In an interview with David Holz, founder of Midjourney, Verge senior reporter James Vincent asks about the new text-to-art AI image generators that are shaking up the illustration market:
Generally, the “few dozen” current versions — which rely on combining materials from across the internet — work reasonably well but here are the drawbacks Vincent notes:
They’re tricky and expensive to create, requiring access to millions of images used to train the system (it looks for patterns in the pictures and copies them) and a great deal of computational grunt (for which costs vary, but a million-dollar price tag isn’t out of the question).
James Vincent, “‘An engine for the imagination’: The rise of AI image generators” at The Verge (August 2, 2022)
But they’re fun. You can sign on to the Midjourney server link and get prompts to generate an image yourself, as well as see what others have done. Mind Matters News tried it and soon discovered that, as Vincent has noted, art styles created…
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