From ‘Barbies scissoring’ to ‘contorted emotion’: the artists using AI

Four creators share their Dall-E-generated images – and their hopes and fears about AI in art

You type in words – however nonsensical or disjointed – and the algorithm creates a unique image based on your search. This is Dall-E 2, a startlingly advanced, image-generating AI trained on 250 million images, named after the surrealist artist Salvador Dalí and Pixar’s Wall-E.

While use of Dall-E 2 is currently limited to a narrow pool of people, Dall-E mini (or Craiyon …

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