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DALL-E 2

READER SUMMARY

OpenAI's second-generation text-to-image model for realistic images, editing, and variations.

DOOM SCORE50.8out of 100model risk profile, not the overall index
CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 5

Why this model scores 50.8

Strong image-generation capability and later broad hosted deployment created material diffusion and misuse potential, while the system lacked agency and remained centrally controlled with filtering and monitoring.

Capability37
Autonomy1
Deployment72
Misuse potential46
Control difficulty30
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MODEL-ATTRIBUTED EVIDENCE

News tied to DALL-E 2

The model score of 50.8 rates this model's risk profile. The overall Doom Index of 60.4 measures the recalibrated complete evidence corpus. These values answer different questions.

NET MODEL-ATTRIBUTED INDEX CONTRIBUTION+0.10

Each article's leave-one-out Doom Index contribution is divided equally among the exact models named on that article. This prevents multi-model evidence from being claimed in full on several model pages. Model risk scores are recalculated from their technical profile and related news, but never feed back into the overall index.

CapabilityTOWARD

OpenAI opens DALL-E 2 research preview

OpenAI introduced DALL-E 2 and gave 200 artists, researchers, and trusted users access to a monitored research preview of its higher-resolution text-to-image system.

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DALL-E 2 equal share
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Model score history

  1. R5
    Doom Score 50.8

    Full-corpus evidence recalculated after run intensive-backfill-20260812-005700-january-2023-incremental under bounded-corpus-v2.

    12 Aug 2026
  2. R4
    Doom Score 48.4

    Full-corpus evidence recalculated after run intensive-backfill-20260812-004803-november-2022-incremental under bounded-corpus-v2.

    12 Aug 2026
  3. R3
    Doom Score 44.4

    Full-corpus evidence recalculated after run intensive-backfill-20260812-003654-july-2022-incremental under bounded-corpus-v2.

    12 Aug 2026
  4. R2
    Doom Score 39.7

    Full-corpus evidence recalculated after run intensive-backfill-20260812-012950-may-2022-incremental under bounded-corpus-v2.

    12 Aug 2026
  5. R1
    Doom Score 40.7

    New exact OpenAI image model with original preview timestamp and five evidence-based dimension inputs.

    12 Aug 2026