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HN is just incredibly bad at figuring out what kind of ML projects are worth getting excited about and what aren't.

MJ v4 doesn't even use Stable Diffusion as a base [0]; a fine-tune of the latter will never come close to achieving what they do.

[0] - https://discord.com/channels/729741769192767510/730095596861...

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It doesn’t use stablediffusion?

I thought everything besides dall-e was sd under the hood.

Mj earlier versions were around before SD came out. Before dall-e 2 too, but after 1 IIRC. So I assume they have their own custom setup. Perhaps based on dall-e 1 paper originally (not weights as they were never published) and improved from there.

Interesting i thought stable diffusion was the only other "big player" besides OpenAI because of the expenses in training and extrapolating from papers / new research.

Is Midjourney heavily funded? Because if they can battle SD why aren't we seeing lots of people doing the same, even in the Open Source space?

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