> Does being easier not influence whether it's better? I mean this in that for many of the ways AI art would be used, MJ already seems to be "good enough" at a

> Does being easier not influence whether it's better? I mean this in that for many of the ways AI art would be used, MJ already seems to be "good enough" at a lot of it. > ... > I'm asking real questions, not making a statement I believe in and just adding a question mark. In my opinion, it is tedious to discuss whether Midjourney or Stable Diffusion is better. Both are tools with their own strengths and weaknesses. Midjourney - Comparable to a ready-made consumer product. - Easy to use and you get excellent results quickly. - The feature set is limited. So you can't influence so well how the result should look like. - Restrictions on what you can generate with it (gore, nudes). - Fee required. Stable Diffusion - Comparable to a development kit. Technical, Difficult to use, different tools that you have to configure and use correctly. - For excellent results you have to invest much more time. - Extensive feature set (inpaining, outpaining, upscaling, ControlNet, many different models, LORAs, textual inversions). You can much better define how the result should look like. - No restrictions on what you can generate. - Free if you install it locally.