Tag Archives: MidJourney

OpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds and forged friendships in 2022

Enlarge / An AI-generated image from DALL-E 2 created with the prompt “A painting by Grant Wood of an astronaut couple, american gothic style.” reader comments 39 When OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 debuted on April 6, 2022, the idea that a computer could create relatively photorealistic images on demand based on just text descriptions caught a… Read More »

Image-scraping Midjourney bans rival AI firm for scraping images

Enlarge / A burglar with a flashlight and papers in a business office—exactly like scraping files from Discord. reader comments 35 On Wednesday, Midjourney banned all employees from image synthesis rival Stability AI from its service indefinitely after it detected “botnet-like” activity suspected to be a Stability employee attempting to scrape prompt and image pairs… Read More »

How much detail is too much? Midjourney v6 attempts to find out

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a “Beautiful queen of the universe looking at the camera in sci-fi armor, snow and particles flowing, fire in the background” created using alpha Midjourney v6. Midjourney reader comments 91 In December, just before Christmas, Midjourney launched an alpha version of its latest image synthesis model, Midjourney v6. Over… Read More »

A song of hype and fire: The 10 biggest AI stories of 2023

Getty Images | Benj Edwards reader comments 0 “Here, There, and Everywhere” isn’t just a Beatles song. It’s also a phrase that recalls the spread of generative AI into the tech industry during 2023. Whether you think AI is just a fad or the dawn of a new tech revolution, it’s been impossible to deny… Read More »

Meta’s new AI image generator was trained on 1.1 billion Instagram and Facebook photos

Enlarge / Three images generated by “Imagine with Meta AI” using the Emu AI model. Meta | Benj Edwards reader comments 58 On Wednesday, Meta released a free standalone AI image generator website, “Imagine with Meta AI,” based on its Emu image synthesis model. Meta used 1.1 billion publicly visible Facebook and Instagram images to… Read More »

From toy to tool: DALL-E 3 is a wake-up call for visual artists—and the rest of us

Enlarge / A composite of three DALL-E 3 AI art generations: an oil painting of Hercules fighting a shark, a photo of the queen of the universe, and a marketing photo of “Marshmallow Menace” cereal. DALL-E 3 / Benj Edwards reader comments 133 with In October, OpenAI launched its newest AI image generator—DALL-E 3—into wide… Read More »

Adobe’s AI image generators get beefy updates, including vector graphics

Enlarge / An AI-generated vector graphic of a barbarian and a landscape generated with Adobe Illustrator. Benj Edwards / Adobe reader comments 45 with On Tuesday, Adobe announced major updates to AI image synthesis features across several products, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and Adobe Express. The updates include three new generative AI models—Firefly 2, Firefly Design… Read More »

US rejects AI copyright for famous state fair-winning Midjourney art

Enlarge / The winning entry, Théåtre D’opéra Spatial, from the Colorado State Fair in August 2022. Jason Allen reader comments 51 with On Tuesday, the US Copyright Office Review Board rejected copyright protection for an AI-generated artwork that won a Colorado State Fair art contest last year because it lacks human authorship required for registration,… Read More »

AI-generated child sex imagery has every US attorney general calling for action

reader comments 159 with On Wednesday, American attorneys general from all 50 states and four territories sent a letter to Congress urging lawmakers to establish an expert commission to study how generative AI can be used to exploit children through child sexual abuse material (CSAM). They also call for expanding existing laws against CSAM to… Read More »

Thorny AI ownership questions have Copyright Office seeking public input

reader comments 96 with On Wednesday, the US Copyright Office began seeking public comment on issues surrounding generative AI systems and copyright. The public comment period, which starts on August 30, aims to explore the complex intersection of AI technology with copyright laws, and it closes on November 15. The comments could inform how the… Read More »