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What is midjourney being used for other than to make amusing reddit pictures and general messing around by laypeople?

Is it being used in an industry and I'm just not aware of it?

Gaming industry is HEAVILY bought into text to image. For concept art, textures, background scenes, filler content, etc. So many use cases.

Same with web design (for filler images, background art, etc), and design in general; basically, anything you'd previously employ a concept artist for, you can now do most of their work with midjourney or similar tools.

https://aituts.com/midjourney-web-design/

https://80.lv/articles/a-shoot-em-up-game-made-with-midjourn...

I think what many people today are calling AI will in the future be thought of as just a very high level programming language.

Loads of places where before you'd just have amateur art / no art.

We used it for department logos, etc. - it makes sense when it's so cheap.

For it to really grow though it needs to be able to be more domain-specific, like being able to generate 2D and 3D animations, spritesheets and isometric sprites, 3D models, normal maps and textures and being able to maintain a consistent style as a context (like ChatGPT).

> For it to really grow though it needs to be able to be more domain-specific, like being able to generate 2D and 3D animations, spritesheets and isometric sprites, 3D models, normal maps and textures and being able to maintain a consistent style as a context (like ChatGPT).

Heavily agreed. Just like how the smartphone revolution ended up in tons of businesses that create things around that ecosystem (from apps for many specific domains to tooling to whatever else), the current "AI" revolution will kick off creation of viable companies that apply the models in functionally practical ways to specific domains (including things you've mentioned like 3D models, textures, and tons more).

At least that's my hypothesis. The only caveat that I can think of is that the currently available "AI" would need to be actually functionally viable for those subdomains. But that's a split responsibility between the state of "AI" itself and the companies making tools for all those specific domains beijg able to actually make a good use of the models.

The game High On Life used Midjourney to create additional environmental art like posters and advertisements.[1]

The twitter account for the remake of System Shock used Midjourney to create an advertisement, and said they'd be continuing to use AI for art and possibly in other areas.[2]

I've seen other random postings from people saying that it's being used especially for generating concept art for games.

[1] https://www.eurogamer.net/high-on-life-contains-ai-art-and-v... [2] https://twitter.com/SystemShockGame/status/16534450087776747...

Comments like this remind me how profoundly isolated HN is from any of the digital arts, or even art at all.

I have friends and family who are suffering complete existential crisis because their lifelong careers - which they have been studying since childhood, then many more years in college - are being erased.

Even if you have other means to financially support yourself, a deep core pillar of your identity, the skills and work you take pride in, how you found meaning in life both in decades past and anticipated decades to come, no longer matters. In a very total and all-encompassing way. Being made as trivial and meaningless as waves in the ocean.

And people are celebrating it, and reveling the existential despair of others, with a level of barbaric sadism I had expected from this community but also expected them to be smart enough to always keep the mask over their sociopathy.

I expect that one of the generative image companies will be purchased by Getty Images or Adobe or Canva. Think of all the blogposts and social media graphics and advertising that uses boring, ill-fitting stock imagery. Companies want to replace that with 'their' IP, which is this case will be contextually-generated AI images.

Just one anecdote but I went to this modern art museum in Seattle last weekend that's small but well regarded: https://www.museumofmuseums.com/

I saw several mixed media pieces there (one was a diorama IIRC), which said some part of the artwork was done with Midjourney.

A coworker and his wife used it to generate the layout, design elements, colour scheme, and stock "photography" for their side project's marketing site.

I'm using it to visualise math.

Interesting. Got any image you can share?

I throw stuff up on;

https://github.com/tudorw/MultiDimensionalTopologicalManifol...

and here's an experiment using it to visualise a 'gestalt dashboard' concept;

https://github.com/tudorw/GestaltVisualisation

drop into https://twitch.tv/m88t #AI Nursery where I demo apps and take requests to try on Kaiber, MidJourney, Blockade Labs, etc

Hey that all looks great. Thank you :)

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