Midjourney is higher quality by a fair bit, from my personal experience and from being near a few of the top early AI artists for a good little while.
I was under the impression that midjourney was just running a form of SD and it's real secret sauce are the peripheral prompts it injects on the backend along with your prompts.
I could be totally off the mark here.
I could be entirely wrong, though. Maybe the person making that decision is just an idiot.
I have an IRC bot that has triggers for DALL-E, GPT3, and ChatGPT. I really want to make one for MidJourney, and I would happily pay MJ for the privilege. But I can't. Not without breaking some rules.
The only way to do it right now would be to create a separate dedicated discord account linked to midjourney, and then have your bot control that user account and that's a good way not only to get your MJ access revoked but also to have your discord account banned.
As far as kneecaping their growth, they have one of the largest discord channels in history and they frequently run up against compute limits, so if this was one of their ostensible goals they failed at it pretty spectacularly.
AFAIK, this isn't possible.
They're good enough technically at what they do that their audience is okay with the interface that they have to use, I'd reckon (I've heard similar beefs about the UI stuff though, so it sorta makes sense).
Would you mind explaining what you mean by that? Thanks!
Nothing so… social