> Does being easier not influence whether it's better? I mean this in that for many of the ways AI art would be used, MJ already seems to be "good enough" at a lot of it. > ... > I'm asking real questions, not making a statement I believe in and just adding a question mark.

In my opinion, it is tedious to discuss whether Midjourney or Stable Diffusion is better.

Both are tools with their own strengths and weaknesses.

Midjourney

- Comparable to a ready-made consumer product.

- Easy to use and you get excellent results quickly.

- The feature set is limited. So you can't influence so well how the result should look like.

- Restrictions on what you can generate with it (gore, nudes).

- Fee required.

Stable Diffusion

- Comparable to a development kit. Technical, Difficult to use, different tools that you have to configure and use correctly.

- For excellent results you have to invest much more time.

- Extensive feature set (inpaining, outpaining, upscaling, ControlNet, many different models, LORAs, textual inversions). You can much better define how the result should look like.

- No restrictions on what you can generate.

- Free if you install it locally.