While it's a huge win to be open source, I find the results always inferior to Midjourney (and DALL-E).
I tried to generate some artistic results with variety of prompts and Midjourney always won hands down.
But of course, since it's open source, many community tweaks and colab notebooks/forks will probably put it in par with DALL-E by time. But I have trouble imagining Stable Diffusion competing against Midjourney anytime soon: the different is day and night.
If the beta they introduced briefly for a few days was SD, I had to add that it always, 100% of the time, procuded much inferior results compared to the MJ "v3".
It was so bad that if they'd replaced v3 with it (good that they didn't) I'd probably have stopped using MJ and had cancelled my subscription.
The stable diffusion model will replace the v3 model soon as it's actually superior in coherence and details (I don't know how you can actually say otherwise) but the model v3 will still be available as the v2.
"Thousands of people," you're the only person I've seen on the Internet screaming about how horrible the beta was. You can go check out the Midjourney subreddit and you'll see that people really like it.
In fact, the beta has since returned. The team is just finetuning the pre- and post-processing pipeline, and the new model will be ready for use.
Well, I spend hours in the actual Discord and many people complain there. SD-based beta is simply not artistic enough for most folks, turning it into more like DALL-E. It's not surprising that people generally put the good results on the sub, not failed attempts.
I was not talking about good results, but about people's reaction. The artistic vibes that the v3 model offers are nothing but clever pre- and post-processing, when the SD-based model comes out it will give you similar vibes.
The row of three pics near the top of the article are from a new model they have in the works that uses SD under the hood. It was available briefly as a test run. MJ’s additional magic over SD gets even better results.
While it's a huge win to be open source, I find the results always inferior to Midjourney (and DALL-E).
I tried to generate some artistic results with variety of prompts and Midjourney always won hands down.
But of course, since it's open source, many community tweaks and colab notebooks/forks will probably put it in par with DALL-E by time. But I have trouble imagining Stable Diffusion competing against Midjourney anytime soon: the different is day and night.