S8E1 - The AI Artist “DALL-E”: Now Everything Is Unique

Device & Virtue

Vincent van Gogh spent decades perfecting his impressionist style. You can master it in one minute with the new AI art generator called DALL-E. Do we even need artists any more?

DALL-E 2 is an artificial intelligence image generator released to the public on Sept 28, 2022. Considered by experts to be a noticeable jump in technology, the website or app allows users to type in any imaginary prompt “a monkey eating grapes in Mexico in the style of Picasso” and in a few seconds generates a new unique image that tries to match the prompt.

Try DALL-E for yourself!

THE QUESTIONS

Adam & Chris imagine the implications and effects of AI generated art including questions like:

• How does this work?
• Could AI generated art replace the human artist?
• Who are the people behind DALL-E art and what are their goals?
• What does the future look like with AI generated art?
• Is their a Christian viewpoint on AI generated art?
• What happens in a world where everything can be unique?

LINKS & RESOURCES

• OpenAI is the non-profit that created DALL-E 2. Their 2015 announcement outlined their goals.
• OpenAI has a content policy for safety and blocks certain keywords from working that could create pornography or fakes of politicians. It also has worked to promote accurate diversity in results.
• However other groups have announced plans to release similar AI tools without any filters
• Chris mentions concepts from Roland Barthes’ “The Death of the Author”

THE IMAGES

For being a podcast for your ears, this was a pretty eye-opening episode! (groan)

Check out all the visual images that Adam & Chris talk about here, including unique images that they created with DALL-E

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