Midjourney is an artificial intelligence program and service created and hosted by a San Francisco-based independent research lab Midjourney, Inc. Midjourney generates images from natural language descriptions, called “prompts”, similar to OpenAI’s DALL-E and Stable Diffusion.
Midjourney is currently only accessible through a Discord bot on their official Discord server, by direct messaging the bot, or by inviting the bot to a third party server. To generate images, users use the /imagine command and type in a prompt; the bot then returns a set of four images. Users may then choose which images they want to upscale. Midjourney is also working on a web interface.
In March 2023, the CEO David Holz stated that Midjourney has blocked the generation of images of Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and president of the People’s Republic of China, in order to prevent the Chinese government from potentially censoring Midjourney completely over satirical images of Xi. Holz said that “the ability for people in China to use this tech is more important than your ability to generate satire.”
This won’t stop me to create a metric ton of stupid, weird, funny, and sometimes cool shit. So I’m going to add a few below. I’ve also added the prompts that were used to generate each image/grid, so you can make an idea about how far (or close) from the reality it landed. Most of the photos were done in February-March 2023.
- Boy and girl holding hands on the beach at sunrise, but they are happy foxes and they are smiling at the camera, with hats and a beach umbrella.
- Boy and girl holding hands on the beach at sunrise, but they are happy potatoes and they are smiling at the camera, with their pink hats in their hands.
- Cute lizard with a mojito cocktail sunbathing at the seaside.
- George Costanza saying “You know, we’re living in a society” in the style of Renoir.
- The little mermaid as a realistic black woman trap singer with tattoos on her face, diamond teeth and bling.
- Interstellar but if it was a 1980s communist drama about poverty and sadness.
- Tom and jerry, but they are real animals living in 1970s soviet union.
- Famous table scene from Doctor Strangelove, but all the participants are animals.
- The blues brothers, but they are gopniks in navy and green adidas tracksuits.
- Lana del Rey as warcraft Lich King queen.
- Michael Jackson as a worker in a communist factory in 1980s Romania.
- Pedro Pascal as a Turkish man working at a shawarma place.
- Satan but a cute goat.
- Satan but a cute cat.
- Satan but a cute snail.
- Satan but a Samsung flipphone.
- Realistic lana del rey as mayor of bucharest sitting next to palatul parlamentului under a glorious display of red, yellow and blue fireworks.
- Cat but the main colour is #5550ed.
- Romeo and juliet but they’re actually roomba vacuum cleaners.
- A wolf selling cabage in place Labouree.
- Une grenouille qui faisait la patrouille le sabre a cote.
- Realistic Ricky Gervais laughing as king of Britain with Britain crown on his head with the Union Jack and Big Ben behind.
- Ricky Gervais laughing as king of Britain with the Union jack and Big Ben behind.
- Ricky Gervais as a taxi driver.
- Isometric tile with a terrarium of plants in glass jar.
- Isometric tile with a windmill.
- Isometric tile with a farm house.
- Cyberpunk Back to the Future de Lorean in Bucharest near Palace of the Parliament.
- Cyberpunk Bucharest at night with neon lights on the Intercontinental hotel and National Theater.
- Cyberpunk Dracula standing next to a deLorean at sunset.
Sometimes, the results are so cute and nice, they’re worth upscaling:
- Realistic reunification of North Korea and South Korea under a double rainbow.
- Boy and girl holding hands on the beach at sunrise, but they are happy foxes and they are smiling at the camera, with hats and a beach umbrella.
- Photograph headshot of the most beautiful girl in the world, but the lens was very dirty.