Midjourney v5 might be ready for prime time, in most cases it seems to have solved faces, hands, etc. The difference between version 1 from exactly one year ago and v5 now is rather striking: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_...

This is effectively DALLE-2 (apparently retrained on different data) with a native frontend designed by experienced designers.

You don't see the value in effectively not needing any art/design skills to make aesthetically pleasing logos/mockups/memes? Even just for "playing around" - I bet there's a large market of people who want to add "fun edits" to their existing personal photo library.

Focus less on landing pages and more on the implications a technology brings. Then you'll see where things are headed.

I've tried to use DALL-E for practical purposes such as generating icons, art etc. for commercial products but most of it is unusable.

Dall-e is far behind Midjourney and Stable Diffusion.

As we speak I’m generating images of my dog as every Pokémon type (for fun) that are frankly quite a bit better than the art of most Pokémon cards.

I’ve also used it for a photo composite: https://youtu.be/c_1mRWthhek

Yeah I was just using DALLE2 for the first time in awhile because I hoped it would integrate more simply alongside my code for the GPT4 api. Results are just objectively underwhelming after having used stable diffusion for so long.

It’s also still under beta and given the recent codex termination, I wouldn’t be surprised if they get rid of it.