is it not similar? taking raw data, some vector of data and constructing a visual image

There's deterministic algos for it and have existed for ages.

Medical imaging is literally the last of the last places where you want to hallucinate a tiny little blob.

> Medical imaging is literally the last of the last places where you want to hallucinate a tiny little blob.

Where's your sense of fun and adventure? /s

One thing invents a bunch of fake bullshit using artist's work and the other is supposed to give you an image of something real and meaningful that wasn't just hallucinated or patched together. All from the guy who brought us Leap Motion, a gimmicky product that failed to live up to the hype. This isn't exactly encouraging. If it actually works we won't need a press release on their website, we'll hear about it in medical journals and it'll be doctors singing its praises. You'll find it being used in hospitols and not pop-up spas.

Only after that happens will I have to even consider how comfortable I am with the idea of handing over what they suggest will be massive amounts of highly personal medical data to this company and how much I trust them not to exploit that information for their own purposes and profit.

Midjourney is not actually an AI imagery company. It's a research lab that happened to do AI images first.

I talked more about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48588293