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by TaupeRanger
1431 days ago
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DALLE-2 is not in any way "on par" with human designers, unless they are designers of the things I already mentioned like album art or stock photos. Even with the latter it's not particularly good unless the subject involves something that doesn't require fine detail to look decent. Midjourney is not breaking even because it creates useful, high quality art. It is breaking even because of the novelty of DALL-E and I don't think it will last particularly long in the spotlight. |
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One has a much smaller customer base than the other and effectively amounts to, as you suggest, a hype club that finetunes open works and monetizes by giving early access to members.
The other is backed by Microsoft and currently scales to 100,000 users.
To answer your question - not everyone spent their time learning to master art and design. The idea that this is stuff is trivial and devoid of value for a beginner is non-sense. It is useful anytime a coder is in need of custom assets matching an English description. Will it offend some artistic sensibilities? Probably, but have you looked around lately? Nobody cares about that anyway, unfortunately.