2021

DALL-E — Text to Image

OpenAI unveils DALL-E, a model that generates images from text descriptions: "an armchair in the shape of an avocado." The results are surreal, playful, and deeply unsettling to artists and illustrators who suddenly see a machine doing in seconds what takes them hours. It's the opening salvo in AI's creative revolution. Within a year, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion follow. The question shifts from "can AI be creative?" to "what does creativity even mean when a machine can do it?"