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Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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Post by latexr »

kgraves wrote: post #67

I'm so glad that Midjourney and Flux is making creativity accessible to everyone, I don't need to have a subscription to MJ anymore now that Flux is getting better. Everybody can now be an artist and have creativity for free now. What a time to be alive.

Creativity has always been accessible to everyone. Creativity is a concept which only requires imagination. Those ideas can take many forms, including writing, cooking, sewing, doing skateboard tricks… It doesn’t mean rearranging pixels on screen by vaguely describing something.

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Post by juped »

seattle_spring wrote: post #123
wordofx wrote: post #120

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> 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.

What are some examples of behaviors that would exemplify their heavy censorship?

try generating with the prompt "a spoony bard and a licentious howler", if you're willing to catch a ban for using ted woolsey's horrible, offensive language that was acceptable to 1990s nintendo of america

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Post by taude »

latexr wrote: post #148
taude wrote: post #126

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why do you need a phone number for a google account?

Because Google asks for it to let you register.

Really? Wow. I have like 20 gmail accounts. I guess I got them before they started requiring phone numbers.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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Post by latexr »

taude wrote: post #153
latexr wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because Google asks for it to let you register.

Really? Wow. I have like 20 gmail accounts. I guess I got them before they started requiring phone numbers.

Do you use all 20 regularly? Because if you don’t, there’s a chance that next time you try to login to one of them on the web they’ll ask you to add a phone number and not let you continue until you do. But if you have them setup in an email client, it should still work.

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Post by paulcjh »

arizen wrote: post #42
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:…

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

We're one of the Black Forest Labs partners, you can try the models here: https://www.mystic.ai/black-forest-labs

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Post by MarcoZavala »

matsemann wrote: post #37
rambojohnson wrote: post #35

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what do you mean they don't have restrictions?

Google, Facebook, Microsoft etc all have to shoehorn these things into their products to stay on top, but it's not their core business and they don't want it to take away from their ads or licenses they sell. Midjourney as a company is much freer to innovate without the burden of the restrictions of an established company.

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

vunderba wrote: post #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.

Dall-E 3 (intentionally) leans away from realism though but in doing so what it leans into is a very tacky and aesthetically naive although competently executed type of image. Gives every image the feeling that you're seeing a bootleg version of a genuine thing and therefore makes everything else it touches feel tacky.

Same feeling you get looking at the airbrushed art on a state fairground ride.

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Post by Filligree »

smusamashah wrote: post #143
iJohnDoe wrote: post #115

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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 nu…

We did have SDXL in-between, and while that one was also censored, the censoring has been long since removed in fine-tunes.

Flux is also censored, but in a way that doesn't usually break anatomy. It took about a week before people figured out how to start decensoring it.

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Post by Filligree »

jpalomaki wrote: post #140
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.

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.

That's exactly true, and having built a similar bot for friends and acquaintances to use, the effect in question is huge. It makes no sense to go for a webapp first, second or even third.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

coumbaya wrote: post #9

Flux, latest Midjourney, or even dall-e... I'm still disappointed that 3 of my sci-fi prompts never works (interior of an O'Neill Cylinder, Space elevator, rotating space station). I hope someone makes lora of those one day.

"Halo, Interior of a cylindrical space station habitat, upside down, fields, lakes, rivers, housing, rivers running around cylinder roof, Rick Guidice artwork, in space, stars visible through windows"

https://cdn.midjourney.com/ed234782-ac5c-41d7-99e9-20ce122cd...

They definitely struggle with getting the land moving up the wall and often it treats the cylinder like a window onto earth at ground level but I think with tweaking the weighting or order of terms and enough rolls of the dice you could get it.

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