Yesterday Marked the Death of Art as an Industry

On March 6th, 2022, OpenAI released DALL-E 2: their "new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language". I don't say this lightly: this new AI system is not just on-par with human artists. It is definitively better than humans in almost every sense of the word. The model has access to hundreds of thousands of distinct art styles, has a keen understanding of context, and can create incredible works in under fifteen seconds that would have otherwise taken a human days or weeks. This is not an exaggeration.