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[@WholesaleTed]

Midjourney or DALL-E... which do you agree with? 🤔

[@vihangadesilva]

Midjourney

[@JustinMedeCM]

I use both, but Midjourney more. DALL-E is good for some of its features though

[@carnacthemagnificent2498]

Midjourney. What good are all the creative bells and whistles DALL-E came up with if they won't let you be creative?

[@Repossessionn]

Neither. Stable diffusion all the way. Locally hosted, no restrictions and no cost

[@Blackskillpower]

I used to be with Midjourney, but I've stopped subscribing to it. Now, with the integration of DALL-E 3 in ChatGPT, I believe the Plus subscription offers good value for the money. I just hope they'll tone down the censorship a bit

[@timothyneiswander3151]

I sort of understand them trying to limit celebrity specific images to avoid legal actions. I know Disney is quick to sue anyone that encroaches on thier brand but blocking an image in "Disney art style" is lame. That's like the difference of asking for it in surreal art style or Salvador Dali style. Nevermind they aren't ashamed of stealing his name for thier program.

[@WholesaleTed]

Yeah I am sure it is because of the onslaught of copyright lawsuits against ai companies. Even if they win, they are expensive to deal with in the first place!

[@clairee5544]

No one can legally block an image just for same style - just a heads up!

[@richardjones8236]

I'm really tired of these AI art creators deciding, after the fact, what is allowable and what is not. Then they can't decide if the art we create with their software is ours or theirs. When I buy a tube of paint from the craft store, the manufacturer doesn't try to control my painting. When I buy an art class from Udemy, they don't try nd tell me what types of painting I can apply their techniques to. So, if you want that much control over my art, then just hire me as your artist. I'll paint whatever you want.

[@tropistan7735]

I think this AI art is BS and a lot of people are going to have a rude awakening soon. If car manufacturers want subscription to operate a damn car, you can bet all these "free Ai" is going to bite people in the backside. Think of all the companies that sold lifetime software that have in recent years told those same customers that they need a subscription if they want to keep using the lifetime software they bought a few years ago. Or the media library the provides stock audio almost all KZbinrs are using that has a fine print that is lied about when YTbers do their sponsored video. The catch they never mention is that you can use as much music as you want but the minute you stop paying their sub, you are no longer licensed to use their music. Meaning they can copyright strike every video a KZbinr has made with any of their sounds. Nothing in this year of our lord. is free. They are using the Amazon model of luring everyone in and when enough people can't do without it, they are going to make people pay out the wazoo. There already dozens of AI platforms and all of them already expect people to pay for a bunch of characters with Picasso hands. No one want to learn an actual skill.

[@eurekaelephant2714]

@@tropistan7735 im getting tired of all the dramas around A.I too. It makes me just want to make my own designs, period. Store on a UBS. Period. Forget all the dramas that subscriptions have created and A.I.

[@HandleToBeDetermined]

@@tropistan7735 Just setup a local, open source Stable Diffusion, then filter out all the news of new shiny developments in AI tech

[@tjpprojects7192]

If they can illegally use people's art without their consent to train an A.I., thwn people who use said A.I. shouls be able to 100% whatever said A.I. generated. They only have rights to their code, not what their code does.

[@eurekaelephant2714]

@@tjpprojects7192 on that note, bloody Gelato recently pulled out from Getty images (I presume because they were suing another company for training A.I illegally with other art copyrighted to artists). So i have just lost half of my designs on my products! ( I put them together like a graphic designer would sorta, using bits and pieces). The wind got knocked out of my sails. At least I still have the ideas, but I basically lost about 3 months of work. Ps youre across the ditch in NZ, Im presuming? Im Australian. So im not sure I understood what you were saying about this code thing and A.I?

[@vegfam_lifestyle]

Hey, I just recently saw your videos. Thank you for your work and for sharing information! Huge greetings and respect from Warsaw, Poland. Peace and love. 🙏☮️✌️

[@45alamo]

Thank you for all the updates! I just started researching POD, and AI designs. You simplify things and explain them Thank you!

[@WholesaleTed]

Thank you. And also: congratulations on taking action! 🥳

[@chubbychaser00izu]

Fantastic stuff as always, Sarah. I also love your passion when you explain these events in extensive detail. Makes me listen intently. Thank you again.

[@WholesaleTed]

Thank you! I absolutely love making these videos and so I appreciate that you have noticed 🙏

[@EsuAudriusB]

Hello from the past Sara! Nice to see you again!

[@WholesaleTed]

Lovely to see you again too, I hope yesterday is a good day 👋

[@SandyHohaia]

Wow, appreciate your updates, thank you!

[@WholesaleTed]

And I appreciate you for your support, thank you! 🌞

[@tomzer1]

Great summary report of the news! Really informative and timely. Thank you, Sarah!

[@WholesaleTed]

Thank you! And thank you for supporting the channel 🙏

[@kwelbuys1152]

I love today’s Sponsor! ❤ 😊

[@recinsane]

I love your devotion and your dedication!! I’m looking for a software that will let me loose the box look. Maybe a fade of the image into the shirt

[@FragranceCraft]

I love ❤ that you sponsor your own videos 🎉 What a sense of humour ...😊

[@melodeelucido1446]

Thank you Sara. I like the news update videos!

[@WholesaleTed]

Thank you! 🙏

[@israelquito3072]

THANKS FOR THE INFO SARAH!!👍👍👍👍

[@WholesaleTed]

And thank YOU for your support, it means a lot! 🙏

[@TheGAutomotiveAndMore]

I have used the Printify A I generator and made a very cute Bunny yard flag. It looks great.

[@wing_teletran1]

Thanks, Sarah! The Printify AI Image Generator is awesome!

[@josephlevacher995]

Microsoft just doesn't want to be sued .

[@larrysmith9315]

And just think I’ve followed you from when you were a rookie good job!❤

[@vipanchika5059]

Thank you so much for your every help

[@relaxingsoundscapevibes]

I love you- that’s all! Your insight is much appreciated:)😊

[@sicshop]

Thanks. That's very helpfu videol. Will go through it again asap.

[@manifestingcocreator3221]

Love your content. And will be getting your book. You have so much knowledge. I'm an artist. And a lot of AI comes out looking weird. But can give you ideas as well as be used as a template

[@soulfulsunflower4328]

Printful's may be around a dollar more however their subscription is $4 less a month. The shipping price is the same tho, which I was surprised about because Printify usually has much higher shipping rates.

[@dcarlton35]

As always, good stuff. I've gotten out of the print on demand because i could not ever get any sales but AI has always given me inspiration on things i could do. Now that it's integrated with printify, i may look into it further ( especially due to the 2024 calendars)

[@WholesaleTed]

There are so many untapped opportunities with the calendars - especially the wall calendars!

[@traumerinkathleen4040]

ah and did you know that after the blocking sign you showed here in the video, you can still go to creations, slide the little button for showing blocked images, so you can see and use them altought? saw that just a few days before

[@austrofin]

I like all of your videos!!! Thanks for this vid.

[@Sunsetlover25]

Love the positive attitude always

[@belydion]

Thanka you, Midjourney

[@user-ix5wu1xz7t]

this is a great video I'll be watching several times as I go through the recommendations. Just saying this so it doesn't appear as invalid traffic

[@WholesaleTed]

Thank you I appreciate that, that is genuinely very thoughtful of you. Invalid traffic has killed many channels recently 😔

[@manjushrees422]

Hey Sarah, can you please clarify my doubt? Are the images generated by dalle-3 through bing free for commercial use /print on demand?

[@altheawright5431]

I am not yet ready for composing images. I am just in beginning stages of joining Etsy. I have two domain names. One for my Etsy account, and one for my private shop. Now, I am having a problem trying to decide if 360 or Pattern would be best for mirroring unto my own webpage. I would like the cleanest transaction possible transferring over to Etsy checkout. Also, I like the fact that I can also have non-Etsy Products with Pattern - can the same be done with 360. I have been looking for comparison articles but as of yet I have not found one. Could you help or do a video on this subject. Thank you.

[@theGermanrabbit]

OpenAi is contradictory. It says open but then they charge a fee. AI that is controlled by an entity will never be free from control.

[@drinkbooks]

No one is owed access to previously created characters and celebrity likenesses. You're not allowed to sell that stuff anyway, due to copyright laws. There's no point in having it available. I do think that old masters and period/movement art styles should be available and anything from the public domain should also be fine.

[@MortonMcCastle]

Printify's AI image editor sounds interesting to me!

[@Justin_W]

Wow! Thanks for catching me up on this news! I think there needs to be a better balance between Midjourney and Dall-E. As an artist, I can understand not wanting art styles or actual celebreties to be duplicated and used, but it does seem like Dall-E has gone too far. I am not sure what the answer is here on this. It's very hard to say where exactly the right balance would be.

[@flickwtchr]

In my view it has never been ethical to use contemporary artists in prompts, and I've never understood why this is a controversial viewpoint. It should be a given out of respect to contemporary artists. And no, it's not the same as traditional artists being influenced by other artists, not even close.

[@davidthescottishvegan]

Another fantastic video Sarah and I think i might get into print on demand mobile phone cases since there is so much money to be made out of them. Love 🥰 the video and love 💞 Sarah.

[@WholesaleTed]

Thank you! Your support means a lot! 🌞🌞🌞

[@ShadowFireChronicles]

The printify thing sounds interesting. I might try that.

[@lynneperry7454]

I have two dogs, both English Cocker Spaniels ( you know, big floppy ears, sad “they never feed me” eyes). You guessed it, my prompt was censored.

[@elenaredel3871]

Great video! Thanks!

[@WholesaleTed]

And thank you for your support, it means a lot! 🌞🌞🌞

[@user-kb4zr4yg4x]

Amazing but this is just going to make it harder to sell anything original now that everyone can just crank out any image by pressing a button.

[@taurusnyy]

Agreed , sadly i guess there will be less true artists. I also create my designs but feel like I may have to start testing the ai art.

[@cassielee1114]

The market for art and creative products is vast. There are always the designers that slap together other people’s images wether brought or stolen and the designers that create original work - both do well selling to different markets. Some customers don’t care how things are created - mass produced art and decor is huge. Then elsewhere, there are people who wouldn’t be caught dead with a mass produced canvas in their home, they like to be able to tell their friends about the artist and the purchase means a whole different thing.

[@jaceyneubauer6522]

It can be annoying but it might decrease online store being band for image copyrights

[@qqqcalls]

I noticed the constant warnings from Bing on image prompts. Very annoying.

[@kwelbuys1152]

Mentioning celebrity names or copyrighted names in your prompt is probably the reason it is being banned!

[@WholesaleTed]

Oh that is absolutely why the Tom Hanks one was not allowed. I am much more sympathetic to that one, compared to my first prompt that got moderated, haha

[@Hrz]

Even within Chat GPT the censorship is horrible, sometimes the fix is as easy as saying "I dont understand why this is against policy" and then it will start generating the image...

[@WholesaleTed]

That is an excellent tip!

[@heymrcody]

I created over 200 images in Disney art style before it got throttled way down. It was fun while it lasted.

[@YorkshirePork]

Great overview thanks

[@traumerinkathleen4040]

@WholesaleTed I am missing the detail in which resolution the dalle 3 with chat gpt results the images and if it could be used just right away (without scaling it up for higher resolution)? And i would like to know if there is a free way to add text without a paying version of canva. I tryed the free version, it generates always background and if i remove that with bgremover tool you showed, it keeps limiting the resolution to 500x500 and upscaling it with ai, it keeps adding shitty blurrs. If i try to vectorise the ai images, it adds light border lines and distances between colors and adds colors where before was a soft gradient. thats so annoing!

[@chelseyummali]

Yes I was trying to generate a warrior in front of a war zone back drop in Leanardoai wouldn't allow it. Leonardo as actually censored quite a bit of my promts lately if it has to do with war, blood anythingthing showing pain or hurt. On the otherhand I asked it to prompt a Doctor working on a cut leg and it generated a gruesome photo haha 😄

[@anwarsosko5963]

You Always Make things looks simple and easy but unfortunately non of that come with a profit

[@Property_experts101]

I just did it😅 Today only I joined printify And today only I got Al image

[@castielvargastv7931]

As a photographer i must say that even 4k resolution for photos is very poor. 4k is only 8 megapixel, a normal camera shoots 24mp or more. So for photos 4k is really low quality.

[@WholesaleTed]

Haha, there is a difference between a 4k photo, and what I am talking about here though. I am talking about producing images in high enough resolution to print in 300 DPI. Once you go above 300 DPI very few people can tell the difference between a higher resolution image, so it doesn't matter if you increase the quality. You are talking about taking a photo in high resolution, which will increase the detail the camera picks up so will have a noticeable difference on the finished product 🙏

[@goilo888]

I see no problem with MJ allowing the use of prompts that are censored elsewhere; I mean anyone generating an image of Spider-Man or Mickey Mouse STILL cannot use them commercially, so what’s the big deal?

[@MsSmartiecat]

I'm glad you brought up the censorship of images. I currently use Leonardo AI which I love but they too are censoring now. I sometimes do content on Elon Musk and would like to have an image (which is clearly AI generated) on my thumbnail. Now I can't generate those images. I'm thinking of switching to Mid journey.

[@WholesaleTed]

Midjourney has a lot less, moderation, so it might work best for you! With so many copyright lawsuits against ai companies it is not surprising to me to be honest that it has lead to this 🫠

[@DavidGridley]

@@WholesaleTed Mage, too, has started censoring some prompts with celebrity names

[@twisted_dot]

I'm not surprised. I use Leonardo too because of this comfy interface. And canvas are great. But for some time I started to generate on my own machine using SDXL. Sure. It's not that fast. But it's not limiting me at all. I could do even really dirty stuff if I'd like to.

[@petersoumanis5494]

Well, the celebrity image is not public domain. Sure you could take an image yourself, otherwise you'd need to pay someone to use theirs.

[@flickwtchr]

So you really want to tread into the waters of using a celebrity image of Musk to use commercially? Good luck, you may need it.

[@drgdfhg]

I love you, Sarah! ❤️🌟🍀 Thanks for the updates 💯 It should not censor it, but if AIs are so smart, why can't they generate "safe" images??

[@pat4005]

Because the company that owns the AI app, and pays the developers to write the code for their AI app, have to tell them what to add or avoid. The decisions on what is considered "safe" has probably changed multiple times since the creation of the various AI apps, and so the easiest and less costly way is to just disallow whatever the current circumstances dictate until the next app update. For example, if Disney got after an AI app developer about their IP being illegally used to make images that people were using on products that they sell online in MANY markets, it is less costly for Disney to go to the source and ask the developer of the AI app to disallow their users to request Disney style and Disney related artwork, than it is for Disney to pay many people to patrol all those marketplaces and sellers and request take-downs of their IP.

[@flickwtchr]

They generate "safe" images according to the rules of censorship embedded in the programming of course.

[@judilynn9569]

As a content, creator, and artist, I am always for the protection of copyrights and trademarks.

[@epicapexplays8467]

artists are definitely for the destruction and burrial of AI lol

[@terryofthefields3384]

It is the censoring & filtering of AI generators (which was completely expected in our current accepted culture obviously) which has made me always leary about some of your most valued advice, as the market will always bend the knee as needed for fear of losing support, investors & general profit.

[@vm.999]

Excellent content!

[@saulgoodman2018]

I was using Bing to make an image of Santa getting high. It wouldn't allow it.

[@WholesaleTed]

Considering that weed is legal in many jurisdictions, I just don't understand that moderating choice... 🤷

[@goilo888]

Just change “high” to “looking dazed and confused”

[@saulgoodman2018]

@@goilo888 I did get a couple. I just had to use smoking, instead of high.

[@sigmamalelogic]

Thanks!

[@HalkerVeil]

Can you imagine? Someone saying they own the style of Anime? A single person gets all funds made by all that "copyright" content that others made. Styles can not be under copyright for these reasons. So Microsoft is absolutely in the wrong.

[@WholesaleTed]

It's true that styles cannot be copyrighted. Otherwise, no one would be able to draw anything 😂

[@bobstewart6216]

Hi Sarah. Just a quick question. Does Printful limit you to 10 integrations on the free plan? Bob from Greymouth.

[@WholesaleTed]

Hi Bob. When you say integrations, what exactly do you mean - integrations as in item integrations, or app integrations?

[@okwrite7120]

Microsoft is reducing the risk of themselves being liable in any copyright infringement lawsuits. Spiderman is under copyright, the images of real people will have been based on copyrighted images used without the copyright holders consent. Some of the copyright holders such as the owners of Spiderman have very deep pockets and will go after infringement, they will target Microsoft because they have the deepest pockets. So this is Microsoft heading that off by saying we've put in controls to stop people generating images for things under copyright and have made reasonable efforts, so if there any court cases they can say look we've done what we can.

[@WholesaleTed]

I think that is why they are moderating a lot of these things too. By producing images with copyrighted materials, it opens themselves up to being sued. Now, they would probably win the lawsuit. But simply dealing with the lawsuit is, itself, expensive! So my guess is they are trying to minimize it as much as possible.

[@petersoumanis5494]

Wouldn't you sue someone who used your likeness for profit ? It would be reasonable that Fair Use would apply.

[@flickwtchr]

@@petersoumanis5494 I'm confused, didn't you just step on your own argument? Utilizing the likeness of a celebrity for profit would not be considered "fair use" to begin with.

[@petersoumanis5494]

​@flickwtchr yeah I didn't really finish that sentence. You're correct; usual Fair Use rules might allow some use of a likeness (say if you were showing an acting scene for education) , but would prevent a deep fake style video where some famous person's likeness was used without their permission, say creating brand new content and pasting on their face

[@Iron_ReapeR]

a style is nothing that is considered as copyrighted

[@sherpya]

unfortunately midjourney is not print on demand friendly, too much realism, dall-e 3 creates illustrations that are way more easy to vectorize

[@WholesaleTed]

I actually have had great success with Midjourney and getting images suitable to vectorize, although I have spent a lot of time in it, LOL, so I know how to prompt it now to get images that I want. One tip I always tell people is to select one of the lower detail settings. I spend most of my time at the lower detail settings, not the high ones. But I definitely think DALL-E is currently easier to use overall.

[@Uratz]

Dalle3 is great for coherence but very tedious to work with.

[@LuzuVero]

can I make an account from South America, or only in The US or Australia ? Thank you dear, you are the best!

[@WholesaleTed]

Do you mean for Etsy? It is available in several South American countries. You don't have to be in the USA 😄 and thank you!

[@OffTheAirScene]

What doesn't Micosoft try to destroy when their not apart of it or can't make a buck off of it.

[@egauci1]

Hmm I find most AI images need some individual editing so I’m not convinced things like 4x upscale in midjourney and printify images are that useful. I did make a couple of things in Kittl using their AI generator that worked out so maybe I’m being overly cautious

[@WholesaleTed]

I don't use AI images for complex pictures. I personally use it to create simpler vector graphics. These have a lot less mistakes and so requires a lot less editing!

[@flickwtchr]

@@WholesaleTed How much editing is required to get past Etsy's requirement that AI generated images must be altered in some way artistically.

[@elenaredel3871]

btw, do you use amazon merch as a platform to sell POD?

[@WholesaleTed]

Sort of. I have an account, and I sell merch that I set up for a video experiment. However I haven't added merch to it ever since, I just earn passive commissions from that experiment. I don't particularly care for POD models where you earn art commissions because the profit margin isn't as big (which is fair enough, not complaining) to running your own store, but that's just me.

[@elenaredel3871]

@@WholesaleTed thanks a lot!

[@HalkerVeil]

Nobody can own a style. Period.

[@YogaBlissDance]

Yes yes yes love the companies fighting- I was paying separately for image upscaler 9 bucks a month but still thats what $81 bucks or so a year?

[@WholesaleTed]

Exactly, the subscriptions all add up, it's nice to be able to cut one!

[@Sup3riorr]

at 7:46 there was a problem with your prompt you know what it was ? You used the term Woman, wich seem to be prohibited as if the word women is an idol of some sort. Sad times we live in, just for the sake of it try prompting something negative with man in it and you'd get surprised.

[@BirgittavanLangeveld]

Which image generator I like most? A real live human image generator! I't's called an illustrator. Most of them have better taste and eye for quality than all the users of AI imagegenerators together.

[@LennyYT]

You know what Microsoft and EVERYONE watching can destroy? THE LIKE button for the KZbin algorithm ! 👍👍👍

[@mr.hampton4982]

With Chat-GPT, you get an AI chat bot. I don't think MidJourney offers that.

[@WholesaleTed]

True... although it'll be interesting to see what the next version of Midjourney offers!

[@mr.hampton4982]

@@WholesaleTed Yes, and I am interested in seeing what Open AI delivers in the near future. I think the competition will drive innovation.

[@bdecreatorguy6060]

Baffled how much is Mid Journey,quotes £16.20 all over net,try and pay suddenly becomes £19.99

[@WholesaleTed]

Could it be sales tax being added on?

[@AR-gh1pc]

Wow… as an artist, I’m not sure I’m completely understanding what I’m hearing but it sounds very disturbing. I think sites like Etsy, which was a platform for handmade items is being overrun by POD, mass produced AI generated “Art” and it’s sad, really. I don’t think people are thinking about the consequences when they cash in on a quick way to make cash. Does it make sense that AI is spitting out images based on the work of real artists and those real artists had no voice in giving permission to do that and are being pushed out? And yes, I agree with an earlier comment, luckily for most artists most of the AI generated images are fairly lifeless.

[@just__dave]

What a shame. DALL-E’s image creation is amazing. Leave it to Microsoft to ruin a good thing.

[@tomasrazelo3271]

Copy write issues?

[@WholesaleTed]

Copyright issues? Do you mean with the censoring? If so, I'd guess that a lot of the censoring is related to trying to avoid copyright lawsuits, yeah.

[@gistus123]

Any company that censors art deserves to fail. Down with microsoft and dalle. Midjourney has always been the best for multiple reasons.

[@kevinbarske5635]

I've been holding off on starting a POD store because my accountant and lawyer recommend that I start a corporation prior to starting a POD store, based on our own personal circumstances to insulate our other businesses from possible lawsuit. I'm not sure i want to incur the extra cost to give it a go but with all these new AI innovations, I'm having second thoughts. Sarah, I know you're not a lawyer but what are your thoughts on incorporating?

[@WholesaleTed]

You're super unlikely to get sued unless your business is actually making substantial profits. It costs money to sue someone, so most people/businesses only sue if they expect to make a profit. If your business is new, then if they sue you, they'll lose money - not gain money. In your position, I wouldn't wait around to incorporate, I'd get started now and just get incorporated whenever the paperwork filing is finished - but that's just me. Here in New Zealand, incorporating is super simple - it's pretty much an instant thing after submitting.

[@kevinbarske5635]

@@WholesaleTed thanks for taking the time to respond. I love your content btw. Great stuff!

[@GUIxOWNxBUNGIE]

Yeah well, you’ll have to prove i used your software and sue me before i stop :)

[@daveoatway6126]

I am a free speech absolutist. Let the user decide what we want to say or see..

[@Aisan836]

My friend, my house is on fire and I have lost all my life, and because I live in Turkey, the daily income of 20 dollars is good for me. Please show me a way to deposit the income into a digital account. Please, I am in great need and now I am homeless. I am

[@alansmithy625]

Errrmm....As creating professional looking artwork is now open for anyone who can type a prompt (for free). What's stopping customers simply copying something they like, or designing their own image and getting a product printed and shipped themselves. Not only having the fun and creative satisfaction of doing the art (very very easily) but avoiding the markup price, if it was designed by a "shop owner"?

[@WholesaleTed]

Tbh, the ability to create art has not been a barrier for a long time, due to apps like Canva having insanely huge stock libraries for very cheap. It was, and is now, all about ideas. A cool picture isn't enough, you need to combine it with a unique product idea that is different and fills a gap in the market. It is an industry of ideas now 🙏

[@shiva.chennai]

Money come and go. But our virtual relationship would last for ever dear. I hope you won't mistake me. From subcontinent.❤❤❤❤ 5:37

[@views-re2om]

LMAO ! now people will flood with ai images

[@WholesaleTed]

Ai art doesn't magically make money. Good product ideas make money. Ai art can help you turn your ideas into a reality, but if you don't have a good idea, then the product will flop. In fact, the algorithms, such as Etsys algorithm, have an inbuilt mechanism to weed out the crappy products created to flood the market, and rise to the top the ones created off of a good idea. I am hoping to have a video out about it soon!

[@tomzer1]

Not to mention the marketing work needed to get them noticed. That doesn’t always happen with the folks spamming the markets with crappy designs, thankfully.

[@RyanJohnson]

kinda late to the party on this one aren't ya?

[@WholesaleTed]

This video series is a news roundup. It isn't breaking news 🙏

[@PhantomyreValentine]

Fortunate for artists-- AI art is still ugly.

[@goilo888]

You obviously haven’t looked through the MidJourney user gallery then. No comparison to the crap that gets thrown up as examples on various online outlets.

[@gosteampunkdotcom]

A lot of it is quite beautiful actually. The US gov said though that ai art would not be copyrightable, so that is good for human artists.

[@brytonkalyi277]

>> I believe we are meant to be like Jesus in our hearts and not in our flesh. But be careful of AI, for it is just our flesh and that is it. It knows only things of the flesh (our fleshly desires) and cannot comprehend things of the spirit such as peace of heart (which comes from obeying God's Word). Whereas we are a spirit and we have a soul but live in the body (in the flesh). When you go to bed it is your flesh that sleeps but your spirit never sleeps (otherwise you have died physically) that is why you have dreams. More so, true love that endures and last is a thing of the heart (when I say 'heart', I mean 'spirit'). But fake love, pretentious love, love with expectations, love for classic reasons, love for material reasons and love for selfish reasons that is a thing of our flesh. In the beginning God said let us make man in our own image, according to our likeness. Take note, God is Spirit and God is Love. As Love He is the source of it. We also know that God is Omnipotent, for He creates out of nothing and He has no beginning and has no end. That means, our love is but a shadow of God's Love. True love looks around to see who is in need of your help, your smile, your possessions, your money, your strength, your quality time. Love forgives and forgets. Love wants for others what it wants for itself. Take note, love works in conjunction with other spiritual forces such as faith and patience. We should let the Word of God be the standard of our lives not AI. If not, God will let us face AI on our own and it will cast the truth down to the ground, it will be the cause of so much destruction like never seen before, it will deceive many and take many captive in order to enslave them into worshipping it and abiding in lawlessness. We can only destroy ourselves but with God all things are possible. God knows us better because He is our Creater and He knows our beginning and our end. Our prove text is taken from the book of John 5:31-44, 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12, Daniel 7-9, Revelation 13-15, Matthew 24-25 and Luke 21. Let us watch and pray... God bless you as you share this message to others.