In January 2021, the artificial intelligence research lab OpenAI released a limited version of a piece of software called Dall-E. The software allowed users to type in a simple description of an image they had in mind, and after a brief pause, the software provided an almost eerily good interpretation of their proposal, worthy of a hired illustrator or Adobe-savvy designer - but a lot faster and free. Typing in, for example, "a pig with wings flying over the moon illustrated by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry" resulted after a minute or two of processing in something reminiscent of the blotchy but recognizable watercolor brushes of the creator of The Little Prince. AI DALL-E Screenshots About a year later, as the software was released more widely, the internet went wild. Social media has been inundated with all manner of bizarre and wondrous creations, an overflowing hodgepodge of fantasies and artistic sty...