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AI generated, command whatever you want. It will generate mind-blowing images
- arcastroe 4y agoWhat's new or different from existing models like Dall-E?
- skybrian 4y agoThe beta was easier to get into before Dall-E opened up more, and it can be more interesting for generating weird science fiction or fantasy environments.
- abhisekumar 4y agoUser Manual is over here https://github.com/midjourney/docs/blob/main/user-manual.md#parameters-to-imagine https://github.com/midjourney/docs/blob/main/user-manual.md#... I never saw this is kinda staff. May be its future.
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- r_hoods_ghost 4y agoThe output is quite cool, but why on earth have they locked interaction with it away in discord instead of having it available in the web? It basically guarantees that most people won't know about it, won't interact with it, and won't be able to view the results. It's just a deeply weird design decision.
- jackblemming 4y agoTo iterate fast and get something in the hands of users. I can guarantee they want their app on every platform under the sun someday, but things take time.
- r_hoods_ghost 4y agoBut I'm sure this is restricting the number of users who access it as "people who use discord" is a significantly smaller number than "people who use the web".
- bloodyplonker22 4y agoThis is obviously on purpose for the sake of the beta. Compute power is not free.
- cma 4y agoDiscord solves a big problem for them: they are trying to give a limited number of uses to each user. They dont have to create their own proof of human infrastructure since discord already has some weak forms of that with sms verification.
- hosolmaz 4y agoI used to think that way too, but putting it on a social platform has a lot of benefits. New users who don’t know how to write prompts can learn from others and discover new artistic styles and concepts. It brought me up to speed much faster than DALL-E’s web based interface.
- r_hoods_ghost 4y agoFair enough, I guess there's value to the social feedback you get in discord and being able to easily see what others have input.
- stavros 4y agoThere isn't really, the majority of people in the channels are newcomers, it scrolls too fast for you to really see much, and once you subscribe you move to private and only see your own messages anyway. I have no idea why they went to Discord, it hasn't provided any benefit to me personally, at least.
- abhisekumar 4y agoTrue enough. I totally agree with you. without Discord if it will be normal web portal it will be very nice.
- fnordpiglet 4y agoThey have show and tell and prompt training channels. If you only hang out in the newbies channel then yes, it will be newbies.
- tastroder 4y agoI don't know, that might work for some but I would have prefered a webapp with a nice UI instead. I've subscribed for a month but the first time I discovered some of the parameters was just now when someone on HN linked to their docs. Had no idea they even had those. The flow was invite -> public discord channel with other people that don't know about what prompts work well with their model -> run out of free GPU time -> subscribe -> move to private discord message where none of the social aspect matters.
- quelltext 4y agoI for one will wait for secondary sources and if this is so great I might end up creating a Discord account. But not just to check out for myself if it's cool or not.
- catach 4y agoreddit.com/r/deepdream has a lot of Midjourney output.
- matkoniecz 4y agoEasier to rate limit and easier to transition to selling access?
- rebuilder 4y agoThey’re only just coming out of a restricted beta, so having it available to everyone is the opposite of what they were going for , so far. I also read an interview with the CEO where he said they noticed that mostly people don’t know what to ask it to create, so they just input boring prompts (“a dog”) and, I’m guessing, walked away soon after. But together, seeing what others do, they went much further with it.
- olalonde 4y ago> It basically guarantees that most people won't know about it They have close to a million users on their Discord, seems to work out not so bad... But I suppose the real reason was simply to save time and money.
- jvanderbot 4y agoI know, the discord bot is calling a backend. It's not like their GPU-run model is somehow in discord. It's trivial to cross-post results to discord, and provide a web text prompt calling the same backend. More likely, they are hiding from bots that will scrape / crosspost?
- marssaxman 4y agoIt is a strange choice, all right. I had some fun with Wombo, and this looks much more interesting - but I'm not going to go figure out Discord, and potentially have to deal with a bunch of crazy gamer kids, just to try it. Presumably they will make a better interface available as they shift from early testing to productization.
- FranzFerdiNaN 4y agoYou don’t have to figure out Discord or deal with “gamer kids”. You literally need 1 commands to use Midjourney.
- marssaxman 4y agoYou have to figure out Discord well enough that you have an account and know where to type in the commands, don't you? Is Discord not a chat service for gamers, or am I thinking of something else?
- detaro 4y agoIt is, but presumably you have seen a chat application before and thus already know where to type, and can deal with a totally standard website sign-up flow too. I don't like Discord, but it isn't difficult.
- fragmede 4y agoMidjourney users are sectioned off into separate rooms. For me, Discord ran into an updating bug and either they didn’t assign me to a room, or the app failed to surface the room. I had to force quit the app and restart it. I’m not familiar with Discord so I can’t comment if bugs like that are endemic or not but it doesn’t make a good first impression.
- fnordpiglet 4y agoProbably easier for them to handle all the edge cases of a website via discord. I can imagine a situation where I’m focused on my backend and outsource UX to discord. I also think at this point they don’t need every user on earth, so if you can’t climb a gently sloping learning curve then they’ll catch you later - it appears they’re successful enough as it is. Finally I have to say the prompt training and show and tell discord channels are useful and I find a lot of material to help me innovate in the images I create (mostly in support of things I’m doing with my daughter like a lemonade stand logo and illustrations for its menu, etc)
- petercooper 4y agoIt basically guarantees that most people won't know about it, won't interact with it, and won't be able to view the results. That's good for now. It's early days and it's pretty busy already. I don't like Discord much but I'll admit it's a pretty good interface for something like MJ as you can see (and be inspired by) other people's prompts and discuss the process in a live way. The amount of realtime product feedback they are getting is amazing and it's fun watching it from the sidelines. The founder also does live calls on the voice channels where he talks about how things are going - it's a very interesting group experience for a product. I'd argue Discord is great for attracting creative types. The number of HN comments complaining about how complicated Discord is (not yours so much, but the ones where people refuse to even countenance Discord at all) strikes me as odd given my assumption the typical HN user would be a high openness, hacker-ish type keen to try new things.
- joshspankit 4y ago> The number of HN comments complaining about how complicated Discord is (not yours so much, but the ones where people refuse to even countenance Discord at all) strikes me as odd given my assumption the typical HN user would be a high openness, hacker-ish type keen to try new things. I think I could be considered as a high openness, hacker-ish type keen to try new things, and my avoidance of discord isn’t that it’s complicated (hard to use), it’s that it’s complicated (unnecessary busy). From the notifications being a lot of noise by default to threads being so much work to catch up on after the fact, it’s just heavy and dense and complicated. Caveat: It seems much more geared towards users who commit significant brain-space to the subjects they join (for example: catching up on threads is easier if you’re paying attention to realtime notifications), whereas I have a lot of interests and really just want the gems whenever I “sit down” to work with a particular interest.
- cma 4y ago> whereas I have a lot of interests and really just want the gems whenever I “sit down” to work with a particular interest. On larger servers discord has started defaulting to a feed channel summing up all the others and displaying popular messages/subthreads with a facebook/twitter type algorithm.
- ilaksh 4y agoNot true. Daily Dose of Internet mentioned it. Within a few weeks of that they came close to maxing out total Discord users on one server (1 million).
- amelius 4y agoWhere are the mind-blowing images?
- tuxie_ 4y agoI found a couple here: https://github.com/midjourney/docs https://github.com/midjourney/docs
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- abhisekumar 4y agoYou will find it here https://www.midjourney.com/pub/feed/ https://www.midjourney.com/pub/feed/
- abhisekumar 4y agoSee the example in this screen shoot https://snipboard.io/OSq4uG.jpg https://snipboard.io/OSq4uG.jpg
- Lucasoato 4y agoCouldn't use the site, the animation blocked everything :/
- abhisekumar 4y agoYou need to connect discord to make it happent
- vezycash 4y ago> You need to connect discord to make it happen Can you add a telegram option?
- abhisekumar 4y agoIts not possible in telegram, only works in discord. BTW I am not owner ..
- tomp 4y agois there any content on this website related to the submitted title? or just recruitment "we're hiring" spam? impressive advisors, but that's it
- abhisekumar 4y agoJust do Sign in with discord and you will see whats people are making ...
- abhisekumar 4y agoHere is some example of images with code : long dark, alaska, night https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/976997500349186119/1005394307458547722/validolium13_long_dark_alaska_night_276989f2-0a84-432c-b3b9-7799f1fc50f1.png https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/976997500349186119/10... samurai, van gogh, portrait https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/976997500349186119/1005394164621512714/DashIshak_samurai_van_gogh_portrait_454aa21e-643e-416a-86e0-33400da53820.png https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/976997500349186119/10... black girl magic, reghal, cornrows, epic, majesty, warrior https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/976997500349186119/1005391925702041690/donaldkoton_black_girl_magic_reghal_cornrows_epic_majesty_warri_8d45a259-e58a-4e97-870b-b6c74bb21c2d.png https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/976997500349186119/10... temple, heaven, flowers https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/989739808286974002/1005396824389074984/Napat_temple_heaven_flowers_cc70cc53-8137-49cf-8d4a-1fcc8b71f822.png https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/989739808286974002/10...
- addandsubtract 4y agoThe coolest thing about this is seeing the images generated in almost real time. The bot will generate blobs of colors and then iterate to generate more and more details. Very fun to just watch the various feeds.
- abhisekumar 4y agoYeah, you can choose the version, upscale it and enhance it also
- Chirono 4y agoAre there any details on how this works anywhere? It kinda looks like a diffusion model, but using Gaussian blur instead of the Gaussian noise that dall-e etc use.
- abhisekumar 4y agoNeed to find out ..
- mode80 4y agoA web-based alternative https://accomplice.ai/ https://accomplice.ai/
- olalonde 4y agoIf I was an artist, I'd be really scared right now.
- Bolkan 4y agoNah! https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1003491515068321913/1004902702100258816/drippingpenis_omniman_vs_superman_vs_homlander_786b5db9-444a-4c79-9599-d0b30ab52996.png https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1003491515068321913/1... Prompt was omniman vs homelander vs superman
- olalonde 4y agoIt's not perfect but the pace of progress in art generation technology is crazy to me. Nice username by the way.
- TheDudeMan 4y agoMaybe there is not enough existing Omniman/Homelander imagery to draw from.
- Bolkan 4y agoA human artist needs only one.
- anigbrowl 4y agoI'm less than enthused about all these products. Are the results impressive? Very. But it's to the point where they're making a lot of creative endeavors financially worthless, which is eventually going to mean fewer and fewer people develop any of those skills. Cornucopians naturally point to all the many new possibilities and argue that this is a net benefit for humanity, but in general people make such arguments about things they perceive as a net benefit for themselves; with huge ML models you get text, art, music or whatever manufactured on demand, and you get to feel creative in the sense of museum and gallery curators being adjacent to historical or artistic items. The problem is that you can feel like this all day, but you won't be any more able to perform absent the aid of a digital prosthesis. It's very 'don't ask questions, just consume product and get excited for next product.'
- irusensei 4y agoJust let the chat scroll down and you’ll have a free art exhibition. I wonder if there is a way to do this on full screen. Would make a nice (although bandwidth hungry) screensaver of sorts. Also this AI idea of anime style is more akin to a Tony Diterlizzi style than actual anime/manga.
- maskedinvader 4y agoOkay I got to say I have never been both superimpressed with the product and yet confused how sucky it was to get to it. heres what happened 1. I see the post on HN 2. I click it. 3. I read comments, see people discuss why its on discord, and figure worth checking it out since I have discord 4. I had to log in with discord, go to their chat, 5. read the trial support room chat(webpage only had basic $10/month and premium $20/month plans) 6. finally suggesting I use the /imagine prefix to bring up the midjourney bot which will then take a text prompt or multiple prompts to send their ai engine to generate pretty image 7. To test I typed in our sun exploding in a super nova 8. In fractions of seconds the chatbot responded with the image 9. Here is the image ->https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/989268285575008376/1005419341619134539/b10a43bc-a68d-4b30-a39a-4682b82db8b8_progress_image_100.webp https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/989268285575008376/10... 10. I feel I should have gotten to step 9 a lot sooner and they should make it obvious what this can do with a better demo or something 11. super cool, going to play with this rest of the day, thanks HN community
- tomp 4y agoThe image you linked to is “access denied”
- ncmncm 4y agoSoftware equivalent of a supernova, if you squint.
- fragmede 4y agoAgreed. Their competitor using a different model, Craiyon (https://www.craiyon.com/ https://www.craiyon.com/) just has a webpage with a box you type into to get started.
- maskedinvader 4y agohere is the imnage -> https://ibb.co/0KLRScn https://ibb.co/0KLRScn
- smusamashah 4y agoLots of words and statements are censored on midjourney too. The title is kind of incorrect.
- itisit 4y agoImpressive, but mind still intact.
- paranoidrobot 4y ago"Sign in with Discord". No, thanks. If you tie yourself to Discord, or other social media platforms, then I'm out.
- danielbln 4y agoAnd that's ok. I had the same reaction, but after jumping in I made two realization: - this is just like slack, and I already use and don't mind slack - after using Dall-E's webinterface for 3+ months, I actually like the image generation interaction via chat, its history transfers seamlessly between my devices, social feedback is built right in etc.
- smugma 4y agor/midjourney on Reddit to see examples without needing Discord.
- LegitShady 4y ago“Sign in with discord” = “We’re not serious about anything, come back later when we actually want people to use this” Discord is a cancerous black hole on the internet.
- bfung 4y agoIn the app, you type in some words -> bot generates you 4 images to choose, upscale, and have other people vote on. So in a way, leveraging the human feedback to see which image people prefer given the initial word input. On the whole access with discord thing, and objectively going through it: * It's a great way to harvest emails and profiles, similar to using facebook login - but it already has a natural filter to noise. For example, the crypto/NFT space is very on discord. * Being able to use humans to generate these images is a great way to get better resolution on what would be a good NFT signal generator... * The way discord works, it's easier to collect user metrics vs. website & google analytics. Every time the server gets overloaded, you know you hit a user threshold and expand. Pretty smart way of onboarding also -- there are "newbie" chat rooms, free trial chat rooms, and I assume paid chat rooms. No need to build it since using the chatrooms does it for you! (for the record, I don't hold or actually like the crypto space myself - it's an earth warming CAP theorem system that doesn't produce work that can be achieved by other methods)