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Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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Post by vunderba »

minimaxir wrote: post #40
indigodaddy wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

where can we try/use? Is it just the obvious google result of https://getimg.ai/models/flux ?

Replicate, although not fully free, has the bonus of outputs from Flux (from their endpoints only) able to be used for commercial purposes whereas that is normally only applicable for Flux schnell: https://replicate.com/black-forest-labs/flux-dev https://replicate.com/black-forest-labs/flux-schnell

Are you sure that's true?

https://github.com/black-forest-labs/flux/blob/main/model_li...

From the license: "We claim no ownership rights in and to the Outputs. You are solely responsible for the Outputs you generate and their subsequent uses in accordance with this License. You may use Output for any purpose (including for commercial purposes), except as expressly prohibited herein. You may not use the Output to train, fine-tune or distill a model that is competitive with the FLUX.1 [dev] Model."

This license seems to indicate that the images from the dev model CAN be used for commercial purposes outside of using those images to train derivative models. It would be a little weird to me that they'd allow you to use FluxDev images for commercial purposes IF AND ONLY IF the model host was Replicate.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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Post by vunderba »

wmf wrote: post #76
jiggawatts wrote: post #62

It's just astonishing to me how difficult it still seems to be for the Midjourney team to develop a web site that amounts to little more than a textbox, a button, and an img tag. I tried their new web experience, and... it's just broken. It doesn't work. There's a showcase of other people's work, and that's it. I can't click the text-box, it's greyed out. It says "subscribe to start creating", but there's is no "subs…

There's a theory that Midjourney didn't want to pay for image hosting (which they were getting for free from Discord).

That must have been a LOOONNG time ago, I've been a user of MJ since ~version 3 a couple years back - and I remember custom scraping my images way back in the day and they were coming from Google Cloud Storage, e.g.

https://storage.googleapis.com/dream-machines-output/378f0f1...

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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Post by paretoer »

resource_waste wrote: post #29
deisteve wrote: post #10

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.

That is the base style. You can get much different image qualities adding different types of film, cameras, etc to the prompt.

With that said, I loved Midjourney a year ago but I am at the point I have seen enough AI art to last several lives.

AI art reminds me of eating wasabi. It is absolutely amazing at first but I quickly get totally sick of it.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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Post by cabbageicefruit »

stemlord wrote: post #97
cabbageicefruit wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Pretending that someone can’t use your software because they don’t want to create a login through your providers is idiotic.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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Post by iJohnDoe »

smusamashah wrote: post #38

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:…

Was heavily using StableDiffusion a handful of months ago. Seemed like new achievements were being made all the time.

What happened with 1.5 and newer? I’m out of the loop.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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Post by rajamaka »

stemlord wrote: post #97
cabbageicefruit wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Can you explain the difference between creating an anonymous google account with fake information compared to an anonymous midjourney account with fake information?

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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Post by crooked-v »

vunderba wrote: post #95
smusamashah wrote: post #38

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.

Also to 'understand' complicated prompts (however far that goes when talking image models). For example, describing two subjects in detail with a relationship between them ("a cat and a man and the cat is standing on the man's head and the cat has red hair and the man is wearing purple glasses") reliably works with Flux, even the 'light' models, but is a crapshoot with SD.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

ethanpil wrote: post #103
smusamashah wrote: post #38

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:…

Why are they getting worse?

People who don’t use them are using their hobby of being offended to pressure the model makers to censor.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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Post by seoulmetro »

stemlord wrote: post #96
SoftMachine wrote: post #25

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

I truly thought the title meant they are no longer tied to discord. Excited me for a minute

Yep. "Web experience" made me think there was an actual website experience. There still isn't a web experience and it's still not open to everyone. lol

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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Post by wordofx »

pizzathyme wrote: post #3

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.

> space since they don't have all the same restrictions as the bigger companies.

Can you give an example? Midjourney is heavily censored so it seems like it has a lot of restrictions.

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