At the other end of the spectrum, I've found what might be the dumbest use of this technology: generating an image of a thing that was described (but not captured) in a TikTok video, and then using it as the lead image in a news article summarizing the TikTok.
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(I'm not going to link to the article, because I don't think they deserve to be rewarded for this.)
That beeple image is pretty great. I didn't know these took that long to create--I thought it was more or less instant.