As an artist I am concerned about AI image generation

Can I get an "Amen, Brother"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen_break

Not saying AI/ML won't be damaging and cause negative effects, just pointing out that other uncompensated prior art has been used to create transformative works before we ever had DALL-E.

Yeah sampling and remixing are actually extremely similar to one aspect of DALL-E's overall system. Sure its more technically impressive but from a HCI point of view you are really just sampling via text based input all be it with much more complexity and control over the synthesis parameters.