

#Openai dalle produces fantastical images you generator#
On Thursday, Meta revealed it's developing a text-to-image AI called Make-A-Scene, and earlier this year, Google revealed the existence of its own text-to-image generator ( Imagen). The pictures lack photorealistic clarity, and there's something to its grainy aesthetic, punctuated by spun-out faces, that suggests a nightmare seen through a car-wash window, but more powerful options are waiting in the wings. Every request for a portrait of Snoop Dogg eating a cheeseburger is wholly one-of-a-kind. But the pictures it delivers have never existed before. gaI7oYJzf4- is trained on millions of images, a database it refers to when deciphering a user's text-based request.

Free to use and available to all, the public swiftly adopted this open-source image-generator earlier in the year, and it's become a meme-maker's fantasy, spawning infinite threads of jokey one-upmanship. That's especially true in the case of Craiyon (a tool previously known as DALL-E Mini), which is arguably the best known system of its sort. The results are often startling - though not always because of their realism. And in the last few months, the world's become increasingly aware of systems that are capable of conjuring original images from a few simple keywords. If you have the words to describe your vision, no matter how strange - or banal, for that matter - it's now possible to generate a picture in an instant, a file ready to download and share on your platform of choice. Maybe a landscape painting of Algonquin Park, rendered in the style of Monet or Takashi Murakami.

At left, one of Moser's "collaborations" with the AI tool, and one of Lapalme's is at right. Bridget Moser and Ginette Lapalme are two Canadian artists who were granted access to DALL-E 2.
