Comparing the results produced by each system with identical prompts
Earlier this year I got access to DALL·E 2 and wrote an article to describe my initial experience with it. When Stable Diffusion was released this month, I was interested to see how it compared to DALL·E 2. Starting with a Reddit article that pointed to an article that described how to run Stable Diffusion locally, I was able to use my Colab Pro subscription to run a sample Colab notebook and get results from Stable Diffusion. This article describes my experience and the contrast between the results produced by Stable Diffusion and DALL·E 2 from the same prompts.
It took about 15 minutes to run the sample Colab notebook to set up Stable Diffusion and get results for the first prompt. Subsequent prompts took a little over a minute each to generate results.
Following is a summary of how the results from Stable Diffusion compared to what DALL·E 2 produced for the same prompts.
Prompts where Stable Diffusion did better than DALL·E 2
Let’s start by looking at some examples where Stable Diffusion did well. Stable Diffusion did a great job on “1940s personal computer”. The dim, oddly-shaped CRTs are perfect. The postwar PC from DALL·E 2 has some good dials and gauges, but the desk stand looks…
