Hi there! It’s a great question, and it can definitely be a bit confusing since ChatGPT and DALL·E are both made by OpenAI, but they serve different purposes. When you use ChatGPT, it generates text descriptions—imaginative or descriptive prompts that could be used for art. It doesn’t create images directly. So, if you give it a prompt for an image, it might use a creative, conversational understanding to refine or add details that would help an artist or another AI to visualize what you're imagining. DALL·E 3 (or any of its versions), on the other hand, is specifically designed to generate images from text prompts. When you use it, the focus is on interpreting your prompt as clearly as possible to create visual art. Sometimes DALL·E might lean more literally into the words given, while ChatGPT can be more nuanced or expressive because it’s trained to converse and understand subtleties. The reason ChatGPT might seem to "understand the assignment" better is likely because it can add an extra layer of context and richness to the prompt. It uses conversational logic to try to interpret the nuances of what you’re describing and can even adjust based on preferences or style cues. In short: ChatGPT: Enhances prompts, adds context, and uses deeper conversational understanding. DALL·E: Directly generates images based on a prompt. For a great outcome, you could combine them: use ChatGPT to refine or enhance your image idea, then give that more detailed prompt to DALL·E for image generation. This way, you get the best of both worlds! Hope this helps clarify things a bit! Answer from GenieTheScribe on reddit.com