Ask HN: Why is Midjourney better than Stable Diffusion?

Posted by gavribirnbaum on Sunday May 28, 2023 @12:59PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I wonder what they do better than Stable diffusion to generate the images. It seems more responsive to prompts and able to generate higher quality results.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Midjourney better than Stable Diffusion? by brucethemoose2 on Sunday May 28, 2023 @01:06PM (#36105834)

Stable Diffusion 1.5 is state of the art... Heck, its not even close. But you have to run your own instance and dive into the ridiculous number of tools/models the community has developed to take advantage of it.

Midjourney has a strong (and improving?) base model and probably automates the usage of some similar tools behind the scenes. So on the surface, it is indeed better.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Midjourney better than Stable Diffusion? by gavribirnbaum on Sunday May 28, 2023 @01:57PM (#36106240)

What tools are you referring to and how are they being automated?

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Midjourney better than Stable Diffusion? by brucethemoose2 on Sunday May 28, 2023 @04:27PM (#36107447)

TBH I am not familiar with today's Midjourney, but I am thinking of things like face restoration, tiled VAEs for better high res generation, and self attention.

But many tools (like controlnet, or using images as input) require more manual control.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Midjourney better than Stable Diffusion? by brightside67 on Sunday May 28, 2023 @01:10PM (#36105857)

bing/images is a good one btw. powered by private DALLE ver

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