AI, ChatGPT, and Beyond

Getting Started with Midjourney

Midjourney is an image generator similar to DALL-E 3 and considered "state of the art." 

• Those comfortable with using Discord state Midjourney has the lowest learning curve. However, the tool may be challenging to use if not familiar with Discord. 
• Midjourney also does not currently offer a free version, with the basic plan. starting at $10/month. 

The below photo shows a comparison (provided by Ethan Mollick) of the output of four different tools (clockwise from top left: Adobe, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney, from the prompt: “Fashion photoshoot of sneakers inspired by Van Gogh” - the first images that were created by each model. 

• Note: The image on the bottom left was created by Stable Diffusion (Stability.ai). This tool is open source and you can run it from any high-end computer. It takes effort to get started, since you have to learn to craft prompts properly, but once you do it can produce great results. It is especially good for combining AI with images from other sources. Here is a nice guide to Stable Diffusion if you go that route (be sure to read both parts 1 and part 2).

Helpful Midjourney guides

• Quickstart Guide to using Midjourney
• Midjourney requires Discord. Here is a guide to .using Discord.

Attributions

"How to Use AI to Do Stuff: An Opinionated Guide"by Ethan Mollickis licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0