I wonder why nobody is talking about Bing Image Creator
https://www.bing.com/images/create
which uses some much more advanced version of Dall-E 2 in the background (so Dall-E 2.5? 3?), while being completely free to use. It can produce some pretty mind blowing results with quite simple prompts, although apparently not as impressive as Midjourney V5. A few examples:
hyperrealistic
https://www.bing.com/images/create/hyperrealistic/644fa0c48f...
an allegory for femininity
https://www.bing.com/images/create/an-allegory-for-femininit...
portrait of a strange woman, hyperrealistic
https://www.bing.com/images/create/portrait-of-a-strange-wom...
allegory of logic, portrait
https://www.bing.com/images/create/allegory-of-logic2c-portr...
her strange bedfellow
https://www.bing.com/images/create/her-strange-bedfellow/644...
Mrs fox
https://www.bing.com/images/create/mrs-fox/6446e85a32134e649...
inside view
https://www.bing.com/images/create/inside-view/6446f1dc573f4...
in the midst of it all
https://www.bing.com/images/create/in-the-midst-of-it-all/64...
strange gal
https://www.bing.com/images/create/strange-gal/6446e2a2ea7a4...
sighting of a strange entity in an abandoned library
https://www.bing.com/images/create/sighting-of-a-strange-ent...
sleeping marble woman next to a wall of strange pictures inside an abandoned museum, close-up
https://www.bing.com/images/create/sleeping-marble-woman-nex...
sculpture of a woman posing next to a wall of strange pictures, close-up
https://www.bing.com/images/create/sculpture-of-a-woman-posi...
Easter
https://www.bing.com/images/create/easter/643ae4968aff432684...
Christmas on board a spaceship, DSLR photograph
https://www.bing.com/images/create/christmas-on-board-a-spac...
an angel, dancing to heavy metal
https://www.bing.com/images/create/an-angel2c-dancing-to-hea...
Saturday afternoon in the streets of a buzzing cyberpunk city, photo-realistic, DSLR
https://www.bing.com/images/create/saturday-afternoon-in-the...
The Dogfather
https://www.bing.com/images/create/the-dogfather/6441d18950b...
the unlikely guest
https://www.bing.com/images/create/the-unlikely-guest/644446...
Strange pictures in an abandoned museum
https://www.bing.com/images/create/strange-pictures-in-an-ab...
strange woman in an abandoned museum, close-up
https://www.bing.com/images/create/strange-woman-in-an-aband...
strange woman in an abandoned museum, strange pictures in the background
https://www.bing.com/images/create/strange-woman-in-an-aband...
a wall of strange pictures in an abandoned museum in Atlantis, close-up
https://www.bing.com/images/create/a-wall-of-strange-picture...
female sculpture in an abandoned museum in Atlantis, close-up
https://www.bing.com/images/create/female-sculpture-in-an-ab...
the unlikely guest
https://www.bing.com/images/create/the-unlikely-guest/644490...
an unlikely guest of the secret society in the lost city in a country without name, close-up
https://www.bing.com/images/create/an-unlikely-guest-of-the-...
I think the quality of most of these pictures is far beyond what is achievable with Dall-E 2. One issue that still exists (though to a lesser extent) is the fact that faces have to cover a fairly large area of the image. Smaller faces look strange, e.g. here:
photograph of the unlikely guests
https://www.bing.com/images/create/photograph-of-the-unlikel...
It is as if the model creates a good draft in low resolution, and another model scales it up, but the latter model doesn't know what a face is? (I have no idea how diffusion models actually work.)