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