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MidJourney Model v3. Released July 2022 | MidJourney Model v5.2. Released June 2023 |
With this very simple prompt, AI can create something beautiful. Or, at least it can now. But what a difference a year makes. Way way back in 2022, for the oldies in the audience, a little thing called MidJourney v3 was released. This, as the name implies, was the 3rd version of the model, creating what you see above. While this was a huge step in generative AI, compared to the modern, much more sophisticated models, it looks like a cave painting. While it took forever for AI to improve, it finally made leaps and bounds in the year that followed.
Fast forward to the modern times almost a whole year later, and we get MidJourney v5.2. This was a slight step up in the quality over version 3. Able to refine some of the features of the cowboy, and the models new understanding of rhine stones really made all the difference.
All jokes aside, it is amazing to think that in just eleven months, generative AI went from a vaguely impressionistic version of a person, to a photo-realistic, barely-distinguishable-from-the-real-thing image.
Able to understand not just simple commands and shapes, but complex lighting structures, wrinkles, skin texture, hair. Millions of finite details all put together in less than a minute.
This, of course, is why AI scares so many people. The ability to create such an image without a photographer, model, lighting technician, wardrobe and hours upon hours of post work. Something that used to take an entire day or more to setup and get the perfect shot can now be done in a matter of minutes.
While this does change things, it is a change that needs to be embraced. AI isn’t going anywhere, in fact, it is only going to get better, so hold on, because imagine what another year will bring.
EDIT: As of February 2024, MidJourney has released v6.
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