Photo of a serene park setting. On the left,
a golden retriever sits attentively, gazing
forward with its tongue out. On the right,
a tabby cat lounges lazily, stretching its
legs out and looking towards the dog with
a curious expression.

Cartoon drawing of an outer space scene.
Amidst floating planets and twinkling
stars, a whimsical horse with exaggerated
features rides an astronaut, who swims
through space with a jetpack, looking a
tad overwhelmed.

Arum dioscoridis.

Figure 7 – Examples of common failure modes of DALL-E 3

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actually sees tokens that represent whole words and must map those to letters in an image. In future work, we
would like to explore conditioning on character-level language models to help improve this behavior.

5.3 Specificity
Improving Image Generation with Better Captions