Whether you like them or not, Artificial Intelligence (AI) image generators have exploded in popularity this year and the technology shows no signs of stopping.

At the start of 2022, there were hardly any AI text-to-image generators available to the public, but with DALL-E finally becoming available in beta in July and Stable Diffusion being released a month later, there are now suddenly an array of AI image generators vying to be the best software on the market.

So if you’re feeling confused about which AI Image generator you should use in 2022, this is a complete guide to the best options out there.

DALL-E 2

A product of the Elon Musk co-founded research lab OpenAI, DALL-E 2, which we’ll refer to as simply DALL-E, is the software most people can name when you ask them about AI text-to-image generators.

When it launched in April, DALL-E stunned social media with its ability to turn a brief description into a photo-realistic image.

For the few people with privileged access to the closed-off tool, DALL-E was so exceptional that it almost felt like magic — whether that involved generating pictures of “a raccoon astronaut with the cosmos reflecting on the glass of his helmet” or “teddy bears shopping for groceries in Ancient Egypt,” all from a simple text prompt