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I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2 for $45 by blackwater 08/08/2022, 5:28pm PDT
I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2 for $45: here’s what I learned


Blog posts with images get 2.3x more engagement. Here’s the problem - we make a query engine for streaming tables. How the heck are you supposed to pick images for technical topics like [...]

As a small team of mostly engineers, we don’t have the time or budget to commission custom artwork for every one of our blog posts.

Our approach so far has been to spend 10 minutes scrolling through tangentially related but ultimately ill-fitting images from stock photo sites, download something not terrible, slap it in the front matter and hit publish. Can AI generated images from DALL-E make better blog thumbnails, do it cheaper, and generally just be more fun? Yes, quant fans, it can.

I spent the weekend and $45 in OpenAi credits generating new thumbnails that better represent the content of all 100+ posts from our blog. For attribution, I’ve included the prompt used to create the image as the alt text on all our new thumbnails.




Looking forward to the follow-up post, "I replaced all our blog content using DALL-E 3 for $12"

The future looks bright!
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I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2 for $45 by blackwater 08/08/2022, 5:28pm PDT NEW
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