[aetherson]

I don't think that Dall-E as it currently exists is a big threat to professional artists.

It's not super hard to imagine a noticeably improved version of Dall-E being a serious threat to professional artists, though. It's a question of how hard it will be to make some linear improvements to Dall-E.

As a side note, I created an image in MidJourney from a prompt, which got a fairly pretty image that had some serious facial asymmetry problems, then uploaded the image to Dall-E and erased half the face, letting Dall-E fill it back in with a much more symmetrical look, and that kinda felt like the future. Using various AI models as tools for the things they do best.