Well, so much for that sentiment! Those onion letters definitely struck me as the original "look we can make chairs out of avocados" use case for dall-e. I guess it's not surprising that good looking AI images turn out to not be AI images in the first place.

Source?

He's one of the three named authors on the article. I'd be interested to know how the onion text was made.

Looks like the font predates this article:

https://handmadefont.com/shop/oniotype-font/

https://kottke.org/25/08/the-red-onion-font

The M in that font is not really suitable for professional use

I thought you must be exaggerating, but then I looked... And yeah, that M needs some work to make it not look like a woman bending over.