This reading’s conditionsAs of 8 Oct 2026 12:00Z · 7 platforms · 28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026
- As of
- 8 Oct 2026 12:00Z
- Coverage computed
- 8 Oct 2026 21:23Z
- Facts checked
- 8 Oct 2026 22:01:30Z
How posts were linked to the subject
- Unambiguous alias, V2
- 47 posts linked. Precision 93.3% (95% interval 84.1% to 97.4%), n 60 links judged, 0 unclear, run 542.
Measured statements
Written by fixed rules from this reading’s stored figures. No model writes them.
6 statements withheld. n 16 people, below the threshold of 20 people. n 17 people, below the threshold of 20 people. n 2 people, below the threshold of 20 people. No posts about DALL·E on Hacker News between 28 September and 4 October 2026. No posts about DALL·E on arXiv between 28 September and 4 October 2026. Withheld for a platform not counted this week: Exa.
What this reading rests on
| Platform | Days counted | How the posts were collected |
|---|---|---|
| 7 of 7 | Collected live | |
| Bluesky | 7 of 7 | Collected live |
| YouTube | 7 of 7 | Collected live |
| Hacker News | 7 of 7 | Collected live |
| arXiv | 6 of 71 still settling | Collected live2 days low capture, 1 day late heavy |
Not counted: Google News and Exa, no longer collected.
A day counts once it has settled: once the posts still expected for it are below the threshold, or, for posts loaded afterwards from an archive, once they’re loaded. Coverage day by day is in this reading’s conditions. How coverage is recorded.
This reading was made with methods that are still being validated. Every figure says which state it’s in.
Why: Its methods are still being validated.
- Released
- 8 Oct 2026
- Release
- 2026-W40
- Window
- 28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026
- Version
- 1 · no revisions
- Next release
- Wednesday 14 Oct 2026
- Method
- 005c-series-v3.1
Attention
How many people posted about DALL·E on each platform, and DALL·E’s share of that platform’s posts. One row per platform, each on its own terms.
n 28 posts · author coverage 100.0% · 7 days: 7 active
Not counted this week. Exa has no day in this window that counts, so it has no figures here.
Bluesky. People hidden: n 17 people, below the threshold of 20 people. Share and posts hidden: n 17 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
YouTube. People hidden: n 2 people, below the threshold of 20 people. Share and posts hidden: n 2 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
Hacker News. People hidden: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. Share and posts hidden: n 0 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
arXiv. People not applicable: arXiv posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren’t counted. Share and posts hidden: n 0 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
In development. Spam, bot and incentive posts were removed with labels that agree with a stronger model at κ 0.74, below the 0.80 needed to drop this mark. The agreement is model-to-model.
Posts published 28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026, as of 8 Oct 2026 12:00Z; in development. People count distinct platform identities and are never added across platforms. Share is DALL·E’s posts over all posts AIDRAN captured on that platform in the window. Reddit’s posts include its comments. A normal share is dALL·E's share of each platform's posts in the 17 earlier stored weeks of the same era (2026-W23, 2026-W24, 2026-W25, 2026-W26, 2026-W27, 2026-W28, 2026-W29, 2026-W30, 2026-W31, 2026-W32, 2026-W33, 2026-W34, 2026-W35, 2026-W36, 2026-W37, 2026-W38, 2026-W39), per platform. Its figures are in those readings. Choose any number to see what it rests on and the posts behind it.
Stored weeks
DALL·E in every week AIDRAN has stored so far, four weeks at a time (three on a phone), opening on this reading’s week.
W38–W40
W37–W40
People
Hidden
Hidden
Hidden
W37
W38
W39
W40
Share of Reddit posts
W37
W38
W39
W40
DALL·E’s people and share of platform posts, W01–W40, 40 stored weeks. Each chart is on its own scale from all of them. All 40 are in development; the open dot is this reading. Why a week is hidden or ringed is in the notes on stored weeks at the foot of this page.
Communities
The communities the conversation about DALL·E happened in, grouped by platform.
Posts about DALL·E by community, 28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026, as of 8 Oct 2026 12:00Z; in development. Each platform is drawn on its own scale. The word after each community is its type: who is there, not what it’s about (users are people who use one AI product; builders build with AI). A post counts once, in the community it was posted in.
Change
Nothing in this reading could be compared with the previous reading of DALL·E, for 21–27 Sep 2026.
12 measures not compared, and why
- People posting about DALL·E, Reddit. n 0 people between 21 and 27 September 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. n 0 people between 28 September and 4 October 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. Between 21 and 27 September 2026: n 17 people, below the threshold of 20 people. Between 28 September and 4 October 2026: n 16 people, below the threshold of 20 people.
- People posting about DALL·E, Bluesky. n 0 people between 21 and 27 September 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. n 0 people between 28 September and 4 October 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. Between 21 and 27 September 2026: n 12 people, below the threshold of 20 people. Between 28 September and 4 October 2026: n 17 people, below the threshold of 20 people.
- People posting about DALL·E, YouTube. n 0 people between 21 and 27 September 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. n 0 people between 28 September and 4 October 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. Between 21 and 27 September 2026: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. Between 28 September and 4 October 2026: n 2 people, below the threshold of 20 people.
- People posting about DALL·E, Hacker News. n 0 people between 21 and 27 September 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. n 0 people between 28 September and 4 October 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. Between 21 and 27 September 2026: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. Between 28 September and 4 October 2026: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people.
- People posting about DALL·E, arXiv. Between 21 and 27 September 2026: arXiv posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren't counted. Between 28 September and 4 October 2026: arXiv posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren't counted.
- People posting about DALL·E, Exa. Between 21 and 27 September 2026: Exa posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren't counted. Between 28 September and 4 October 2026: Exa posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren't counted.
- DALL·E’s share of Reddit posts. n 24 posts between 21 and 27 September 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 28 posts between 28 September and 4 October 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change.
- DALL·E’s share of Bluesky posts. n 13 posts between 21 and 27 September 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 17 posts between 28 September and 4 October 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 21 and 27 September 2026: n 13 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts, once 2 templated automated posts were left out. Between 28 September and 4 October 2026: n 17 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
- DALL·E’s share of YouTube posts. n 1 posts between 21 and 27 September 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 2 posts between 28 September and 4 October 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 21 and 27 September 2026: n 1 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts. Between 28 September and 4 October 2026: n 2 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
- DALL·E’s share of Hacker News posts. n 0 posts between 21 and 27 September 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 0 posts between 28 September and 4 October 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 21 and 27 September 2026: n 0 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts. Between 28 September and 4 October 2026: n 0 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
- DALL·E’s share of arXiv posts. n 0 posts between 21 and 27 September 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 0 posts between 28 September and 4 October 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 21 and 27 September 2026: n 0 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts. Between 28 September and 4 October 2026: n 0 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
- DALL·E’s share of Exa posts. n 0 posts between 21 and 27 September 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 0 posts between 28 September and 4 October 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 21 and 27 September 2026: Not counted this week: Exa has no day between 21 and 27 September 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show. Between 28 September and 4 October 2026: Not counted this week: Exa has no day between 28 September and 4 October 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show.
Change compares this reading with the previous stored reading of the same subject, usually last week’s, and both endpoints stay visible with their dates. Each value carries its n; open it for its full conditions, coverage included. Stored weeks, above, cross eras, which marks a change in how weeks were captured: March era weeks were rebuilt from archives, with live capture from 7 Mar to 31 May, Archive backfill weeks were backfilled from archives (Reddit, Hacker News and arXiv only) and September era weeks were captured live from 16 Sep and filled in from archives.
Conditions
What every figure on this page rests on.
- As of
- 8 Oct 2026 12:00Z
- Coverage computed
- 8 Oct 2026 21:23Z
- Facts checked
- 8 Oct 2026 22:01:30Z
- Posts without facts
- 0
- Author coverage basis
- posts with an identifiable platform identity; article sources have none by definition
Coverage in this window, day by day for each platform, is drawn once: in the conditions rail beside the measured statements.
Coverage in this window
- 2026-09-28 · active
- 2026-09-29 · active
- 2026-09-30 · active
- 2026-10-01 · active
- 2026-10-02 · active
- 2026-10-03 · active
- 2026-10-04 · active
Bluesky
- 2026-09-28 · active
- 2026-09-29 · active
- 2026-09-30 · active
- 2026-10-01 · active
- 2026-10-02 · active
- 2026-10-03 · active
- 2026-10-04 · active
YouTube
- 2026-09-28 · active
- 2026-09-29 · active
- 2026-09-30 · active
- 2026-10-01 · active
- 2026-10-02 · active
- 2026-10-03 · active
- 2026-10-04 · active
Hacker News
- 2026-09-28 · active
- 2026-09-29 · active
- 2026-09-30 · active
- 2026-10-01 · active
- 2026-10-02 · active
- 2026-10-03 · active
- 2026-10-04 · active
arXiv
- 2026-09-28 · active · late heavy
- 2026-09-29 · active
- 2026-09-30 · active
- 2026-10-01 · active
- 2026-10-02 · active
- 2026-10-03 · active · low capture
- 2026-10-04 · active · low capture
Google News
- 2026-09-28 · no lane
- 2026-09-29 · no lane
- 2026-09-30 · no lane
- 2026-10-01 · no lane
- 2026-10-02 · no lane
- 2026-10-03 · no lane
- 2026-10-04 · no lane
Exa
- 2026-09-28 · no lane
- 2026-09-29 · no lane
- 2026-09-30 · no lane
- 2026-10-01 · no lane
- 2026-10-02 · no lane
- 2026-10-03 · no lane
- 2026-10-04 · no lane
Excluded: posts not about AI or unclear
Posts linked to DALL·E that relevance run 61 labels not about AI or unclear, Reddit
Labels from relevance run 61, an open model.
n 80 posts · Reddit · 28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026 · 7 days: 7 active
Posts linked to DALL·E that relevance run 61 labels not about AI or unclear, Bluesky
Labels from relevance run 61, an open model.
n 1 posts · Bluesky · 28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026 · 7 days: 7 active
Posts linked to DALL·E that relevance run 61 labels not about AI or unclear, YouTube
Labels from relevance run 61, an open model.
n 0 posts · YouTube · 28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026 · 7 days: 7 active
Posts linked to DALL·E that relevance run 61 labels not about AI or unclear, Hacker News
Labels from relevance run 61, an open model.
n 0 posts · Hacker News · 28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026 · 7 days: 7 active
Posts linked to DALL·E that relevance run 61 labels not about AI or unclear, arXiv
Labels from relevance run 61, an open model.
n 0 posts · arXiv · 28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026 · 7 days: 7 active
Each platform’s share is stated on its own and never combined.
Excluded: spam, bots and incentive posts
Posts linked to DALL·E about AI that run 64 labels spam, bot or incentive, Reddit
Labels from run 64, an open model.
n 7 posts · Reddit · 28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026 · 7 days: 7 active
Posts linked to DALL·E about AI that run 64 labels spam, bot or incentive, Bluesky
Labels from run 64, an open model.
n 15 posts · Bluesky · 28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026 · 7 days: 7 active
Posts linked to DALL·E about AI that run 64 labels spam, bot or incentive, YouTube
Labels from run 64, an open model.
n 5 posts · YouTube · 28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026 · 7 days: 7 active
Posts linked to DALL·E about AI that run 64 labels spam, bot or incentive, Hacker News
Labels from run 64, an open model.
n 0 posts · Hacker News · 28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026 · 7 days: 7 active
Posts linked to DALL·E about AI that run 64 labels spam, bot or incentive, arXiv
Labels from run 64, an open model.
n 0 posts · arXiv · 28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026 · 7 days: 7 active
Each platform’s share is stated on its own and never combined.
Excluded: templated automated posts
Posts linked to DALL·E that templated-repetition rule run 518 flags as one account repeating a template, Reddit
Flags from rule run 518: clusters of 4 or more near-identical posts in the week where one account posted at least half. In blind checks of samples, about 9 in 10 flags were one account repeating a template.
n 1,416 posts · Reddit · 28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026 · 7 days: 7 active
Posts linked to DALL·E that templated-repetition rule run 518 flags as one account repeating a template, Bluesky
Flags from rule run 518: clusters of 4 or more near-identical posts in the week where one account posted at least half. In blind checks of samples, about 9 in 10 flags were one account repeating a template.
n 0 posts · Bluesky · 28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026 · 7 days: 7 active
Each platform’s share is stated on its own and never combined.
Not counted this week, so not shown: Exa.
These conditions were frozen when the reading was created and are never recomputed.
Not in this reading yet
Parts this method doesn’t produce yet. They’re named, never shown as empty.
- Frames
- Frames aren’t measured yet.
- Register
- Register isn’t measured yet.
- Frame evidence
- Quotes for frames come with frames. The quotes here are the fixed samples behind this reading’s figures.
Cite this reading
In development Published 8 Oct 2026. Release 2026-W40. Its figures never change: a correction or revision is a new reading. Cite it with its permanent link.
AIDRAN. 'DALL·E', release 2026-W40, reading r_e1c3be4de199 (v1). Published 8 October 2026.
Permanent link /r/r_e1c3be4de199
AIDRAN is the author and the publisher, so the citation names it once. Cite the permanent link, never a browse path.
Licensed CC BY 4.0: reuse it with this citation.
References
DALL·E as Wikipedia describes it. Chosen by hand and checked, and not part of the measurement.
Notes on stored weeksWhy the Stored weeks charts hide or ring a week: 12 hidden and 3 coverage-limited platform weeks, each with its stored reason.
W25–W26 people hidden: n 18 people, below the threshold of 20 people.
W25 people hidden: n 18 people, below the threshold of 20 people.
W26 people hidden: n 18 people, below the threshold of 20 people.
W28 people hidden: n 19 people, below the threshold of 20 people.
W29 people hidden: n 16 people, below the threshold of 20 people.
W30 people hidden: n 18 people, below the threshold of 20 people.
W31 people hidden: n 14 people, below the threshold of 20 people.
W32 people hidden: n 18 people, below the threshold of 20 people.
W33 people hidden: n 17 people, below the threshold of 20 people.
W34 people hidden: n 13 people, below the threshold of 20 people.
W38 people hidden: n 15 people, below the threshold of 20 people.
W39 people hidden: n 17 people, below the threshold of 20 people.
W40 people hidden: n 16 people, below the threshold of 20 people.
W10 coverage-limited: Partial day on Reddit: partial capture on 7 March 2026
W22 coverage-limited: Partial day on Reddit: partial capture on 31 May 2026
W38 coverage-limited: Partial day on Reddit: capture began at 00:24 UTC on 17 September 2026