DALL-E 2 and Objective Art (2022) Ario Elami October 3, 2022 …a hindsight-obvious yet crucially important distinction of AI-made images, like those of DALL-E 2, is that the machine can never refuse a request; it can only acquiesce and then approximate. The curatorial aspect of production solely involves what’s to be found in the bank of images. In a strange and unprecedented way, it represents “objective art.”