I’ve been drawing all my life but I never have been or will be as talented as DALL-E. OpenAI’s image generator, which crafts wild, realistic, and impressive illustrations based on text-based input, is so talented – though I’m sure it doesn’t know it or demurely blushes and says, “I’m not that great” – that it’s already created a professional magazine cover (opens in new tab). My drawing career, which started with crayons and pencils, graduated to fountain pens and inks, and then later transitioned to the endlessly editable digital medium of the PC and iPad, has never been an occupation in the truest sense.
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