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This one was terrifying. Someone told it to show them the last selfie ever taken:

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I produced this earlier using the following "prompt"

"portrait of chihuahua with robot body, metal exoskeleton from the neck down, human head, 80mm lens, extreme detail, hyperreal, photorealistic, octane render, dramatic, detail, cinematic --aspect 2:3 --testp --upbeta --creative"

Took less than 1 minute to produce. We are heading to very disruptive times across all professions.

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I produced this earlier using the following "prompt"

"portrait of chihuahua with robot body, metal exoskeleton from the neck down, human head, 80mm lens, extreme detail, hyperreal, photorealistic, octane render, dramatic, detail, cinematic --aspect 2:3 --testp --upbeta --creative"

Took less than 1 minute to produce. We are heading to very disruptive times across all professions.
So far Discord is producing crap for me but I'm seeing many illustrations from other people that look good.To see if I could improve my original prompt (beagle eating Chrysler) I added some of your highfalutin instructions, which gave me "beagle eating chrysler, extreme detail, hyperreal, photorealistic, octane render, dramatic, detail, cinematic"

And got this 😅


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Also I agree with you completely that this tech is going to upend some industry.

Edit: Thanks for the heads up about Discord, which is faster than waiting for an invite to use the others.
 
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So far Discord is producing crap for me but I'm seeing many illustrations from other people that look good.To see if I could improve my original prompt (beagle eating Chrysler) I added some of your highfalutin instructions, which gave me "beagle eating chrysler, extreme detail, hyperreal, photorealistic, octane render, dramatic, detail, cinematic"

And got this 😅




Also I agree with you completely that this tech is going to upend some industry.

Edit: Thanks for the heads up about Discord, which is faster than waiting for an invite to use the others.

I notice it doesn't quite understand some context, so you get used to how it thinks and how to explain what you want. I hope they don't perfect it too much as half the fun is when it makes something totally unexpected but very cool. I wonder when the novelty will wear off for most though. More than anything, I'm finding it a way to exercise creative thinking.
 
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Curious wether two same prompts will end up as two same “works of art”, depending on what google’s AI has to say to midjourney about the user (male, female, fat, skinny, likes porn, likes gaming...)
 

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I notice it doesn't quite understand some context, so you get used to how it thinks and how to explain what you want. I hope they don't perfect it too much as half the fun is when it makes something totally unexpected but very cool. I wonder when the novelty will wear off for most though. More than anything, I'm finding it a way to exercise creative thinking.
I was given access to Dall-E today and it is amazing/horrifying how good it is. I asked it to do a portrait of me with the following prompt:

"angry teddy bear wearing a vintage camera around his neck smoking cigar"

The likeness is uncanny.
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And then I added "in a stroller" to the original prompt.
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And now in Times Square...
"angry teddy bear wearing a vintage camera around his neck smoking cigar times square"
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i like the various styles of the midjourney one.. i did 'rambo as an office worker' 😁

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various prompts to make a child rambo such as P ixar Style, Tiny cute and adorable Rambo dressed in military uniform, jean - baptiste monge , anthropomorphic , dramatic lighting, portrait" etc

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Wow you are such a great artist
 

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Okay, we are in hell

I would treat this as an opportunity and challenge.
Use the AI as a tool or collaborator.

Try to start a project with and AI generated image and finish it yourself. Or pick one of your pieces and see where AI takes it.
Could be a nice journey, who knows?! :smile:

Otherwise, like many people said, AI won't take the camera&film from your hands :smile:
 

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the person who won the contest spent 900 hundred hour working on the submission, he didn't just have a computer compile images and he was done. has anyone here spent 900 hours on just 1 of their images?
 

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the person who won the contest spent 900 hundred hour working on the submission, he didn't just have a computer compile images and he was done. has anyone here spent 900 hours on just 1 of their images?

In a word?













Heck no!
 

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the person who won the contest spent 900 hundred hour working on the submission, he didn't just have a computer compile images and he was done. has anyone here spent 900 hours on just 1 of their images?

I wonder what Jerry Uelsman's average time was for his compositions?
Or Jeff Wall's?
I expect that a better comparable to some of these creations might be a piece of symphonic music.
Or a very complex piece of multi-media art.
 

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I wonder what Jerry Uelsman's average time was for his compositions?
Or Jeff Wall's?
I expect that a better comparable to some of these creations might be a piece of symphonic music.
Or a very complex piece of multi-media art.

yes.
 

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900 iterations is not 900 hours:

First, he said, he played around with phrasing that led Midjourney to generate images of women in frilly dresses and space helmets — he was trying to mash up Victorian-style costuming with space themes, he said. Over time, with many slight tweaks to his written prompt (such as to adjust lighting and color harmony), he created 900 iterations of what led to his final three images. He cleaned up those three images in Photoshop, such as by giving one of the female figures in his winning image a head with wavy, dark hair after Midjourney had rendered her headless. Then he ran the images through another software program called Gigapixel AI that can improve resolution and had the images printed on canvas at a local print shop.
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does it ? sounds about the same to me.



does it really matter? ... how many people on this site have made 900 iterations of one a print ?

My guess, none.

The software made the iterations. There was only one print.

If a baker gets a client who wants an eclair made a certain way, and the baker tries 899 times to make the eclair exactly the way the client wants but fails only to succeed in meeting the approval of the client on the 900th try, who exactly is the baker - the one doing the baking or the client?
 

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The software made the iterations. There was only one print.

so he didn't operate the software or monitor his computer while different variations of his image were being iterated ?
and even if he didn't, I'm not sure why I should care.

I'm sure people with fancy cameras or plastic fantastic who use a darkroom to toil for their work
or people who made their submission to the contest with high end digital
(or their cellphone) and photoshop are complaining because they think they deserved it
not some video game designer who "did nothing". whole thing is a joke.
 

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I'm wondering the same thing.

I wonder if the software keeps track of what is used to pay the licensing fees to all the people whose images were used by the software. from what I remember there is no free lunch.
it looks like @Sean and @warden will be billed soon, they can tell us how it works. LOL
 
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Now I know where all the "likes" get sent to...into the world of AI.
 
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