Someone is wrong on the internet: Midjourney magazine is cool

midjourney magazine is "soulless and embodying the threat AI poses to journalism", merely "pages upon pages of large images of varying quality in varying genres... captioned with the prompt used to generate them".

The author doesn't seem to be a big fan of midjourney magazine and what it represents.

It's true that Midjourney magazine doesn't compete as an art publication in a traditional sense.

But it does something far more interesting: it makes me, a mere mortal, feel like an artist.

Every artwork is accompanied by its prompt, and the prompts work. It's fun to type these prompts into the midjourney discord and see something amazing created.

I can play with certain words, add phrases, modify descriptions and quickly iterate towards something that feels unique and, curiously, "my own".

Sometimes the prompts are surprising, like this one:

"don’t look at the eloquent red circle, surreal, glistening highlights –ar2:3 –s 33": https://shorturl.at/aBMRS

It creates dramatic red-toned images featuring with a haunting surrealistic robed humanoid beneath an ominous orb.

I iterated on this a bit, to explore the impact of different words.

For example, "the eloquent circle has much to say ": https://shorturl.at/nxMO9

Midjourney magazine is a manual for visual creation with AI that even me, a programmer with zero artistic ability, can use to feel like an artist. The prompts are amazing, surprising, and, unlike any other art publication, interactive.

Jun 28, 2023