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Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

#131

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?

Because they don’t like the fact that the majority of custom content for uncensored models is hardcore porn.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

#132

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

Can everyone have a Google is Discord account?

Can everyone have a Google or* Discord account?

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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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

No, it doesn't. you need to register for chatgpt.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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Chatgpt does it

No, it doesn't. you need to register for chatgpt.

go try it right now lol

i assume they still have ip/browser fingerprint based rate limiting, but you can type in a prompt and get an answer with zero login or anything else.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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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.

No no, I understand that it's not a viable financial option, I just don't understand that anyone would trust any of these companies with any sort of information.

Most of the current AI companies are going to fail or get bought up, so you have no idea where that account information, all your prompts and all the answers will eventually go. After social media, I don't really see any reason why anyone would trust any tech company with any sort of information, unless you really really have to. If I want to run an LLM, then I'll get one that can run on my own computer, even if that mean forgoing certain features.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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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)).

Claims that quantization doesn’t hurt models are made all the time but rely on the fact that almost all evaluations today of LLMs hardly scratch their surface. If we evaluated LLMs properly, even large quants would be detectably worse, and by a significant amount.

Not saying I disagree with you. But you don't present any evaluation results for your claim either.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

#140

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.

Maybe they got so far thanks to the Discord approach.

When you went to the Discord, you immediately got the endless stream of great looking stuff other people were generating. This was quite powerful way to show what is possible.

I bet one challenge for getting new users engaged with these tools is that you try to generate something, get bad results, get disappointed and never come back.

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