Future Tech Pilot
Here is a recap from the Midjourney Office Hours on October 11th, 2023
David talked about what the mods and guides are currently testing, like the new upscalers, as well as a better picture for the V6 release
Prompt Used: a colored illustration of a [subject], in the style of pixelated pop art, chris claremont, spray painted, etam cru, spontaneous gesture, 2d game art –s {40,100} AND all niji styles
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Thanks as always!
I pay for ChatGPT so I have Dall-E 3 to learn how to get good with for the next few months. Will probably let my MJ lapse until v6. MJ still rocks, but I like to learn, and I am at like 20,000 images on MJ at this point.
Will you be cover Dall-E 3 a bit more?
A lot of people is no longer holding their breath waiting for V6 lol. Now that Dall-E 3 and firefly 2 is out.
I canceled my subscription to midjourney, and went back to Dall.e. I'm hopping version 6 will blow me away
At this point they might as well not do office hours and hold until they release an update, they're repeating the same things every week.
Thanks for taking the time to summarize this for us!
Thanks as always. 👍 You know I'm an avid MJ loyalist, but if I had to bet money, I would. It's taking longer not just because of what they're constantly mentioning but because the competition is fierce. They know v6 has to be more of a leap and less of a step. 2 minutes for scaling? Can't agree on a style? Personality what?! Video (which in a way sounds like adding depth maps like Leia). My two cents that'll never make it up there – focus on catching up with certain things first – text, more control, consistency (I know they've mentioned working on that), more natural language (which had been mentioned many months ago), a friendly UI presence, and more. I know running a company like MJ can't be easy. But it honestly feels like they're divided internally as to what needs addressing first. I wish them the best, and again, than you for doing this for us. 💯 Mini-rant was not about you obviously. It's just expensive as a hobby. Not because I'm not financially secure. But because it is literally a hobby, and I'm paying for it. Beginning to wonder if it's time to step back for a bit.
Midjourney is getting nowhere. It seems they are stuck.
They're basically repeating the same things every week. G R O U N D H O G D A Y. Dall-e 3 it is! MJ is done.
Dall-E 3 is incredible. I haven't abandoned Midjourney quite yet but Version 6 better be at LEAST as good as Dall-E 3 otherwise whats the point of it.
They keep saying the same thing for a while now. They are still my first choice but I have been using bing way more often than midjourney lately and can see a lot of impatient people leaving.
They're being saved by dall-e 3's insane restrictions.
Does ir really matter that much that the upscaler is slow? When you upscale you are already happy with your image.
October is the first month since the beta where I stopped renewing my subscription – I can use it for another week, but for now there is no indication that I will renew it until V6.
It seems to me that the midjourney team went a bit overboard with all the things they started working on, they lacked resources and spread their efforts and resources too much on all the projects.
They were caught up and overtaken by the competition – starting with sdxl 1.0, through dall-e 3 (I started using it every day and I definitely prefer it over midjourney, and I paid for GPT4 anyway) and the latest announcements from adobe – I assume you will make a video about adobe soon.
As a big fan of midjourney with almost 30,000 generations, I hope that midjourney will come back as the king with V6.
Yeah, speaking personally I don't care that much about their personality tests or even their video ambitions. There will be other A.I. for that. They run the risk of trying to do everything and turning out average results for at least half of it. Better to work off a strong base and catch up with competition. Dall-E took a giant step ahead on prompt coherence and that needs to be caught up with or MJ WILL be left behind. On the other hand, they definitely do NOT want emulate Dall-E's censorship policies, which is treating adults like 10 year olds (even MJ is kind of doing that, but at least it's not as bad as DALL[E). On the other hand again, Dall-E has moved forward on text production and MJ needs to catch up with THAT. Personality, video, 3d, these things are bells and whistles. Make sure your fundamentals are coming in really strong first. At the moment, MJ still ignores half of what you ask it to do. That's not great. At the moment, sometimes it produces AMAZING results with certain prompts but with others mediocre results that don't seem to improve much. Representing well known people is truly hit or miss, and in some cases only works at all with multiple real photographic references built into the prompt. DARNED SYMMETRY. Get that sorted! It's a pain in the neck. Telling MJ not to make an image symmetrical is like shouting across a crowded bar.
One thing that i wish midjourney should have.. to upload our own image.. and be able to subtly modify it , zoom out , and panned to extend the image.. bcs it seems now any other ai couldn't able to zoom out as good as midjourney does.. even dall e 3 does not have that feature . Maybe photoshop generative expand could decently
I feel its reaching a plateau in usability and creativity wise. Whatever you can imagine is all done, styles are similar to everyone else and what they are doing to the point where Print in Demand works all look like its just done by Midjourney and not individual users. They better hurry the F up with that personality test and I hope this will set MJ apart from the rest because they will lose users to other Free Ai image generators and SD.
Given how fast that Dalle-3 has gotten, that without variations and inpainting and upscaling, and blending, MJ would likely be toast, the old adage of "move fast and break things" seems to come to mind for new features right now.
At least it would be demonstratable progress for the userbase.
Thanks for the recap!
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Midjourney is now lagging behind. I’m on top tier subscription. But I’ll be stopping it this month.
Your prompt is awesome. Don't know why it's taken me so long to subscribe. Cheers.
mj is too slow, they are falling behind now
Thanks man !!
Midjourney now outdated..
DavidH has lost all credibility with me. He promised things this week that did not happen. He has been promising an update since 5.2 came out in June. Every week he says "in a week or two" or "by the end of the month". We don't expect major changes but he claims 5.3 has been ready for 3+ months, and then backs down by saying any release is a big effort. I'm sure it is, but hit the switch and then move on with the other items that most users care little about…. the web site upgrade, personality tests, etc.
I have been a paying MJ user since v3 came out and I am losing faith in its management. Dear David, as someone who has managed a large company for decades, let me give you some advice: Perfection Is the Enemy of Productivity. As Confucius said, “Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.”
Always learning something new about AI. Thanks for the content
Hey Future, The new 2x and 4x upscalers are top notch. I'm only doing some portraits but the 4K 20mb files look amazing!!!