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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Technology
Josh Taylor

From Trump Nevermind babies to deep fakes: DALL-E and the ethics of AI art

AI image generation of Donald Trump as the baby from Nirvana’s Nevermind album cover
An AI image generation of Donald Trump as the baby from the Nevermind album cover. Photograph: DALL-E mini on Hugging space

Want to see a picture of Jesus Christ laughing at a meme on his phone, Donald Trump as the Nevermind baby, or Karl Marx being slimed at the Nikelodeon Kid’s Choice awards?

If you’ve been on Twitter or Instagram in the past couple of weeks, it’s been hard to miss odd-looking formulations of these kinds of scenarios in the form of AI art.

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