Dall-E 3 Is So Good It’s Stoking an Artist Revolt Against AI Scraping

Artists are worried AI will take their jobs — so they’re getting creative.

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Dall-E 3, the latest image-generating software created by OpenAI, can produce a picture of almost anything. It can conjure a watercolor portrait of a mermaid, a personalized birthday greeting or a faux photograph of Spider-Man eating pizza, all based on just a few words of prompting.

The new version of the tool, released in September, represents a “leap forward,” in artificial intelligence-created images, OpenAI says. Dall-E 3 offers better detail and the ability to render text more reliably. It’s also further stoked illustrators’ fears that they will be replaced by a computer program mimicking their work.