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Midjourney is higher quality by a fair bit, from my personal experience and from being near a few of the top early AI artists for a good little while.
by tysam_and 3y ago
Midjourney is higher quality by a fair bit, from my personal experience and from being near a few of the top early AI artists for a good little while.
- Workaccount2 3y agoIs midjourneys model actually better? I was under the impression that midjourney was just running a form of SD and it's real secret sauce are the peripheral prompts it injects on the backend along with your prompts. I could be totally off the mark here.
- jaxboxer 3y agoTo me it is like saying oil is better than acrylics. These statements have no meaning when it comes to art.
- famouswaffles 3y agoThe model is obviously massively better. and they haven't been using SD in any form since the test mode of v3. the models are trained from scratch.
- sixothree 3y agoIs midjourney still using discord as its primary user interface? That really turned me off.
- chefandy 3y agoYes-- a classmate uses it. They do @everyone announces in their server every day, and while you can mute actual notifications, it still adds one to your badge count. My attention is too valuable-- that would get me to cancel my subscription.
- sixothree 3y agoWhen I used it, it didn't feel like a product. It felt like a demo. If I have to rely on some bot in a public forum, I'm not sure I like this product.
- Sohcahtoa82 3y agoI've operated on the assumption that MidJourney is deliberately knee-capping their growth by making it only work on Discord to ensure they don't grow faster than they can add hardware. I could be entirely wrong, though. Maybe the person making that decision is just an idiot. I have an IRC bot that has triggers for DALL-E, GPT3, and ChatGPT. I really want to make one for MidJourney, and I would happily pay MJ for the privilege. But I can't. Not without breaking some rules.
- tysam_and 3y agoThey have a <10 person team IIRC, using Discord as an interface saves a TON of money/effort/maintenance/risk, etc, as best as I understand, and lets them focus on the technical product. Remember, Discord is giving them free content legal protection by proxy, even if that's not necessarily the original intended effect I think. There's a lot to gain by riding alongside Discord as a primary interface vehicle, I personally believe. They're good enough technically at what they do that their audience is okay with the interface that they have to use, I'd reckon (I've heard similar beefs about the UI stuff though, so it sorta makes sense).
- aix1 3y ago> Discord is giving them free content legal protection by proxy Would you mind explaining what you mean by that? Thanks!
- anticensor 3y agoDiscord does not have its own data centres, It would be hard for them to provide such a guarantee.
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- lukebitts 3y agoMJ edits your prompts, you can achieve the same level of quality if you use the same prompts they do (which can be found on the internet)
- cubefox 3y agoThey edit your prompt ... how?
- lukebitts 3y agoBy adding keywords to the prompt and to the negative prompt
- cubefox 3y agoCan you give me an example? What are those keywords? This sounds a bit like Dall-E 2, where OpenAI appears to manipulate certain queries involving women to make them black.
- lukebitts 3y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/y649yn/prompts_modifiers_to_get_midjourney_style_in/ https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/y649yn/pro... Nothing so… social
- cubefox 3y agoOkay, though this seems to be someone who tries to imitate Midjourney using Stable Diffusion, so it is still not quite clear how Midjourney does it. Though it seems plausible that they would "cheat" in this matter in order to get something more artsy looking. (But what if you don't want something artsy, or not artsy in their style?)
- lukebitts 3y agoThats the value proposition of MJ I guess. Its easier to get something good out of a simple prompt, but you end up with a recognizable MJ look