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Re:Google “We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI” by throwaway675309 on Thursday May 04, 2023 @06:03PM (#35822744)
Generate the following picture in mid journey: "A school of dolphins spanking a mermaid with their flukes."

A 1000 V-rolls won't get you there. For something like this control net combined with inpainting is indispensable. Not to mention the excessively heavy handed censorship in MJ.

Midjourney excels in overall quality, but it completely falls down if you have an actual complex vision.

Re:Google “We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI” by cubefox on Friday May 05, 2023 @07:21AM (#35827813)
It seems Midjourney is great at generating non-pornographic pictures.
Re:Google “We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI” by throwaway675309 on Friday May 05, 2023 @06:57PM (#35836123)
Uhh... Spanking isn't inherently pornographic - that particular image was supposed to be a Gary Larson parody style comic.

Here have another prompt: "Rapunzel has let her hair all the way down a tower. The hero has been tied up by the witch, and annoyed at Rapunzel's continual attempts to escape, the witch throws the bottom of her hair into a paper shredder at the base of the tower."

You could v-roll until the heat death of the universe without even getting close.

Midjourney is great if all you're capable of conceiving is 90s Mad Magazine templatized mad Libs, banal crap like "Darth Vader as a French pantomime street artist".

Unfortunately that also describes the majority of midjourney users.

Re:Google “We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI” by cubefox on Saturday May 06, 2023 @10:26AM (#35841684)
Yeah, prompts which basically just list properties (Darth Vader, French, pantomime, street artist) seem to work well, but relations are mostly too hard for these models. Even "a monk playing chess against a clown" or "a blue book on top of a yellow book" is out of reach for Bing's Dall-E ~3, and Midjourney probably isn't much better here.

https://www.bing.com/images/create/a-monk-playing-chess-agai...

https://www.bing.com/images/create/a-blue-book-on-top-of-a-y...

Simple (prompt only) use of generative models is quite good at creating simple artistic pictures you might actually hang on a wall. Trying to create a complex scene with just a prompt seems still a few years off though.