It's very good at generating art style images. These kind of images are mostly amazing most of the times. But the Photorealistic images only work with cherry picking.
Me and you must have very different definitions of "cherry picking". For prompts that fall within it's scope (i.e not something unusually complex or obscure) I get usable results probably 90% of the time.
Can you give me some examples of prompts that you tried where you found good results difficult to obtain?
It did generate good dslr like face closeups, as good as Nvidia does, most of the times but not always. Sometimes there are weird artifacts and face does not make sense.
Dslr style blurry photos are mostly good. From the looks of images I follow, imagen is probably more believable. Don't know how much cherry picking goes on there. See this thread [1] for example. I failed to generate image like this (honey dress) in dalle2.
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/ImagenAI/comments/w3saku/creating_i...