In the case of machine-learning models like DALL-E mini, there are numerous stakeholders to account for when considering who should get credit for creating a piece of art.

The viral image generation app is good, absurd fun. It's also giving the world an education in how artificial intelligence and machine learning may maliciously warp reality.

Examples of the kind of CAPTCHAs that image-recognition bots can now get past 100 percent of the time. Credit: Arxiv, Plesner et al.