The Evolution of Midjourney: Presenting the Alpha Version and Leaning Toward Self-Sufficiency through a Simplified Interface
Expect new features and a more user-friendly interface.
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Many believe Midjourney to be one of the top AI picture generators in terms of range, accuracy, and astonishing realism of output. However, it has had one huge downside… until today.
Midjourney is a social networking platform that operates on Discord. This has its own oddities in terms of user interface and general user experience, complicated both the sign up process and actual usage of the model and perhaps discouraging some users from utilizing it. It also restricts the number of new features that may be introduced. However, it appears to be coming to an end as Midjourney begins to transition to its own dedicated website (to discover how it works, read our roundup of AI art courses).
Midjourney Alpha has arrived!!You should have access if you’ve created 10,000 or more photos. Because this is still an early version, things may change. But first, let’s take a brief look at picture production on the web. DISCORD, BYE BYE pic.twitter.com/JbS9L7e59P12th of December, 2023
Midjourney has released the alpha version of its own independent website, with access available to existing users who have contributed over 10,000 photographs. A transfer to a new platform may not appear to be a huge problem. After all, competitors such as OpenAI’s DALL-E, Adobe’s Firefly, and, most recently, Meta’s Imagine all function on dedicated sites. However, the move makes one of the most outstanding AI picture generators in terms of outputs considerably easier to use, boosting its UI and UX and allowing for the addition of additional new capabilities not achievable inside the Discord platform’s limits.
Midjourney is at the top of our list of the finest AI picture producers, but we observed that the UI was one of its major disadvantages (the other major one being its extremely dubious approach to copyright, since Midjourney was trained on photos stolen from the web without the consent of their owners). The platform has succeeded in introducing many new capabilities to Discord, such as panning, but it has reached a point where future expansion appears to be tough.
Several Midjourney users who have access to the new site have provided videos of how it looks and functions, and it appears to be a lot easier to use. It includes user-friendly sliders, and users no longer need to memorize the exact codes to utilize in text prompts to give the model specific instructions. Some users have claimed that the site does not currently allow rerolling or the faceswapping add-on, although additional capabilities are expected to be added in the future.
If you have 10k generations, you may now generate images on Midjourney Alpha.Most options, like as aspect ratio and stylization, are optional. Choose your options by clicking or dragging the slider on the menu.It’s quite simple to use: pic.twitter.com/mdgXu8FwTu13th of December, 2023
I just checked out the new Midjourney alpha website – clean UI, fantastic search and scroll! My pictures in a whole new light, far superior than Discord. For rapid experimenting with public prompts and references, the “Use prompt” and “Use image” options are game changers. #Midjourney https://twitter.com/cpdDSc5M0I 12/14/2023
According to Midjourney, the site’s social dynamics have also been upgraded. Users may more quickly explore, search, and filter photographs, as well as comment, like, and share them with others. Users will have the ability to personalize their profiles, settings, and preferences.
The platform is also developing a mobile app called Midjourney for iOS and Android that will enable users to write text and make graphics in response to voice cues. When it comes to the realism of their output, the consistency with which they interpret longer prompts, and how they handle text in images, other AI image generators like Google Imagen 2 and DALL-E 3 have been catching up to Midjourney. However, we anticipate that Midjourney will advance even further with the upcoming release of version v6, which is anticipated before Christmas.