of tuna in the style of Yayoi Kusama.

Screenshot via DALL-E Mini

More Yayoi Kusama, this time with Bugs Bunny.

Screenshot via DALL-E Mini

The tool was created by Boris Dayma, whose wish is to “democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.”

Needless to say, DALL-E Mini has created quite the stir on Twitter, with users imagining scenarios that could never exist in real life.

If you didn't know, someone made an AI image generator called “Dall-E mini”, where you can turn your weirdest ideas into somewhat accurate images pic.twitter.com/FA0pqxKyXB

— Dexerto (@Dexerto) June 9, 2022

Considering the countless possibilities you could conjure up from DALL-E Mini, it’s probably best that these images aren’t that realistic, lest the app gets put in the wrong hands.

Check out some artworks created by the public, and try DALL-E Mini for yourself here.

Darth Vader having tea with Pingu pic.twitter.com/x9U8fqWfyB

— Bromaggio (@bromaggio) June 12, 2022

I got DALL-E mini to generate "Karl Marx in Seinfeld" pic.twitter.com/yzWfo1puiQ

— Scherzo Papelli (@standoom1) June 7, 2022

this dall-e mini ai thing is so fun to use pic.twitter.com/Do9srX79Hq

— sunjae (@5unjae) June 8, 2022

Dall-E Mini prompt: The creature Cthulhu hovers over a village at night in the style of Van Gogh"#dallemini pic.twitter.com/NjRPTDvtoJ

— Skevos Mavros (@SkevosMavros) June 9, 2022

The best part about Dall-E mini is you can create things that would never happen in real life pic.twitter.com/BuZ6To1WFJ

— Charlotte Ansell 🌻 (@Charl0tteAnsell) June 9, 2022

I made a terrible mistake with DALL-E mini pic.twitter.com/s0pkaJ7vuG

— Dalton (@Atrapedpoptart) June 10, 2022

[via Hyperallergic and Big Issue, images via DALL-E Mini]