Midjourney 6 Means the End for a Big Chunk of the Photo Industry

> While the background of the V5.1 image looked like Hogwarts, the V6 image has a tasteful, blurred background of hefty-looking lawbooks. If this image was in the brochure for a law school, we’d probably feel compelled to go there. > > In fact, that’s exactly what I’ve discovered in my own experiments with using Midjourney V6 images in advertising campaigns. Midjourney’s aspirational images of people convert better than images of real people. Customers can’t get enough of them.

It will probably go that way due to friction and cost but not a great development.

AI generated images in a news article or long form essay are incredibly distracting and do not add value. Not a fan of experiencing the uncanny valley when I just want to read text.

And there are other cheaper AI art generators too like ebank.nz doing unlimited plans

I mean, it's definitely better - at least the hands have the right number of fingers. However, these don't quite strike me as realistic photos, but rather as high-quality renderings. Also, in the lawyer picture, the foreground looks inappropriately blurred - it looks like it has a narrow depth of field, but the hands would almost never be out of focus in a photo like this. The background looks more like a stylized image of our of focus library shelves than what actual out of focus shelves would look. For filler stock photos, these might do, but I believe they would make your website look cheap

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It's fine to post archive links in the comments, but not at the top level, unless of course the article really doesn't exist on the web anymore.

thanks for posting the archived link.