They are also being deceptive in my opinion. They should show their entire chat because if you take "animated sponge", it alone does not generate SpongeBob. The author almost certainly further prodded & guided the DALL-E to generate those images.

The author, I believe, is being purposefully deceptive and hoping people who don't use DALL-E see "animated sponge" generating a SpongeBob look-alike and think they should be burned.

Woah this is really moving the goalposts and is pretty disingenuous. When I responded to your prompt about GPT being bad at reproducing copyrighted material with a counter example where it appears to in fact be good at it, you tell me that I must reproduce a specific image as easily as “clicking download image.”

Not what I was arguing and you’re not going to win many arguments with anyone who is paying attending by coming out of left field with only tangentially related demands.

Because nobody wants generic random pieces of copyrighted material. They want a specific piece of copyrighted material and generative ai is terrible at producing that. It's you who is being intentionally obtuse in pretending not to know the actual goal of copyright infringement.