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Midjourney: AI Art or Just a Fancy Filter? So, you’ve heard the whispers. Midjourney. AI. Art. Discord. The future is here, apparently. But is it good? Let’s dissect this digital chimera, shall we? What in the Algorithm is Midjourney? Midjourney is, at its core, a text-to-image AI. You whisper sweet (or not-so-sweet) nothings into…

Midjourney’s Pixel Pushers: Upscaling for the Discerning AI Art Connoisseur So, you’ve conjured up a masterpiece in Midjourney. A digital dreamscape, a surreal portrait, or perhaps just a really convincing picture of a cat riding a unicorn. But alas, upon closer inspection, your creation resembles a mosaic viewed through a dirty window. Fear not,…

Midjourney: From Taoism to Tech, via AI In the bustling AI landscape, dominated by behemoths like OpenAI and Google, Midjourney has carved a surprisingly visible niche. They generate images. Good ones, apparently. But beyond the pixels, a question lingers: where did that name come from? Not What You Expect “Midjourney” doesn’t exactly scream “artificial…

AI Turns Us Into Action Figures: A Toy Story for the Terminally Online So, the internet has a new toy. Literally. This week, we’re all action figures, meticulously crafted (or rather, algorithmically generated) in our own personalized plastic prisons, thanks to the magic of OpenAI’s GPT-4o and a healthy dose of online exhibitionism. It’s…

Midjourney: From Text to Trippy So, you’ve heard whispers of an AI that conjures images from thin air? Chances are, someone mentioned Midjourney. It’s the digital sorcerer turning text prompts into, well, something. Let’s demystify this thing. Midjourney is a generative AI. Translation: it makes stuff. In this case, it makes images. You type…

The robots are coming! Or, at least, they’re generating images. And the comic book world, traditionally a haven for human creativity fueled by caffeine and existential dread, is facing the music. AI image generators like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion are churning out visuals faster than you can say ‘uncanny valley.’ The big question:…

So, you thought ChatGPT was just for crafting passive-aggressive emails to your boss? Think again. OpenAI, in its infinite wisdom (and relentless pursuit of world domination, probably), has decided to cram AI image generation directly into ChatGPT. Yes, you read that right. No more bouncing between ChatGPT and DALL-E like a caffeinated ping-pong ball.…

The AI image generation space is getting crowded. Every week, it seems, a new model emerges, promising to be the next big thing. Most fizzle out, remembered only by the silicon they briefly inhabited. But sometimes, sometimes, a contender appears that makes you sit up and take notice. Enter: Reve Image 1.0. Reve AI,…

Grok, the everything-app’s AI sidekick, now dabbles in image editing. Naturally, we at 404.blog felt obligated to see if our Photoshop subscriptions were about to become obsolete. Spoiler alert: they aren’t. But the journey was… interesting. Grok lets you upload a photo and then, using the magic of AI, alter it with text prompts.…

OpenAI, never one to let a Tuesday pass without some form of existential dread, has unleashed GPT-4o’s native image generation upon the unsuspecting masses. Forget painstakingly crafting prompts for DALL-E (which, by the way, you can still use, says OpenAI, as if we’d forget their firstborn). Now, apparently, creating images is as easy as…