> I think we should look at DALL-E 2 like a highly competent artist that can produce convincing forgeries and even mimic the style of famous artists, but cannot

> I think we should look at DALL-E 2 like a highly competent artist that can produce convincing forgeries and even mimic the style of famous artists, but cannot replace the artists themselves. We don't know that. DALL-E must encode its knowledge about art styles somewhere in a way which permits applying them to almost arbitrary contents, similar to style transfer. So, what do you get when you 'just interpolate' between artists in the high-dimensional space defined by a multi-billion parameter model? It is vanishingly unlikely that that point in the style latent space will correspond to the output of any artist who has ever lived. What if you manipulate the encoding to push it far away from the latent points of a large set of real artists? And so on. We don't know what that looks like or if the new styles would not be considered 'original' by critics unaware of the machine origin.