The Rise of Generative AI Models and Their Impact on Creativity
Tags: midjourney, ai, generative, creativity
Published: 2023-03-16 21:50:55

On March 16, 2023, Mid-Journey released its version 5 model , offering images that are shockingly realistic. thanks to generative AI models that can create them in all shapes and sizes, making it impossible to tell the difference between genuine models and AI-generated ones, unless you look really closely at the fingers.

**The Future of Generative Image Models**


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Various companies and open-source projects are competing to be the best generative image model in 2023. Stable Diffusion leads the open-source project initiative, while closed-source projects such as dell a 2 from Open AI compete to monetize this space. However, in my opinion, Mid-Journey is the most impressive, thanks to its vibrant, realistic, and aesthetically pleasing images. The data set for Mid-Journey's black magic comes from unwitting photographers and artists who have helped hone the algorithm to perfection.


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It's interesting to note that the US Copyright Office has decided that generative AI art cannot be protected since there must be evidence of human authorship. It implies that con artists cannot simply use a ruse to license AI-generated artwork as copyrighted works. Yet, depending on the circumstances and after being changed by a human, AI art may occasionally qualify.

**The Implications for Creativity**


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Instead of requiring artists to continuously produce new works, generative AI models enable users to make an endless number of versions of works already in existence. Due of a lack of motivation on the part of content producers to produce original pieces of art, this invention can kill creativity. What's the point if a business is going to copy it and remix it into so many different iterations that no one can identify the difference?


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Some of these models, for instance, may create artwork or visuals based on anything you say, virtually acting as a prompt. The entire Mid-Journey paradigm is managed using Discord, which as of right present has no API. As soon as you're on Discord, enter the "/Imagine" command in the beginner channels, describe the image you want, and watch as the AI creates it.

There are a variety of additional factors that users can adjust to alter the models' output, such as changing the aspect ratio to alter the contour of the image or chaos to produce particular random elements in the output of an image.


**The Hope for Digital Creators**

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Generative AI models feel like a threat to digital creators, but there is a glimmer of hope. It's very possible that some existing art and images were created using AI. If you can't tell the difference between AI-generated and human-generated work, then what does it matter?...