Meet Dall-E Mini, the Viral AI Image Tool Fueling Twitter's Nightmares – CNET

On the internet, nightmare fuel just about everywhere you look. The latest source: Dall-E Mini, an AI tool capturing attention on social media thanks to the weird, funny and occasionally disturbing images it creates out of text prompts.Batman surfing. Erin Carson/Dall-E Mini Dall-E Mini lets you type a short phrase describing an image, one that theoretically exists only in the deep recesses of your soul, and within a few seconds, the algorithm will manifest that image onto your screen. Odds are you’ve seen some Dall-E Mini images popping up in your social media feeds as people think of the wildest prompts they can — perhaps it’s Jon Hamm eating ham, or Yoda robbing a convenience store. This isn’t the first time art and artificial intelligence have captured the internet’s attention. There’s a certain appeal to seeing how an algorithm tackles something as subjective as art. In 2016, for example, actor Thomas Middleditch made a short film based on a script written by an algorithm. Google has produced more than a few tools tying art and AI together. In 2018, its Arts & Culture app let users find their doppelgangers in famous paintings. Or Google’s AutoDraw will figure out what you’re trying to…
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