DALL-E can generate recognizable pictures of Homer Simpson, Batman and other commercial properties. Such images could easily be considered derivative works of the original copyrighted images that were used as training input. I'm sure there are plenty of corporate IP lawyers ready to argue the point at court.
I'm kind of surprised that no one had found "verbatim copy" cases as were made with GitHub Copilot. Such exact copies in photography are likely easier to go for than with code snippets.
It might be interesting to find an image in the training set with a long, very unique description, and try that exact same description as input in DALL·E 2.
Of course it's unlikely to produce the exact same image, or if it does, you've also discovered an incredible image compression algorithm.
