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I discovered that Midjourney can’t generate a question mark, and if you use the /describe command and give it a picture of a question mark, it hallucinates.

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My favourite Midjourney weirdness is what happens if you try to get it to draw you a "horseshoe" (or "horse shoe" - try both).

for those of us in the peanut gallery... what happens?

Things like this: https://gist.github.com/simonw/6a161d4912c0bdb82945b96230265...

That's hilarious! Some of them look like they're trying to create those images on google search where it's a "horse shoe" logo of sorts.

Like my comment on question marks, horseshoes are even easier to generate. Check the gallery site and it's full of completely normal ones.

Saying "check the gallery site" would be a lot more useful if you'd link to examples in the gallery site.

https://www.midjourney.com/app/search/?search=horse%20shoes has some - most of them are weird, but a few are OK, like this one:

https://www.midjourney.com/app/search/?jobId=7ba6779d-8fde-4...

"horse shoes" is different than "horseshoe" and will give you different results.

I didn't feel like linking a search was useful as only people who had memberships could use and see it, and you were able to do it yourself as shown.

Oh fair enough! I didn't realize the search feature only worked for paying users. TIL.

I tried today for it to draw a horse with pink shoes (or sneakers). Could not do it.

midjourney, and I suspect all image generators, can’t imagine scenes without a floor.

Ask it to draw -a solar system.

- A planet floating in space

- A floating city

It has to have an in-image observer, who stands on the ground.

It also fails with images that display extreme perspective.

- A mountain that pierces the sky.

- A space elevator.

Huh. We seem to be having very different experiences.

- A floating city[1]

- A planet floating in space[2]

- A space elevator[3]

[1] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1003683981184737422/1...

[2] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1003683981184737422/1...

[3] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1003683981184737422/1...

Nice. It looks like there are still similar issues, but some things have improved.

I went through my results to check:

1) Floating city came out much better than my results a month ago.

- Prompt: Flying city - https://cdn.midjourney.com/85e254c4-d782-47a5-b63b-db8d20e54...

- Prompt: Flying city in space - https://cdn.midjourney.com/d8b9a582-6056-4fec-a0f2-e939c203a...

2) Planets was 50/50. the top 2 are prime examples of the floor issue.

- Prompt: A planet surrounded by the emptiness of space — https://cdn.midjourney.com/35246b1f-b344-4015-972b-512b770c3...

3)Space elevator, The first image is quite good

- prompt: Science fiction space elevator vanishing point in the sky - https://cdn.midjourney.com/0a92bbcf-329a-480d-a0eb-aec368eb7...

Vanishing points/ perspective dont seem to be grasped, leaving images constrained to certain view distances from observer as well as viewing angles. (I am not sure if those are the correct technical terms to describe the problem).

- How do solar systems work for you?

Prompt: solar system in space. https://cdn.midjourney.com/3873cdc1-fa9f-4a54-b5d5-c2336aa08...

the hallucinations is exactly what I enjoy the most about midjourney. If you want a detailed photo of exactly your prompt, I'd probably not use midjourney, but for making weird wonky artistic stuff, it's amazing. Trying to make anything actually visually appealing and artistic with Dall-E and the rest is a pain in the ass.

It definitely can, I see a bunch of great examples on the gallery site just by searching up "question mark".

I tried other punctuation marks and MJ can't do them either.

Exclamation mark generaties all kinds of vertical objects, comma results in a generic pretty face, and semicolon is ...weird.

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