As an artist I am concerned about AI image generation

I'm watching an artist play with DALL-E for the past few days; it's proving to be a useful tool for inspiring concepts and leading her to her own visualizations and execution of things that she had not gotten to "gel" previously.

I can recall a little bit of the fuss at the beginning of digital art, "is that even real art?" I don't think this fuss has as much to stand on. It's a tool for making art; whether it's really art or not is a judgement only the individual viewer can make.

That's a good point. In a way DALL-E just shifts the burden of creativity on to how someone can come up with and idea and translate that into written language.