How to make AI art: DALL-E mini, AI Dungeon, and more

Not all of us have the talent to whip up a piece of art at a moment's notice. But algorithms using machine learning are learning how to create "AI art" based on text prompts--and you can use them, too. Algorithms like DALL-E (and eventually, DALL-E 2), DALL-E mini, Craiyon, Midjourney, and more are learning how to take publicly available art and learn what makes them art. Or, at least, digest the various elements and style of a photo or artistic work and recombine them into something new. Sure, you can argue whether or not they're, in fact, "art," but the creations are unique, original, and compelling. Simply put, AI art uses a text prompt: something specific like McDonalds at the bottom of the sea, for example, or a bit more generic like the castle of time -- the prompt that generated the art at the top of this story.