About whether DALL-E can innovate the way artists like van Gogh did.
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Yes 17 (13%)Not sure 53 (39%)No 65 (48%)
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About whether DALL-E can innovate the way artists like van Gogh did.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Van Gogh was influenced by myriad artists before him.
The Impressionists were influenced by myriad artists before them.
Yes. That's why I'm saying, if you can train an AI exclusively on the stuff that could have influenced van Gogh, and coax it into reinventing van Gogh's work, then I'll believe you've developed an AI that's capable of something like the sort of innovation that van Gogh was.
I'm skeptical that what van Gogh produced can be reduced down to a function of the paintings that preceded him, in the way DALL-E is just a big function of all the images it's been trained on. Humans are "trained" on a lot more than images.