I'm so excited to have a chance to explore DALL-E from OpenAI. They’re slowly opening access to this incredibly powerful tool to various artists and I was selected as an early adopter.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Arthur C. Clarke.

For those that don't know, DALL-E is an AI that creates images from scratch with only a text input.

At first I decided to explore the digital art style:

every query has 10 results so sometimes I’ll pick a few results.

Then I tried something more existential and abstract. I’m really enjoying the “oil painting” aesthetic. It forces DALL-E to be a bit more loose and conceptual.

as a nod to my long time collaborator Andrés Reisinger.

You can also edit existing photos:

this one was mind blowing. discovering the 35mm film aesthetic really opened up a lot of creative output.

….. just wow.

It’s hard to wrap my head around the implications of this. I can imagine that this feels like an existential threat to visual artists, but if we look at technological trends, artists adapt and use these as tools. Perhaps a starting point, or as inspiration.

I can’t wait to see how AI will change my own world of music, for now I get to peek into the mind of such a powerful AI.