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Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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This is a interesting company to watch in the Gen AI space since they don't have all the same restrictions as the bigger companies. Crazy this took them so long, and also crazy that they got so far through a very confusing Discord experience.

Haha, that was the craziest part about signing on midjourney, when you have to sign up via Discord

I don't use Discord on my office laptop, and that was very odd experience

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Ideogram 2.0 was also released today, and it's nerfed (anatomy is lot worse than 1.0 now) just like StableDiffusion versions after 1.5 which is very disappointing. Well good thing we have Flux out in the open now, both midjourney releasing web version or ideogram releasing there 2.0 on the same day after 2 weeks of flux won't redeem them as much. Flux Dev is amazing, check what SD community is doing with it on https:…

Are there any publicly accessible Flux image generation services you may recommend to check out?

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

#43

This is a interesting company to watch in the Gen AI space since they don't have all the same restrictions as the bigger companies. Crazy this took them so long, and also crazy that they got so far through a very confusing Discord experience.

What do you mean by no restrictions? My account was flagged and under review after using two bold prompts.

The company doesn't have the same restrictions. They're not talking about the ai model.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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I feel like this is an old man yells at cloud moment but I refuse to link social media or google accounts with other services. Why should Google's or Discord's policy dictate my participation in the web?

Because the alternative is pretty provably worse for you, and for them. * You have to save your (hopefully unique!) email/password in a password manager which is effectively contradictory to your "I won't use a cloud service" argument. * The company needs to build out a whole email/password authentication flow, including forgetting your password, resetting your password, hints, rate limiting, etc etc, all things that…

> People have multiple email addresses and as a result wind up forgetting which email address/password they used for a given site.

Effectively you mean that people have multiple Google accounts?

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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post #42

Ideogram 2.0 was also released today, and it's nerfed (anatomy is lot worse than 1.0 now) just like StableDiffusion versions after 1.5 which is very disappointing. Well good thing we have Flux out in the open now, both midjourney releasing web version or ideogram releasing there 2.0 on the same day after 2 weeks of flux won't redeem them as much. Flux Dev is amazing, check what SD community is doing with it on https:…

Are there any publicly accessible Flux image generation services you may recommend to check out?

There are a few.

https://fastflux.ai/ for instant image gen using Schnell (but its fixed on 4 steps and is mainly a tech show off of inference engine by runware.ai)

https://www.segmind.com/ has API support with lots of options, I am using it to generate and set wallpaper using an AHK script. It's very very slow though.

https://replicate.com/black-forest-labs/flux-schnell/example...

https://huggingface.co/spaces/black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schne...

https://getimg.ai/text-to-image

There are other tools now if you Google 'Flux image generator online'

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like this is an old man yells at cloud moment but I refuse to link social media or google accounts with other services. Why should Google's or Discord's policy dictate my participation in the web?

Because the alternative is pretty provably worse for you, and for them. * You have to save your (hopefully unique!) email/password in a password manager which is effectively contradictory to your "I won't use a cloud service" argument. * The company needs to build out a whole email/password authentication flow, including forgetting your password, resetting your password, hints, rate limiting, etc etc, all things that…

All very thoughtful arguments but I think this solution to these problems is flawed. I don't believe we should be solving authentication management problems by handing over all authentication capabilities and responsibilities to one or two mega companies.

Especially since those companies can wield this enormous power by removing my access to this service because I may or may not have violated a policy unrelated to this service.

There has to be a better way.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

#48
Yes, I'm finding the "meh" here is expandable to most of the companies, and that's a great thing (e.g just got a $500 card and OpenHermes feels comparable to anything and it's running fully locally) I know there's often not a lot to be optimistic about, but the fact that so called "AI" is absolutely de-facto free/open source is perhaps just about the best way this stuff could roll out.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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post #42

Ideogram 2.0 was also released today, and it's nerfed (anatomy is lot worse than 1.0 now) just like StableDiffusion versions after 1.5 which is very disappointing. Well good thing we have Flux out in the open now, both midjourney releasing web version or ideogram releasing there 2.0 on the same day after 2 weeks of flux won't redeem them as much. Flux Dev is amazing, check what SD community is doing with it on https:…

Are there any publicly accessible Flux image generation services you may recommend to check out?

Huggingface has quite a few spaces with the base dev model as well as different variations of it.

https://huggingface.co/spaces?sort=trending&search=dev

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