Recently, a man used the AI image generator Midjourney to enter a fine arts contest for the Colorado State Fair under the "Digital Arts/Digitally-Manipulated Photography" category. His piece won the top prize, sparking conversation from artists about the validity of AI in art. Many have flocked to AIs like Midjourney and DALL-E 2, which are designed to create illustrations from simple, one-sentence prompts, for their low-effort input and high-quality output. DALL-E 2 can "create realistic images and art from a description in natural language." The program, along with Midjourney and other image generation AI like Stable Diffusion, dominated internet searches for months.