I don't know if that's conscious or not, but how DALL-E output is formatted, for a given prompt, it looks like Andy Warhol pop art juxtapositions, only instead of color palette changes, it's the various results for the same prompt.<p>Anyway.<p>You still need someone to generate the prompt. To pick up and refine something. And you need someone to appreciate the result.<p>So... in this light, I am mixed (speaking from my musician/composer point of view - where this will have an impact too already).<p>On one hand, it's pretty exciting.<p>It looks a bit like a big synthesizer/arranger, for pictures, where you have like, very specifiable presets you can choose from, and where you can filter/distort the result at will, with words rather than knobs. Only, you don't _know_ how the output reacts to the input exactly.<p>Ok, you can get ideas from this. Or quick rough works where you can crossover concepts and ideas to see how it could go.<p>On the other hand, it's meh.<p>If you consider an artwork as a thing/product/content only, it's a bit worrying. Because there will be a massive shift of "producers" and consumers moving toward these generated/optimized pieces content. Just look at how people adjust/abide to the rules of social networks to market their content (because it's become content at this point, it's not art anymore).<p>Remember that the whole mess where we are today comes down from the fact that we, as a species, try to quantify, then over-optimize every aspect of our lives, for profit: money wants even more money. And it became even only worse with the internet.<p>If you consider an artwork as a medium - between people, across generations. Then it's a very exciting additional tool in the palette.