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Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

#91

Haven't used Midjourney since Flux dropped

MJ has always been this pixar-style-hyperfit SD variant. It almost seemed to just repeat google images but with gloss. Or at least a year ago it was like that.

Here's a project I did over a year ago in Midjourney where I took all art for the card game Spectromancer and re-themed each piece in 26 different styles

https://kellydornhaus.github.io/Variations/

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

#92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you have a suitably powerful M-Mac or iOS device, you can run it locally using "Draw Things", which is free.

Just to clarify for other readers, Draw Things has support and provides download links to quants but no iOS device can run the full precision model which means you will get slightly different and usually lower quality output than stuff you may see elsewhere, even if you use the same settings. It's still damn impressive though.

Quality issue should be mainly due to using FP16 accmulators for GEMM in M1-M2, A14-A16 devices (it is not a problem for SD v1 / SDXL models due to smaller channel count). This is changed to FP32 accmulators for GEMM in these devices with 1.20240820.1 release. q8p should have comparable quality to non-quantized models (in Draw Things, it is called FLUX.1 [dev] (Exact)).

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

#93

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 was the confusing Discord experience? Was it that Discord was the main way to access Midjourney, and it was chaotic? I vaguely remember this, but didn't spend much time there.

The very fact that it was on discord in the first place was enough for me.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

#94
Ever since DALL-E 3 completely eclipsed Midjourney in terms of Prompt ADHERENCE (albeit not quality), I've had very little reason to make use of it. However, in my testing of Flux Dev, I can gen images in roughly 15 seconds in Forge, throw those at a SDXL model such as Dreamshaper in the form of a controlnet and get the best of both worlds, high detail and adherent.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

#95

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:…

While I won't say that realism is a solved problem, SD has been able to produce unbelievably realistic photo-level images using "Realism Engine"/NightVisionXL/etc for a while now.

Flux's power isn't necessarily in its ability to produce realistic images, so much as its increased size gives it a FAR superior ability to more closely follow the prompt.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

#97

Open to everyone, but you must have Google or Discord account. Has the definition of everyone changed?

Open to everyone, but requires a computer. Has the definition of everyone changed?

Equating participating in walled garden social platforms to simply having a computer is bleak

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

#98
post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I understand that they might need some account or token to stop abuse, just having my sign in is a big no for anything I just want to try out. After the whole social media trend more or less collapsed into a privacy invading data collection nightmare, I've been extremely reluctant to sign up for anything.

You honestly think giving full, no rate limited free access is viable in the LLM space, where each execution is actually pretty expensive? Because that's what you're asking for, as it'd be trivial to reset the rate without accounts.

Chatgpt does it

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

#100

And it still can't draw a spork yet [1] 1: https://canaidrawasporkyet.org/

MJ can't do it, but took me 10 seconds genning locally on an SDXL checkpoint:

https://gondolaprime.pw/pictures/sporks-generative.jpg

It's a rather arbitrary metric. All it proves is that the token "spork" wasn't in midjourney's training data. A FAR better test for adherence is how well a model does when a detailed description for an untrained concept is provided as the prompt.

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