It paints, it edits, it potentially misleads people with faked pictures
OpenAI has provided its latest caption-to-image-generation model, dubbed DALL·E 2, to select users to test before it potentially opens up the technology for wider use. Named after the surrealist artist Salvador Dali and the Pixar robot character Wall-E, the model’s predecessor, DALL·E, was launched last year. This software is capable of creating images in various artistic styles when guided by text inputs: it generates pictures from what you describe to it. You ask for an anatomically realistic-looking heart, or a cartoon of a baby daikon radish in a tutu walking a dog, and it’ll try its best to make an image matching that. The newer version, DALL·E 2, is said to be more versatile and capable of generating images from captions at higher resolutions across more artistic styles. It also comes with new abilities, too. Users can now automatically edit a supplied image using the so-called in-painting function: tell DALL·E 2 what to add or change, and it’ll try to make that edit. For example, highlighting the space above the Mona Lisa’s head and typing „give her a mohawk“ will superimpose an AI-generated spiky haircut onto the image of the famous painting.
