I've been using OpenAIs image generator DALL-E a few times, and I'm not impressed. Anyone else here with some experience of AI and pictures?

For example, I asked DALL-E 3 to generate a picture of a three storey building situated in a park. The picture that it generated shows indeed a building situated in a park, but the building has more than 10 storeys. It's an absurd looking high-rise.

So, I ask it to reduce the number of storeys, and specify that 'three storeys' might look like three horisontal rows of windows stacked on top of each other. It generated a new picture, but it shows yet another high rise building, now with 15 or more storeys. The software claims that it has now reduced the number of stories according to my description. It's a lie. Obviously, the software does not know what it's doing.

Text-generating AI assistants seem to be better at acting as if they know what they're doing, and for coding and text analysis they might be useful even. But there are some fundamental differences between texts and pictures.

For example, pictures such as paintings or photographs are syntactically or semantically dense, i.e. between two identifiable meanings there is possibly a third meaning. AI-powered picture generators produce pictures according to verbal descriptions, but verbal descriptions are syntactically disjoint, not dense.

Does this difference explain my lack of success when I ask DALL-E 3 to produce a picture of a three story building? It talks (ChatGPT4o) as if it knows the meaning of 'three storeys', but it shows that it has no clue.