Digital Art Showdown: Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, and Midjourney

A comparison of popular AI diffusion models for creating new works from text prompts

“oil painting of a focused Portuguese guy” and “oil painting of a nightstand with lamp, book, and reading glasses” Rendered by Stable Diffusion (left), DALL-E (center), and Midjourney (right), Images by Author

I have previously written about using the latest DALL-E [1] model from OpenAI to create digital art from text prompts. In this article, I will compare DALL-E to two other popular text-to-image models, Stable Diffusion…