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AI made it possible to create a picture of almost anything in 2022

The rapid rise of text-to-image generators powered by artificial intelligence has thrilled some people, but left others concerned for the future of art

By Matthew Sparkes

27 December 2022

AI generated art

We asked DALL-E 2 to generate ‘An oil painting of a tabby cat reading 91av magazine on the train’

91av, generated by DALL-E 2

Artificial intelligence continued to make great strides in a variety of fields in 2022, but perhaps one of the biggest shocks was the emergence of AI models that can generate photorealistic images from a simple text description.

β€œIt was totally unexpected, I would say, at the end of 2021. Unexpectedly mind-blowing,” says Thomas Wolf, co-founder of , a website that allows people to share AI code and data sets.

Before 2022, these text-to-image…

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