WHEN OPENAI REVEALED CHATGPT in late 2022, people clambered to test it. They asked complicated, open-ended questions, requested long-form narrative, and often got impressive results. Not even four months later, the company released GPT-4, the next generation of its AI software, which can respond to both image and text inputs and more nuanced instructions.
Even before ChatGPT came along, text-to-image generators like Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion and OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 stunned people by responding to written prompts with photorealistic images. ‘Two kangaroos waltzing in the style of Monet’ would get you pretty much that. Not surprisingly, arguments over the ethics of mimicking artists’ styles, legal risks and the impact on people’s livelihoods have flared.
While the impact on the art industry is clear, many leaders in other fields continue to…
