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I discovered that Midjourney can’t generate a question mark, and if you use the /describe command and give it a picture of a question mark, it hallucinates.

simonw 3y ago
My favourite Midjourney weirdness is what happens if you try to get it to draw you a "horseshoe" (or "horse shoe" - try both).
- lazystar 3y ago
  for those of us in the peanut gallery... what happens?
  - simonw 3y ago
    Things like this: https://gist.github.com/simonw/6a161d4912c0bdb82945b96230265bbf https://gist.github.com/simonw/6a161d4912c0bdb82945b96230265...
    - gochi 3y ago
      That's hilarious! Some of them look like they're trying to create those images on google search where it's a "horse shoe" logo of sorts.
- starshadowx2 3y ago
  Like my comment on question marks, horseshoes are even easier to generate. Check the gallery site and it's full of completely normal ones.
  - simonw 3y ago
    Saying "check the gallery site" would be a lot more useful if you'd link to examples in the gallery site. https://www.midjourney.com/app/search/?search=horse%20shoes https://www.midjourney.com/app/search/?search=horse%20shoes has some - most of them are weird, but a few are OK, like this one: https://www.midjourney.com/app/search/?jobId=7ba6779d-8fde-4be0-ad3f-6d9ba1bdbc9b https://www.midjourney.com/app/search/?jobId=7ba6779d-8fde-4...
    - starshadowx2 3y ago
      "horse shoes" is different than "horseshoe" and will give you different results. I didn't feel like linking a search was useful as only people who had memberships could use and see it, and you were able to do it yourself as shown.
      - simonw 3y ago
        Oh fair enough! I didn't realize the search feature only worked for paying users. TIL.
      - mycall 3y ago
        I tried today for it to draw a horse with pink shoes (or sneakers). Could not do it.
starshadowx2 3y ago
It definitely can, I see a bunch of great examples on the gallery site just by searching up "question mark".
intended 3y ago
midjourney, and I suspect all image generators, can’t imagine scenes without a floor. Ask it to draw -a solar system. - A planet floating in space - A floating city It has to have an in-image observer, who stands on the ground. It also fails with images that display extreme perspective. - A mountain that pierces the sky. - A space elevator.
- fastball 3y ago
  Huh. We seem to be having very different experiences. - A floating city[1] - A planet floating in space[2] - A space elevator[3] [1] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1003683981184737422/1140507911966179390/acnebs_A_floating_city_42a40ad4-cf36-47db-b85f-58166c4c591b.png https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1003683981184737422/1... [2] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1003683981184737422/1140508234600431626/acnebs_A_planet_floating_in_space_905c53ad-96a7-40a1-be8f-c45bce211a67.png https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1003683981184737422/1... [3] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1003683981184737422/1140508707088760833/acnebs_A_space_elevator_1d4d32fd-bac6-4865-80a2-be16956db228.png https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1003683981184737422/1...
  - intended 3y ago
    Nice. It looks like there are still similar issues, but some things have improved. I went through my results to check: 1) Floating city came out much better than my results a month ago. - Prompt: Flying city - https://cdn.midjourney.com/85e254c4-d782-47a5-b63b-db8d20e541b9/grid_0.webp https://cdn.midjourney.com/85e254c4-d782-47a5-b63b-db8d20e54... - Prompt: Flying city in space - https://cdn.midjourney.com/d8b9a582-6056-4fec-a0f2-e939c203a6d4/grid_0.webp https://cdn.midjourney.com/d8b9a582-6056-4fec-a0f2-e939c203a... 2) Planets was 50/50. the top 2 are prime examples of the floor issue. - Prompt: A planet surrounded by the emptiness of space — https://cdn.midjourney.com/35246b1f-b344-4015-972b-512b770c3afe/grid_0.webp https://cdn.midjourney.com/35246b1f-b344-4015-972b-512b770c3... 3)Space elevator, The first image is quite good - prompt: Science fiction space elevator vanishing point in the sky - https://cdn.midjourney.com/0a92bbcf-329a-480d-a0eb-aec368eb718d/grid_0.webp https://cdn.midjourney.com/0a92bbcf-329a-480d-a0eb-aec368eb7... Vanishing points/ perspective dont seem to be grasped, leaving images constrained to certain view distances from observer as well as viewing angles. (I am not sure if those are the correct technical terms to describe the problem). - How do solar systems work for you? Prompt: solar system in space. https://cdn.midjourney.com/3873cdc1-fa9f-4a54-b5d5-c2336aa0804c/grid_0.webp https://cdn.midjourney.com/3873cdc1-fa9f-4a54-b5d5-c2336aa08...
ehsankia 3y ago
the hallucinations is exactly what I enjoy the most about midjourney. If you want a detailed photo of exactly your prompt, I'd probably not use midjourney, but for making weird wonky artistic stuff, it's amazing. Trying to make anything actually visually appealing and artistic with Dall-E and the rest is a pain in the ass.
malaya_zemlya 3y ago
I tried other punctuation marks and MJ can't do them either. Exclamation mark generaties all kinds of vertical objects, comma results in a generic pretty face, and semicolon is ...weird.

simonw 3y ago

My favourite Midjourney weirdness is what happens if you try to get it to draw you a "horseshoe" (or "horse shoe" - try both).

lazystar 3y ago
for those of us in the peanut gallery... what happens?
- simonw 3y ago
  Things like this: https://gist.github.com/simonw/6a161d4912c0bdb82945b96230265bbf https://gist.github.com/simonw/6a161d4912c0bdb82945b96230265...
  - gochi 3y ago
    That's hilarious! Some of them look like they're trying to create those images on google search where it's a "horse shoe" logo of sorts.
starshadowx2 3y ago
Like my comment on question marks, horseshoes are even easier to generate. Check the gallery site and it's full of completely normal ones.
- simonw 3y ago
  Saying "check the gallery site" would be a lot more useful if you'd link to examples in the gallery site. https://www.midjourney.com/app/search/?search=horse%20shoes https://www.midjourney.com/app/search/?search=horse%20shoes has some - most of them are weird, but a few are OK, like this one: https://www.midjourney.com/app/search/?jobId=7ba6779d-8fde-4be0-ad3f-6d9ba1bdbc9b https://www.midjourney.com/app/search/?jobId=7ba6779d-8fde-4...
  - starshadowx2 3y ago
    "horse shoes" is different than "horseshoe" and will give you different results. I didn't feel like linking a search was useful as only people who had memberships could use and see it, and you were able to do it yourself as shown.
    - simonw 3y ago
      Oh fair enough! I didn't realize the search feature only worked for paying users. TIL.
    - mycall 3y ago
      I tried today for it to draw a horse with pink shoes (or sneakers). Could not do it.

starshadowx2 3y ago

It definitely can, I see a bunch of great examples on the gallery site just by searching up "question mark".

intended 3y ago

midjourney, and I suspect all image generators, can’t imagine scenes without a floor. Ask it to draw -a solar system. - A planet floating in space - A floating city It has to have an in-image observer, who stands on the ground. It also fails with images that display extreme perspective. - A mountain that pierces the sky. - A space elevator.

fastball 3y ago
Huh. We seem to be having very different experiences. - A floating city[1] - A planet floating in space[2] - A space elevator[3] [1] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1003683981184737422/1140507911966179390/acnebs_A_floating_city_42a40ad4-cf36-47db-b85f-58166c4c591b.png https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1003683981184737422/1... [2] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1003683981184737422/1140508234600431626/acnebs_A_planet_floating_in_space_905c53ad-96a7-40a1-be8f-c45bce211a67.png https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1003683981184737422/1... [3] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1003683981184737422/1140508707088760833/acnebs_A_space_elevator_1d4d32fd-bac6-4865-80a2-be16956db228.png https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1003683981184737422/1...
- intended 3y ago
  Nice. It looks like there are still similar issues, but some things have improved. I went through my results to check: 1) Floating city came out much better than my results a month ago. - Prompt: Flying city - https://cdn.midjourney.com/85e254c4-d782-47a5-b63b-db8d20e541b9/grid_0.webp https://cdn.midjourney.com/85e254c4-d782-47a5-b63b-db8d20e54... - Prompt: Flying city in space - https://cdn.midjourney.com/d8b9a582-6056-4fec-a0f2-e939c203a6d4/grid_0.webp https://cdn.midjourney.com/d8b9a582-6056-4fec-a0f2-e939c203a... 2) Planets was 50/50. the top 2 are prime examples of the floor issue. - Prompt: A planet surrounded by the emptiness of space — https://cdn.midjourney.com/35246b1f-b344-4015-972b-512b770c3afe/grid_0.webp https://cdn.midjourney.com/35246b1f-b344-4015-972b-512b770c3... 3)Space elevator, The first image is quite good - prompt: Science fiction space elevator vanishing point in the sky - https://cdn.midjourney.com/0a92bbcf-329a-480d-a0eb-aec368eb718d/grid_0.webp https://cdn.midjourney.com/0a92bbcf-329a-480d-a0eb-aec368eb7... Vanishing points/ perspective dont seem to be grasped, leaving images constrained to certain view distances from observer as well as viewing angles. (I am not sure if those are the correct technical terms to describe the problem). - How do solar systems work for you? Prompt: solar system in space. https://cdn.midjourney.com/3873cdc1-fa9f-4a54-b5d5-c2336aa0804c/grid_0.webp https://cdn.midjourney.com/3873cdc1-fa9f-4a54-b5d5-c2336aa08...

ehsankia 3y ago

the hallucinations is exactly what I enjoy the most about midjourney. If you want a detailed photo of exactly your prompt, I'd probably not use midjourney, but for making weird wonky artistic stuff, it's amazing. Trying to make anything actually visually appealing and artistic with Dall-E and the rest is a pain in the ass.

malaya_zemlya 3y ago

I tried other punctuation marks and MJ can't do them either. Exclamation mark generaties all kinds of vertical objects, comma results in a generic pretty face, and semicolon is ...weird.