[dimmuborgir]

Lots of weird artifacts which are very hard to fix.

The argument that users can now generate professional grade art by bypassing artists entirely feels so strange. I have access to Dall-E. To generate images without artifacts, you have to do one of these: a) Do a lot of cherry-picking which can be expensive. b) Prompt should be about an abstract concept which can "tolerate" any number of artifacts. c) Prompt should be about a common/generic concept that you have already seen a lot of times on the internet.

I think the biggest use case of Dall-E will be in removing creative block for artists.

[aetherson]

I don't think that Dall-E as it currently exists is a big threat to professional artists.

It's not super hard to imagine a noticeably improved version of Dall-E being a serious threat to professional artists, though. It's a question of how hard it will be to make some linear improvements to Dall-E.

As a side note, I created an image in MidJourney from a prompt, which got a fairly pretty image that had some serious facial asymmetry problems, then uploaded the image to Dall-E and erased half the face, letting Dall-E fill it back in with a much more symmetrical look, and that kinda felt like the future. Using various AI models as tools for the things they do best.

[mrtksn]

These feel like tools for creativity. Although the end result might not be masterful, it's super cool for quick iteration and exploration.

Suddenly, people who don't have the skills to do that can start doing it and once you pick an output I totally see how you can improve on it manually.