DALL-E 2 Made Its First Magazine Cover

The group, composed of editors from Cosmopolitan, members of artificial-intelligence research lab OpenAI, and a digital artist--Karen X. Cheng, the first "real-world" person granted access to the computer system they're all using--are working together, with this system, to try to create the world's first magazine cover designed by artificial intelligence. Sure, there have been other stabs. AI has been around since the 1950s, and many publications have experimented with AI-created images as the technology has lurched and leaped forward over the past 70 years. Just last week, The Economist used an AI bot to generate an image for its report on the state of AI technology and featured that image as an inset on its cover. This Cosmo cover is the first attempt to go the whole nine yards. "It looks like Mary Poppins," says Mallory Roynon, creative director of Cosmopolitan, who appears unruffled by the fact that she's directing an algorithm to assist with one of the more important functions of her job.