October 2022

October 2022 is defined by DALL-E's rapid democratization — going free, integrating with Microsoft Bing, and embedding into Office 365 — alongside growing awareness of the hidden human labor behind 'miracle AI', with Appen workers speaking out about exploitative data labelling conditions. Security research deepens around prompt injection vulnerabilities and imperceptible backdoors in neural networks, while NIST moves to establish a trustworthy AI resource center, reflecting early regulatory intent. The parallel tracks of capability expansion and accountability debate are in full tension, with AI stock imagery challenging visual authenticity standards and Imagic-style diffusion editing opening new creative possibilities under increasingly contested ethical ground.