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ARTICLE · 21 OCTOBER 2025

Dalí Vs Dall-E: Why AI Novelty Lags Human Creativity

I have just put the new Gemini Nano Banana image generator through its paces. It has impressive capabilities, yet, for me, DALL-E remains the original and best.

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I have just put the new Gemini Nano Banana image generator through its paces. It has impressive capabilities, yet, for me, DALL-E remains the original and best. But how does it compare to one of the premier proponents of human creativity?

DALL-E debuted as a research paper with a working demo in 2021, before ChatGPT became a global phenomenon, but the two were eventually integrated in October 2023. The name "DALL-E" refers to the artist Salvador Dalí and the Pixar character WALL-E. It is striking that OpenAI selected the most eccentric humans and the most human robots to describe their AI product. Nonetheless, these choices provide the perfect starting point to explore the differences between human and AI creativity.

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