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Text-to-image AI: Powerful, easy-to-use technology for making art and fakes

Seemingly bound by only your imagination, this latest trend in synthetic media has delighted many, inspired others and struck fear in some

AI, Artificial Intelligence
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OpenAI’s text-to-image image generator, DALL-E, took the internet by storm when it was unveiled on Jan. 5, 2021.

Hany Farid | The Conversation
Type “Teddy bears working on new AI research on the moon in the 1980s” into any of the recently released text-to-image artificial intelligence image generators, and after just a few seconds the sophisticated software will produce an eerily pertinent image.

Seemingly bound by only your imagination, this latest trend in synthetic media has delighted many, inspired others and struck fear in some.

Google, research firm OpenAI and AI vendor Stability AI have each developed a text-to-image image generator powerful enough that some observers are questioning whether in the future people will be able to trust the photographic record.

As a computer scientist who