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The idea of prompt “engineering” strikes me as nonsense. I’ve spent many hours on Midjourney, and it makes some astonishing artworks. But it essentially never m
by jaqalopes 4y ago
The idea of prompt “engineering” strikes me as nonsense. I’ve spent many hours on Midjourney, and it makes some astonishing artworks. But it essentially never makes what you expect. I see that as a feature rather than a bug. Instead of professional prompt engineers who somehow know the precise incantation to generate exactly the picture that’s in your head (they don’t), I think the actual future direction of this business is large numbers of people skimming through thousands of fairly similar images and varying the preferred ones over and over to inch towards the desired output. Of course, all that will be obviated when the AI itself advances by another big step, anyhow.
- pwinnski 4y agoMidJourney is more heavily tuned to produce its "house style" unless you overwhelm it with keywords, and Stable Diffusion and other models are tuned differently. If you ask MidJourney for a "futuristic solder in armor," you'll get... something. If you ask for "Hardmesh retro futurist steampunk fallout 7 6 power armor head, hyper realistic, art gta 5 cover, official fanart behance hd artstation by jesper ejsing, by rhads, makoto shinkai and lois van baarle, ilya kuvshinov, ossdraws, that looks like it is from borderlands and by feng zhu and loish and laurie greasley, victo ngai, andreas rocha, john harris radiating a glowing aura global illumination ray tracing hdr"[0] you'll get something that is less obviously MidJourney. 0. I grabbed that prompt from lexica.art as something work-safe.