“Too simple“—Midjourney exams dramatic new model of its AI picture generator

On Saturday, AI picture service Midjourney started alpha testing model 4 (“v4”) of its text-to-image synthesis mannequin, which is accessible for subscribers on its Discord server. The brand new mannequin offers extra element than beforehand out there, inspiring some AI artists to comment that v4 nearly makes it “too simple” to get high-quality outcomes from easy prompts.

Midjourney opened to the general public in March as a part of an early wave of AI picture synthesis fashions. It shortly gained a big following on account of its distinct model and for being publicly out there earlier than DALL-E and Secure Diffusion. Earlier than lengthy, Midjourney-crafted paintings made the information by profitable artwork contests, offering materials for doubtlessly historic copyright registrations, and displaying up on inventory illustration web sites (later getting banned).

Over time, Midjourney refined its mannequin with extra coaching, new options, and higher element. The present default mannequin, often called “v3,” debuted in August. Now, Midjourney v4 is getting put to the check by 1000’s of members of the service’s Discord server that create photographs by means of the Midjourney bot. Customers can at the moment strive v4 by appending “–v 4” to their prompts.

“V4 is a wholly new codebase and completely new AI structure,” wrote Midjourney founder David Holz in a Discord announcement. “It is our first mannequin skilled on a brand new Midjourney AI supercluster and has been within the works for over 9 months.”

In our exams of Midjourney’s v4 mannequin, we discovered that it offers a far higher quantity of element than v3, a greater understanding of prompts, higher scene compositions, and generally higher proportionality in its topics. When searching for photorealistic photographs, some outcomes we have seen will be tough to tell apart from precise images at decrease resolutions.

In response to Holz, different options of v4 embody:

– Vastly extra information (of creatures, locations, and extra)
– Significantly better at getting small particulars proper (in all conditions)
– Handles extra advanced prompting (with a number of ranges of element)
– Higher with multi-object / multi-character scenes
– Helps superior performance like picture prompting and multi-prompts
– Helps –chaos arg (set it from 0 to 100) to manage the number of picture grids

Response to Midjourney v4 has been constructive on the service’s Discord, and followers of different picture synthesis fashions—who recurrently wrestle with advanced prompts to get good outcomes—are taking be aware.

One Redditor named Jon Bristow posted within the r/StableDiffusion neighborhood, “Does anybody else really feel like Midjourney v4 is ‘too simple’? This was ‘Shut-up pictures of a face’ and it feels such as you did not make it. Prefer it was premade.” In reply, somebody joked, “Unhappy for Professional prompters who will lose their new job created one month in the past.”

Midjourney says that v4 continues to be in alpha, so it’s going to proceed to repair the brand new mannequin’s quirks over time. The corporate plans on growing the decision and high quality of v4’s upscaled photographs, including customized side ratios (like v3), growing picture sharpness, and lowering textual content artifacts. Midjourney is accessible for a month-to-month subscription price that ranges between US $10 and $50 a month.

Contemplating the progress Midjourney has remodeled eight months of labor, we surprise what subsequent yr’s progress in picture synthesis will convey.

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