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Huh, thanks. Seems like a weird moat to hide it behind but I guess they know what they're doing..
by fenomas 4y ago
Huh, thanks. Seems like a weird moat to hide it behind but I guess they know what they're doing..
- GaggiX 4y agoI guess the social aspect makes the community stronger and the fact that you generate images (usually) in public channels is a way to stop most people to generate weird stuff.
- aenvoker 4y agoThis is the reason. Before Midjourney, www.eleuther.ai’s Discord had an image generation channel. There the benefits of generating socially were made obvious. People help each other, learn from each other, riff off each other. It accelerated technique evolution tremendously. Midjourney is a small team. They are working on a web interface. But, won’t release it until it is significantly better than all the benefits they get from Discord. Meanwhile, they’ve been too busy making quality improvements and scaling the service to keep up with demand.
- nerdponx 4y agoA Discord server is a lot easier to moderate, block people, etc. than an HTTP API with access tokens. Plus then you have a sort of captive audience of Discord community members that receive all of your notifications by default.