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A Coming-Out Party for Generative A.I., Silicon Valley’s New Craze

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Re: A Coming-Out Party for Generative A.I., Silicon Valley’s New Craze

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I’ve been having a lot of fun using Midjourney to create images based on lyrics for music videos (here’s one for Kashmir by Led Zeppelin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un0XZMubeCE).

I can’t speak for anyone else, but this is probably the most magic I’ve felt from a new piece of technology. Each time I generate a new images, it’s a surprise. I can usually identify something in the image based on the prompt, but sometimes it’s wild and completely out of left field. I’ve probably generated a few thousand images so far and don’t see myself stopping anytime soon.

One change I’d like to see is in language allowed. I don’t get why Midjourney allows “kill” and “die” but not “bloody”.

Re: A Coming-Out Party for Generative A.I., Silicon Valley’s New Craze

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If you're reading this and you haven't played with Stable Diffusion yet, try any of the following quick-and-easy generators:

https://stablediffusionweb.com

https://getimg.ai/editor

https://healthydiffusion.com

https://holovolo.tv/landing

Not sure what to type? Copy and paste prompts from any of the following prompt databases:

https://lexica.art

https://www.krea.ai/

https://promptbase.com

Want to run it on your own computer? Install any of the following:

https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui

https://github.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry

Re: A Coming-Out Party for Generative A.I., Silicon Valley’s New Craze

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I’ve been having a lot of fun using Midjourney to create images based on lyrics for music videos (here’s one for Kashmir by Led Zeppelin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un0XZMubeCE ). I can’t speak for anyone else, but this is probably the most magic I’ve felt from a new piece of technology. Each time I generate a new images, it’s a surprise. I can usually identify something in the image based on the prompt, but some…

That is so cool. If those images could morph into each other, you'd have generative music videos.

Re: A Coming-Out Party for Generative A.I., Silicon Valley’s New Craze

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I’ve been having a lot of fun using Midjourney to create images based on lyrics for music videos (here’s one for Kashmir by Led Zeppelin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un0XZMubeCE ). I can’t speak for anyone else, but this is probably the most magic I’ve felt from a new piece of technology. Each time I generate a new images, it’s a surprise. I can usually identify something in the image based on the prompt, but some…

I hope you will run your own locally instead of letting Midjourney block and/or mess with your prompts.