Synthesizing wholly new images is incredible, but as I noted my recent podcast conversation, it may well be that surgical slices of tech like DALL•E will prove to be just as impactful—a la Content-Aware Fill emerging from a thin slice of the PatchMatch paper. In this case,

To fix the image, [Nicholas Sherlock] erased the blurry area of the ladybug’s body and then gave a text prompt that reads “Ladybug on a leaf, focus stacked high-resolution macro photograph.”

A keen eye will note that the bug’s spot pattern has changed, but it’s still the same bug. Pretty amazing.