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Midjourney 6 Means the End for a Big Chunk of the Photo Industry

16 points by hexage1814 3y ago

ijhuygft776 3y ago
thanks for posting the archived link.
- TriangleEdge 3y ago
  I'm not able to get past the captcha for these archive links. I am using Firefox. Anyone else?
  - bodantogat 3y ago
    Same here. running FF with uBlock Origin. On Chrome half my page filled with ads :(
  - xnx 3y ago
    One workaround is to change your DNS server from 1.1.1.1 to another like 8.8.8.8
    - upon_drumhead 3y ago
      I’m on quad eight and I’m still getting the infinite loop :(
  - ijhuygft776 3y ago
    I'm using Firefox and didn't get any captcha... maybe its not the best archive, but its still better than Medium
  - gwern 3y ago
    It's frustrating because Archive.is/today keeps doing this. Some sort of fight with Cloudflare, who cares about the details - it sucks. A few weeks ago it suddenly started working again on Firefox, and it was great! I wake up today and try the Matt Levine post and... back to the fake infinite looping.
- dang 3y ago
  Sorry, but on HN we don't allow top-level archive links unless it's the only way to read the article. Otherwise it's important for the original domain to show at the top. Archive links are welcome in the comments of course.
  - ijhuygft776 3y ago
    is that why you made my comment auto-collapse? gotta love dark patterns..........................................
  - ijhuygft776 3y ago
    Could you at least automate the posting of an archived link for paywalls, PLEASE.
dumpsterlid 3y ago
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strict9 3y ago
It will probably go that way due to friction and cost but not a great development. AI generated images in a news article or long form essay are incredibly distracting and do not add value. Not a fan of experiencing the uncanny valley when I just want to read text.
- candiodari 3y ago
  As opposed to real pictures that have nothing to do with the article like we have now? Right now the pictures in the vast majority of news articles, including most in print, are actively misleading. One hopes, with AI pictures they'll go through the trouble of using a prompt related to the article ...
- ricc 3y ago
  > AI generated images in a news article or long form essay are incredibly distracting I think most people will or can get used to them pretty fast. And if you've seen the images that Midjourney v6 can produce, some of these are already beyond the uncanny valley.
- MattPalmer1086 3y ago
  I see a lot of posts saying they dislike this, but I quite like them. Maybe it's just the novelty, but I enjoy the relevant but slightly odd pictures along with the text.
gwern 3y ago
> While the background of the V5.1 image looked like Hogwarts, the V6 image has a tasteful, blurred background of hefty-looking lawbooks. If this image was in the brochure for a law school, we’d probably feel compelled to go there. > > In fact, that’s exactly what I’ve discovered in my own experiments with using Midjourney V6 images in advertising campaigns. Midjourney’s aspirational images of people convert better than images of real people. Customers can’t get enough of them.
dang 3y ago
Url changed from http://archive.today/2024.01.23-103715/https://medium.com/the-generator/midjourney-6-means-the-end-for-a-big-chunk-of-the-photo-industry-068cb5faeddc http://archive.today/2024.01.23-103715/https://medium.com/th..., which points to this. Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html It's fine to post archive links in the comments, but not at the top level, unless of course the article really doesn't exist on the web anymore.
- ijhuygft776 3y ago
  @dang, would you be mad if someone automated posting links to archives in the comments for paywalls? if seems like such a waste of time.
  - dang 3y ago
    We don't allow bots* or generated comments on HN. * other than https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring
leeeeeepw 3y ago
And there are other cheaper AI art generators too like ebank.nz doing unlimited plans
telotortium 3y ago
I mean, it's definitely better - at least the hands have the right number of fingers. However, these don't quite strike me as realistic photos, but rather as high-quality renderings. Also, in the lawyer picture, the foreground looks inappropriately blurred - it looks like it has a narrow depth of field, but the hands would almost never be out of focus in a photo like this. The background looks more like a stylized image of our of focus library shelves than what actual out of focus shelves would look. For filler stock photos, these might do, but I believe they would make your website look cheap

16 points by hexage1814 3y ago

ijhuygft776 3y ago

thanks for posting the archived link.

TriangleEdge 3y ago
I'm not able to get past the captcha for these archive links. I am using Firefox. Anyone else?
- bodantogat 3y ago
  Same here. running FF with uBlock Origin. On Chrome half my page filled with ads :(
- xnx 3y ago
  One workaround is to change your DNS server from 1.1.1.1 to another like 8.8.8.8
  - upon_drumhead 3y ago
    I’m on quad eight and I’m still getting the infinite loop :(
- ijhuygft776 3y ago
  I'm using Firefox and didn't get any captcha... maybe its not the best archive, but its still better than Medium
- gwern 3y ago
  It's frustrating because Archive.is/today keeps doing this. Some sort of fight with Cloudflare, who cares about the details - it sucks. A few weeks ago it suddenly started working again on Firefox, and it was great! I wake up today and try the Matt Levine post and... back to the fake infinite looping.
dang 3y ago
Sorry, but on HN we don't allow top-level archive links unless it's the only way to read the article. Otherwise it's important for the original domain to show at the top. Archive links are welcome in the comments of course.
- ijhuygft776 3y ago
  is that why you made my comment auto-collapse? gotta love dark patterns..........................................
- ijhuygft776 3y ago
  Could you at least automate the posting of an archived link for paywalls, PLEASE.

dumpsterlid 3y ago

[dead]

strict9 3y ago

It will probably go that way due to friction and cost but not a great development. AI generated images in a news article or long form essay are incredibly distracting and do not add value. Not a fan of experiencing the uncanny valley when I just want to read text.

candiodari 3y ago
As opposed to real pictures that have nothing to do with the article like we have now? Right now the pictures in the vast majority of news articles, including most in print, are actively misleading. One hopes, with AI pictures they'll go through the trouble of using a prompt related to the article ...
ricc 3y ago
> AI generated images in a news article or long form essay are incredibly distracting I think most people will or can get used to them pretty fast. And if you've seen the images that Midjourney v6 can produce, some of these are already beyond the uncanny valley.
MattPalmer1086 3y ago
I see a lot of posts saying they dislike this, but I quite like them. Maybe it's just the novelty, but I enjoy the relevant but slightly odd pictures along with the text.

gwern 3y ago

> While the background of the V5.1 image looked like Hogwarts, the V6 image has a tasteful, blurred background of hefty-looking lawbooks. If this image was in the brochure for a law school, we’d probably feel compelled to go there. > > In fact, that’s exactly what I’ve discovered in my own experiments with using Midjourney V6 images in advertising campaigns. Midjourney’s aspirational images of people convert better than images of real people. Customers can’t get enough of them.

dang 3y ago

Url changed from http://archive.today/2024.01.23-103715/https://medium.com/the-generator/midjourney-6-means-the-end-for-a-big-chunk-of-the-photo-industry-068cb5faeddc http://archive.today/2024.01.23-103715/https://medium.com/th..., which points to this. Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html It's fine to post archive links in the comments, but not at the top level, unless of course the article really doesn't exist on the web anymore.

ijhuygft776 3y ago
@dang, would you be mad if someone automated posting links to archives in the comments for paywalls? if seems like such a waste of time.
- dang 3y ago
  We don't allow bots* or generated comments on HN. * other than https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring

leeeeeepw 3y ago

And there are other cheaper AI art generators too like ebank.nz doing unlimited plans

telotortium 3y ago

I mean, it's definitely better - at least the hands have the right number of fingers. However, these don't quite strike me as realistic photos, but rather as high-quality renderings. Also, in the lawyer picture, the foreground looks inappropriately blurred - it looks like it has a narrow depth of field, but the hands would almost never be out of focus in a photo like this. The background looks more like a stylized image of our of focus library shelves than what actual out of focus shelves would look. For filler stock photos, these might do, but I believe they would make your website look cheap