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Generating an image from a written description, or prompt. Models such as DALL-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion made it widely available in 2022.
Artists Ryan Murdock and Katherine Crowson started combining GANs with other technologies like CLIP to create the very first openly available text-to-image models. So they were very artist-driven.
Peter Bauman, Ian Goodfellow on Inventing GANs
Photography is a clear example. It seemed to automate what an artist does, making pictures. It's just pressing a button, which is exactly the same thing people said about the first text-to-image systems.
Aaron Hertzmann, Aaron Hertzmann on Caring about People