You may not know what material the muffler is made of, but you know its made of a material. You "care about the objects themselves" in the sense of having this

You may not know what material the muffler is made of, but you know its made of a material. You "care about the objects themselves" in the sense of having this framework of objects, all of which have certain properties and relations to each other which form a predictive model you have about the world. You expect everything to have a position in x,y,z, to have a size, shape, mass, hardness etc. You might not care about a particular property of a particular object in a particular context, but you fundamentally think in the semantics of objects. You know what to expect when the heavy hard object meets the brittle lite object. DallE doesn't really have a system of the semantics of objects. It doesn't know why it would be useless for a building to have all the doors on the 2nd level. Its not even clear that DallE makes use of discrete "objects" in its limited understanding. Here's an example from budget DallE https://ibb.co/B2B5zky https://ibb.co/B2B5zky It understood the shape of "stick figure" and "boobs", but had no understanding of what a stick figure is meant to represent and thus where it should place the boobs. The results are hilarious. I'm not sure which I like more, the guy with a boob casually walking down his arm, or the lady with a boob head that's shrugging with uncertainty.