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OpenAI’s new AI image generator is potent and bound to provoke


The visual apocalypse is probably nigh, but perhaps seeing was never believing.

The arrival of OpenAI's DALL-E 2 in the spring of 2022 marked a turning point in AI when text-to-image generation suddenly became accessible to a select group of users, creating a community of digital explorers who experienced wonder and controversy as the technology automated the act of visual creation. Like DALL-E 2 before it, 4o IG is bound to provoke debate as it enables sophisticated media manipulation capabilities that were once the domain of sci-fi and skilled human creators into an accessible AI tool that people can use through simple text prompts. The ability for 4o Image Generation to imitate celebrity likenesses, brand logos, and Studio Ghibli films reinforces and reminds us how GPT-4o is partly (aside from some licensed content) a product of a massive scrape of the Internet without regard to copyright or consent from artists.

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