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Post by user_7832 »

Der_Einzige wrote: post #131
ethanpil wrote: post #103

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Why are they getting worse?

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

Which honestly is rather silly for the companies making the models. The cat's already out of the bag, and if a competitor manages to make a similar/good-enough (uncensored) model there's nothing midjourney etc will have going for them.

Or as someone once said, if they took porn off the internet, there'd only be one website left, and it'd be called "Bring Back the Porn!".

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Post by stonogo »

rajamaka wrote: post #116
stemlord wrote: post #97

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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?

Creating fake accounts violates Google's terms of service.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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Post by smusamashah »

iJohnDoe wrote: post #115
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.

SD 1.5 was not censored. Later version were trained with the the censored data. A side of that was bad anatomy. Search for stable diffusion woman lying on grass. I think this was SD3. It generates monstrosities when you ask for a woman on grass.

I liked ideogram's approach. It looked like their training data was not censored as much (it still didn't render privates). The generated images are checked are tested for nudity before presenting to user, if found, image is replaced by a placeholder.

If you check SD reddit, community seems to have jumped ship to flux. It has great prompt adherence. You don't have to employ silly tricks to get what you want. Ideogram also has amazing prompt adherence.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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Post by smusamashah »

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.

I hadn't seen Realism Engine, looks good. Check Boreal FD https://civitai.com/models/639937?modelVersionId=715729 for the kind of casual photography realism I was talking about. I don't remember seeing that quality with SD.

Also see https://civitai.com/models/652699/amateur-photography-flux-d...

and

https://civitai.com/models/660731/35mm-photo-flux

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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Post by ffsm8 »

lofenfew wrote: post #134
ffsm8 wrote: post #133

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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.

I'm prompted for a login/register. You're likely authenticating via Apple or Google social auth

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Post by latexr »

rajamaka wrote: post #116
stemlord wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Google accounts require a phone number. How do you reliably fake that internationally without risking your money on some shady service?

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Post by latexr »

geor9e wrote: post #101
SoftMachine wrote: post #25

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

Touché. But it's certainly leagues more "everyone" today than it was yesterday. It used to require arcane knowledge of deep Discord server bot navigation. I gave up after 20 minutes and never figured it out. Today I tried it in seconds. I have about 40+ google accounts for reasons, so I don't begin to understand the aversion some have to registering a burner google/discord/facebook/etc account under their hampster's…

> I don't begin to understand the aversion some have to registering a burner google/discord/Facebook/etc

Maybe because several of those tend to ask for phone verification nowadays, and phone burner services tend to either not work or look so shady it looks like a major gamble to give them any payment information?

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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Post by latexr »

KolmogorovComp wrote: post #60
mdp2021 wrote: post #58

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Does not google require a telephone number to create accounts nowadays? In some regions there are no anonymous SIM cards by law. (Temporary number services may not work well.)

Midjourney is a paid-only service anyway, you would need to enter your credit card, so no anonymity.

It is very much possible to create temporary credit cards linked to your real bank account for one-off purchases. Apple Card provides that as a service (US only) and other countries have similar systems that every bank adheres to.

Plus, you may not mind not being anonymous to Midjourney but mind not being anonymous to some other service (like Google).

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