How Real Can AI Make Photos? Watch Midjourney try

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[@thaticelandicguy]

I've had a blast playing around with this, lmk if you got any nice ways to prompt that would help me level up :) + all the music and sfx that I use comes from here: bit.ly/2DS2LRK

[@mattduncan5500]

Brother do you have your prompts anywhere, the additional film add ons are getting amazing results

[@MichaelLaFrance1]

The Kodak Porta 800 combined with Polaroid, film grain, and flash photography is producing exceptional results, almost frighteningly good. Thanks for the tip.

[@reidmoto]

Awesome tutorial! Your tips on being specific with the shot as far as camera, the range/distance, film, was inspiring and I'm adding it to my list of things to study. Thank you for sharing Samson Vowles' prompt for ChatGPT. I took his Udemy course on Midjourney and have watched a lot of his video content, and he's a master. Your Polaroid testing gives me a great solution when I really need the human-ness to be solid in the image. Great work! I subbed and liked.

[@SimplyDingo]

I'm not using ChatGPT for prompts, but I'm using midjourney for around a year now. I mostly use the pictures for our DND campaign that we play online. My mind is still blown how good it becomes. Version 5 of midjourney can create really realistic photos, it's amazing. If you know however for what to look for, then you can quickly identify AI pictures. For example the face or the fingers. Sometimes even the light and body form doesn't add up, even though it looks natural for the eye

[@nycakshay]

I love your video!! Thank you so much!

[@huwkelvinmorgan3575]

as always thank you for a fantastic video, my thoughts on A.I generated photography are its only still photography at the moment that is easy to get your hands on and create its when A.I can create full videos even recreate well known movies and its up to you to inject different ideas as to what the mix of the subject in the film will be or say mix Back to the future with the film Jaws. i can foresee a time when we look back and remember when it was all so human with creativity right up to that point right now when it all changed and we gave birth to A.I creativity.

[@quirkworks4076]

Yes, this is threatening our professional way of life. I'm 20 months and 6 days away from retiring from a 35-year photo career and I'm just going to hit the road and shoot landscapes for pleasure. Have fun chasing the future, folks.

[@thaticelandicguy]

It's probably going to change things drastically for sure. What type of photography have you been working with?

[@quirkworks4076]

@@thaticelandicguy Started out as an extreme sports shooter (rock and ice climbing), then photojournalism (newspapers, magazines, books), then emergency medicine work (documentary), and most recently complex compositing plus product and lifestyle photo/video. My best and most creative work is still ahead of me, but on my own terms. I'll just watch the AI revolution from the sidelines. Love your channel!

[@thaticelandicguy]

@@quirkworks4076 means the world to me, and wow what a career you've had :) Enjoy creating for yourself, it's the best

[@nickfosley2882]

can you release some of the cyberpunk tokyo ai photos, i want to set it as my wallpaper

[@mrbad9171]

Please can someone help me , i want to use mid journey to make portraits for my characters in my fantasy novel , Will this cause any problems in the future when I start selling my novel?

[@sinnwalker]

I think ppl are too overfocused on 1 career, not realizing AI is gonna take basically almost ALL careers. That doesnt mean the end of life tho, but the beginning of the next, its the next step in evolution. But yea, it's all good (as long as we dont go extinct), things change, and we're in for a BIG change.

[@KingKemet]

Great vid, thanks for the tips. So midjourney is king for now?

[@timrosenthal46]

Ai isn't my thing but it has its uses. The big thing is to drop the words, photo and photography because it isn't either it's graphic design. Leave the real photography to us photographers.

[@Catsandcamera]

could be interesting if you did a side by side of a real photo and an AI image and try to guess which is the real one, yo'd have to get someone else to collect the images you' use but I think it would be fun

[@thaticelandicguy]

Super interesting idea!

[@AmbercoolPhotography]

It won't replace classic photos yet, but if it's edited or any art form of photography then it's over. I know photographers who make surreal photos like this and I think it's super threatening.

[@tjorvijons]

damn this is soooo spooky!

[@thaticelandicguy]

indeed it is!

[@alexameskoa1010]

Over the last I have also learned how to tell it's AI. It just has a "AI" look. I think as it gets better people will also get better at sniffing it out, kinda happens with exposure.

[@Atlas_21]

Lots of people posting AI generated 'photos' on instagram though and pretending it's not.

[@spiritakarabbit369]

The intelligent people know that this does not stop creativity whatsoever...that can only be true for someone who does not embrace their inner creativity and natural intelligence and internal love and light...yes...i mean it...people can still do what they love and utulize these tools to enhance their work flow...if u a photographer...the use of ai is to autoupload your photos....edit what you want adjust manually where you want the edit and how...using photoshop for example...and then the ai just promotes your stuff

[@ManuelAntonioRoque]

These robots sure can make some photorealistic pics! They'll put us photography folks out of a job 🤣

[@fctuning]

Amazing!

[@thaticelandicguy]

it's pretty remarkable

[@fin2-em2mf]

SPECIFY

[@wifil532]

How do I copy the prompt?

[@jessicalister]

You can go to the description of this video & copy the prompt.

[@MiridianCruzMendez]

I'd put one of these fake pics on my Tinder profile but I'm pretty sure that counts as catfishing lol 😂

[@saturnspike]

The example you use at 5:43 - Jedi with green lightsaber by Aleksi Briclot - is troubling. It already feels unethical that these AI's are trained on existing artists' bodies of work, mostly without their permission. But letting you explicitly specify the artist you want the AI to imitate is definitely a step too far, unless somehow you're going to pay them royalties.

[@thaticelandicguy]

yea I totally get you, also chatgpt is just mining data from all over the place. But I don't think it's possible to fight this, it's here and it's only going to get bigger. Maybe we can implement some royality things for artist, but I do think that copyright will look vastly different in the future.

[@pudsboi5203]

Clever stuff although I don’t like anything that threatens people’s ability to earn money.

[@thetechwave2050]

AI will change the way we live, there is no turning back, we just need to learn how to use AI 🙂

[@AustinDJones]

How do I make Ai generated photos of actual people?

[@lawell2006]

Are these actual people the ai has used? Or dreamed up by it?

[@Atlas_21]

It doesn't dream up anything, it steals from real photos and stores it in its database.

[@Rminder]

There was almost already everything fake on KZbin, Instagram, and now watching more artificial created digital world - yes, no problem for those who CONSUMING unlimitly everything. :) Others will celebrate normal, human created contents without closely trained A.I. models. A.I. will rips greedy content creators apart, so just keep promoting it as the other 100 youtube creators. :D

[@peternemcek373]

This is so sad man. Thousands of creative and talented people will lose their jobs because of this.

[@thaticelandicguy]

Yea probably, but with new technology comes new opportunities. I don't really see this going away anytime soon, probably just going to accelerate from here?

[@pedrorafaelfernandez7683]

All this AI talk makes my brain hurt, think I'll just stick to taking selfies on Snapchat instead 🥴

[@LennardCreative]

99 Percent will loose their job

[@thaticelandicguy]

not sure I agree with that big number lol, but it sure will be some consequences