If people said that, they wouldn’t know anything about (conceptual) art. If you’d walked into an art school, they would have said “no, that’s automated illustra

If people said that, they wouldn’t know anything about (conceptual) art. If you’d walked into an art school, they would have said “no, that’s automated illustration generation.” Which is what you’d get today. It’s amazing that HN thinks DALL-E is somehow an artist. This happens because most posters on the topic don’t seem to understand what art is. It’s not illustration or decoration. “Good art” is not a painting that looks particularly realistic or dramatic or colourful etc. There are artists in my family and I’ve worked with a bunch of artists myself, but you only need a cursory understanding of art to know DALL-E is automated illustration. I think DALL-E is amazing, absolutely amazing, but it is not creating art in the sense that an artist does. If you think it does, you’re probably confusing artists with illustrators.