After the hot topic of ChatGPT, people are gaining a closer correlation with the use of AI tools. If we categorize these AI platforms, then ChatGPT should belong to a language model like chatbots. What’s more, there’s another kind of AI generator: Midjourney, a visual-based intelligence program. What does it do? Basically, according to the text-to-image model, Midjourney produces pictures via inputting keywords. This sounds simple to function, right? Yes, it sure is!
For visual creators and designers, Midjourney is their right hand. You only have to provide several or a long list of keywords and then this image generator will output a scene that is full of unrestrained imagination. For example, a self-assumed Midjourney designer on Instagram posts abundant pictorial works resulting from Midjourney.
As you can see in the artworks above: a group of old women play skateboards easily to have fun; A huge cruise that often exists in oceans but now appears in an urban city; Indigenous people in an Indian village live with insects like bots. These images let me reflect on one word: creativity. This AI generator can create infinite images based on humans’ orders. It has access to all the public image resources storage which allows it to produce nearly perfect and satisfying or even more unexpected and surprising pictorial creations.
For instance, the photo of an aged women playing skateboards looks joyful and lovely, right? Similarly, on Midjourney if you type in words like “cruise,” “urban city,” and “street,” then you may get a picture like the second one above. We feel that it’s incredible to produce a miraculous setting like that because we are likely to separate things that look irrelevant to each other. People’s conventional thinking limits the freedom of our creativity. It is hard to link opposite parts together, yet this is the exact logic of how Midjourney works. Or, perhaps, it’s something that we assume we are not able to do but we would like AI generators to fulfill our wish.
Midjourney combines the existing information and visuals on the database of the internet with one’s instructions, enabling to free the world of images. It seems like design careers have become the responsibility of AL tools. What I mean is that I begin to be skeptical that AI image generator seem smarter than humans. In effect, this is not merely the concern of my own, yet, there are a huge number of individuals gradually start to consider the essential difference between humans and artificial intelligence. Designers worry that image generators like Midjourney are far more capable than our prediction. Nevertheless, in the meanwhile, don’t forget that they are just instruments used to help us.
Midjourney is people’s extension of creativity. They appropriately reflect the imaginary photo happening in our minds and use technical support to reappear the creations in our assumption. Therefore, the advent of Midjourney is not myths, whereas it’s the shortcut for humans to make creativity come true. Last but not the least, it doesn’t always mean that the AI generator can replace humans’ innovativeness since it’s always people who constantly give commands to AI and let it draw out our imaginative thoughts. In a rapidly developing contemporary age, who will be that stupid to not borrow from the power of AI?
Bibliography
Mcluhan, Marshall. The Medium Is the Message. Corte Madera Gingko Press, 1967.
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