Midjourney may suck at hands. But it's pretty good at cats.
One man's Wasp Hunting is another man's POLLEN APOCALYPSEWent out killing wasps and their nest on my front porch yesterday. A friend of mine thought my description of calling it "wasp hunting" was funny. So I made some AI art to commemorate
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I definitely wouldn't call myself an AI "artist". But I do enjoy working hard to bring the vision in my head to life as imagery. The stuff I'm able to produce is liable to be unique to me, my vision, and my keywords, so I feel like I'm creating 'something'...but I don't know that it has the same cachet as someone who paints, sculpts, or otherwise has had to spend great amounts of time, effort and talent to hone their craft.... I'm not really feeling that I'm creating anything, but discovering based on nobs and dials I twist and turn. My text input is only vaguely there sometimes. I've also discovered that adding a random number to the text input has a significant impact on the output that you can use to tweak the output images. It's very interesting, but more like dialing in to see a picture of a subject in a different universe (in an infinite number of possible universe, why not have this happen?) than it is creating anything of my own.
Nothing here to disagree with.I definitely wouldn't call myself an AI "artist". But I do enjoy working hard to bring the vision in my head to life as imagery. The stuff I'm able to produce is liable to be unique to me, my vision, and my keywords, so I feel like I'm creating 'something'...but I don't know that it has the same cachet as someone who paints, sculpts, or otherwise has had to spend great amounts of time, effort and talent to hone their craft.
On the other hand, I feel like I probably work a lot harder than some 'artists' who just randomly splash paint on a canvas and call it art.
I have had a similar experience when tweaking the controls on an analog synthesizer. "I have no idea what I'm doing, but when I turn this knob like that...oh yeah, that's some money, right there."I have been spending hours and hours just tweaking dials and nobs and changing input here and there, and have been enjoying the hell out of it.
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Some of my best outputs, "creations", or discoveries, whatever you call them, are so far off the mark from my input text but so genuinely good that my draw drops and I'm in shock.
Exactly like that.I have had a similar experience when tweaking the controls on an analog synthesizer. "I have no idea what I'm doing, but when I turn this knob like that...oh yeah, that's some money, right there."
--Patrick
And bing also got the fingers right!I'm kind of bummed that Bing image creator is doing a better job with some prompts than Midjourney. " japanese girl child dressed in the style of feudal japan with an octopus on her head"
Bing vs MJ
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No matter what I tried with MJ, I couldn't get an octopus with a face/head. Bing provided me several examples with an actual octopus as well as a stuffed toy (shown)
Then try shrinking it a lot with your browser zoom.Squinting at it makes it blurry, but not blurry enough to make out the words.
—Patrick