DALL-E

Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 3 years (2022–2024), in 12 threads.

People raised many different problems with DALL-E, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 10 complaints

API silently rewrites the user's prompts, so results don't match what they wrote2024-02-16
Rewrites prompts so the output is barely controllable2023-11-29
Can't get the image to spell text correctly and keeps variants from following instructions2023-11-18
Can't reliably express removal, so 'instead of' prompts render all concepts2023-10-20
Writing long prompts takes more effort than just making the image manually2023-09-20
Can only keep one of four generated images; prompt bar sits over the work area2023-01-21
Input box is confusing, unclear why it builds in2023-01-19
On wide windows without a scrollbar, saved images never load, forcing resizing to scroll2022-09-10
Requires very detailed prompts and sifting through many outputs to find good ones2022-08-24
Site is unusable when opened on a phone2022-08-07