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It is March 16, 2023, and you're watching the Code Report.
Well hello my fellow Prumters.
Yesterday, Midjourney released its version 5 model in alpha, and the AI images it can produce are shockingly realistic, like the guy with the shocked face that got you to click on this video is 100% artificial.
As a programmer and content creator who recently lost his job up to AI, I've been looking for a new line of work.
My initial thought was to get into modeling because my mom says I'm extremely good looking.
Unfortunately, I found out that models are now obsolete.
It's now possible to generate them in all shapes and sizes, and you'll never know the difference unless you look really closely at the fingers.
There are many different companies and projects competing to be the best generative image model in 2023.
Stable diffusion is the leading open source project, then you have tons of closed source projects like DALL E from OpenAI I and countless others trying to monetize the space, but in my opinion, Midjourney is the most impressive place to prune.
The images just pop.
They're vibrant, realistic, anesthetically pleasing.
For that, we shouldn't be thanking Midjourney, but all the photographers and artists who unwillingly provided the dataset to create this black magic that will make their sons and daughters obsolete.
Interestingly, the US copyright office just recently ruled that generative AI art cannot be copyrighted because you need to show proof of human authorship.
If you take some AI art and modify it as human, then it could become eligible, but it's reviewed on a case by case basis.
That's good news because it means grifters can't just primp something out and license it to you as a copyrighted work.
The ones who will make the most bank in this movement are the ones who provide the models like Midjourney and OpenAI.
OpenAI started as a nonprofit, but then transitioned to for profit when they realized how much mother effing money they were gonna make on this thing.
In any case, I'm happy to pay $10 a for Copilot, $20 a month for chat GPT, and $10 a month for Midjourney.
Together, they put almost all of human creativity at your fingertips, making you a demigod in the digital world.
At the same time, it will ruined creativity because who wants to create art when you know some company is just going to steal it and remix it into an infinite number of variations to the point where nobody can tell the difference?
It takes the incentive away from true human talent.
Feast your eyes on this toad.
Had you told me Alex Gray painted it, I'd believe you, but he didn't.
I'm guessing his artwork is in the Midjourney dataset, but this is my artwork.
I proved it at fair and square, and here's how you can do it too.
Midjourney is handled entirely in Discord.
There's currently no API, but I imagine that's coming someday.
Once in the Discord, all you have to do is go into one of the newbie channels or your direct messages and type in the imagine slash command.
From there, just describe whatever image you have in your imagination and let it go to work.
Congratulations.
You can now put pruned engineer on your resume.
It'll create 4 different variations of your idea, then you can choose one of them to make even more variations, or you can choose to up sample them individually.
Currently, version 5 is an alpha, and if you wanna use it, use the v flag at the end of your prompt.
To get highly realistic images of humans, I would also recommend adding the q flag as 2 to increase the quality.
There's all kinds of different parameters you can use to change the output.
Some of the most useful ones include aspect ratio to change the shape of the image and chaos to control the amount of craziness.
The higher the chaos, the more random stuff you might get in the output image.
What's especially awesome though is that you can also provide a starter image, which can just be a hyperlink to any image URL on the Internet.
That means if you have a long lost relative, you can bring them back to life in new artwork and photos.
It's not going to be deep fake accurate, but it's still pretty creepy.
All of this generative AI stuff might seem terrifying if you're a digital creator.
However, there is one glimmer of hope.
It's very possible that you were made with AI, and if you can't tell the difference, then what does it matter?
This has been the code report.
Thanks for watching, and I will see you in the next one.

Speaker 0: It is March 16, 2023, and you're watching the Code Report. Well hello my fellow Prumters. Yesterday, Midjourney released its version 5 model in alpha, and the AI images it can produce are shockingly realistic, like the guy with the shocked face that got you to click on this video is 100% artificial. As a programmer and content creator who recently lost his job up to AI, I've been looking for a new line of work. My initial thought was to get into modeling because my mom says I'm extremely good looking.

Unfortunately, I found out that models are now obsolete. It's now possible to generate them in all shapes and sizes, and you'll never know the difference unless you look really closely at the fingers. There are many different companies and projects competing to be the best generative image model in 2023. Stable diffusion is the leading open source project, then you have tons of closed source projects like DALL E from OpenAI I and countless others trying to monetize the space, but in my opinion, Midjourney is the most impressive place to prune. The images just pop.

They're vibrant, realistic, anesthetically pleasing. For that, we shouldn't be thanking Midjourney, but all the photographers and artists who unwillingly provided the dataset to create this black magic that will make their sons and daughters obsolete. Interestingly, the US copyright office just recently ruled that generative AI art cannot be copyrighted because you need to show proof of human authorship. If you take some AI art and modify it as human, then it could become eligible, but it's reviewed on a case by case basis. That's good news because it means grifters can't just primp something out and license it to you as a copyrighted work.

The ones who will make the most bank in this movement are the ones who provide the models like Midjourney and OpenAI. OpenAI started as a nonprofit, but then transitioned to for profit when they realized how much mother effing money they were gonna make on this thing. In any case, I'm happy to pay $10 a for Copilot, $20 a month for chat GPT, and $10 a month for Midjourney. Together, they put almost all of human creativity at your fingertips, making you a demigod in the digital world. At the same time, it will ruined creativity because who wants to create art when you know some company is just going to steal it and remix it into an infinite number of variations to the point where nobody can tell the difference?

It takes the incentive away from true human talent. Feast your eyes on this toad. Had you told me Alex Gray painted it, I'd believe you, but he didn't. I'm guessing his artwork is in the Midjourney dataset, but this is my artwork. I proved it at fair and square, and here's how you can do it too.

Midjourney is handled entirely in Discord. There's currently no API, but I imagine that's coming someday. Once in the Discord, all you have to do is go into one of the newbie channels or your direct messages and type in the imagine slash command. From there, just describe whatever image you have in your imagination and let it go to work. Congratulations.

You can now put pruned engineer on your resume. It'll create 4 different variations of your idea, then you can choose one of them to make even more variations, or you can choose to up sample them individually. Currently, version 5 is an alpha, and if you wanna use it, use the v flag at the end of your prompt. To get highly realistic images of humans, I would also recommend adding the q flag as 2 to increase the quality. There's all kinds of different parameters you can use to change the output.

Some of the most useful ones include aspect ratio to change the shape of the image and chaos to control the amount of craziness. The higher the chaos, the more random stuff you might get in the output image. What's especially awesome though is that you can also provide a starter image, which can just be a hyperlink to any image URL on the Internet. That means if you have a long lost relative, you can bring them back to life in new artwork and photos. It's not going to be deep fake accurate, but it's still pretty creepy.

All of this generative AI stuff might seem terrifying if you're a digital creator. However, there is one glimmer of hope. It's very possible that you were made with AI, and if you can't tell the difference, then what does it matter? This has been the code report. Thanks for watching, and I will see you in the next one.
It is March 16, 2023, and you're watching the Code Report. Well hello my fellow Prumters. Yesterday, Midjourney released its version 5 model in alpha, and the AI images it can produce are shockingly realistic, like the guy with the shocked face that got you to click on this video is 100% artificial. As a programmer and content creator who recently lost his job up to AI, I've been looking for a new line of work. My initial thought was to get into modeling because my mom says I'm extremely good looking. Unfortunately, I found out that models are now obsolete. It's now possible to generate them in all shapes and sizes, and you'll never know the difference unless you look really closely at the fingers. There are many different companies and projects competing to be the best generative image model in 2023. Stable diffusion is the leading open source project, then you have tons of closed source projects like DALL E from OpenAI I and countless others trying to monetize the space, but in my opinion, Midjourney is the most impressive place to prune. The images just pop. They're vibrant, realistic, anesthetically pleasing. For that, we shouldn't be thanking Midjourney, but all the photographers and artists who unwillingly provided the dataset to create this black magic that will make their sons and daughters obsolete. Interestingly, the US copyright office just recently ruled that generative AI art cannot be copyrighted because you need to show proof of human authorship. If you take some AI art and modify it as human, then it could become eligible, but it's reviewed on a case by case basis. That's good news because it means grifters can't just primp something out and license it to you as a copyrighted work. The ones who will make the most bank in this movement are the ones who provide the models like Midjourney and OpenAI. OpenAI started as a nonprofit, but then transitioned to for profit when they realized how much mother effing money they were gonna make on this thing.
copyright
copyright licenses
intellectual property
art
patents
modeling
publishing
graphic design
infrastructure
artificial intelligence
finance
production
banking
animation
technology
industry
film
In any case, I'm happy to pay $10 a for Copilot, $20 a month for chat GPT, and $10 a month for Midjourney. Together, they put almost all of human creativity at your fingertips, making you a demigod in the digital world.
At the same time, it will ruined creativity because who wants to create art when you know some company is just going to steal it and remix it into an infinite number of variations to the point where nobody can tell the difference? It takes the incentive away from true human talent. Feast your eyes on this toad. Had you told me Alex Gray painted it, I'd believe you, but he didn't. I'm guessing his artwork is in the Midjourney dataset, but this is my artwork. I proved it at fair and square, and here's how you can do it too.
art
Midjourney is handled entirely in Discord. There's currently no API, but I imagine that's coming someday. Once in the Discord, all you have to do is go into one of the newbie channels or your direct messages and type in the imagine slash command.
From there, just describe whatever image you have in your imagination and let it go to work. Congratulations. You can now put pruned engineer on your resume. It'll create 4 different variations of your idea, then you can choose one of them to make even more variations, or you can choose to up sample them individually.
engineering
graphic design
modeling
Currently, version 5 is an alpha, and if you wanna use it, use the v flag at the end of your prompt. To get highly realistic images of humans, I would also recommend adding the q flag as 2 to increase the quality. There's all kinds of different parameters you can use to change the output. Some of the most useful ones include aspect ratio to change the shape of the image and chaos to control the amount of craziness. The higher the chaos, the more random stuff you might get in the output image. What's especially awesome though is that you can also provide a starter image, which can just be a hyperlink to any image URL on the Internet. That means if you have a long lost relative, you can bring them back to life in new artwork and photos. It's not going to be deep fake accurate, but it's still pretty creepy.
All of this generative AI stuff might seem terrifying if you're a digital creator. However, there is one glimmer of hope. It's very possible that you were made with AI, and if you can't tell the difference, then what does it matter? This has been the code report. Thanks for watching, and I will see you in the next one.
artificial intelligence
robotics
computer science
It is March 16, 2023, and you're watching the Code Report. Well hello my fellow Prumters. Yesterday, Midjourney released its version 5 model in alpha, and the AI images it can produce are shockingly realistic, like the guy with the shocked face that got you to click on this video is 100% artificial. As a programmer and content creator who recently lost his job up to AI, I've been looking for a new line of work. My initial thought was to get into modeling because my mom says I'm extremely good looking. Unfortunately, I found out that models are now obsolete. It's now possible to generate them in all shapes and sizes, and you'll never know the difference unless you look really closely at the fingers. There are many different companies and projects competing to be the best generative image model in 2023. Stable diffusion is the leading open source project, then you have tons of closed source projects like DALL E from OpenAI I and countless others trying to monetize the space, but in my opinion, Midjourney is the most impressive place to prune. The images just pop. They're vibrant, realistic, anesthetically pleasing. For that, we shouldn't be thanking Midjourney, but all the photographers and artists who unwillingly provided the dataset to create this black magic that will make their sons and daughters obsolete. Interestingly, the US copyright office just recently ruled that generative AI art cannot be copyrighted because you need to show proof of human authorship. If you take some AI art and modify it as human, then it could become eligible, but it's reviewed on a case by case basis. That's good news because it means grifters can't just primp something out and license it to you as a copyrighted work. The ones who will make the most bank in this movement are the ones who provide the models like Midjourney and OpenAI. OpenAI started as a nonprofit, but then transitioned to for profit when they realized how much mother effing money they were gonna make on this thing. In any case, I'm happy to pay $10 a for Copilot, $20 a month for chat GPT, and $10 a month for Midjourney. Together, they put almost all of human creativity at your fingertips, making you a demigod in the digital world. At the same time, it will ruined creativity because who wants to create art when you know some company is just going to steal it and remix it into an infinite number of variations to the point where nobody can tell the difference? It takes the incentive away from true human talent. Feast your eyes on this toad. Had you told me Alex Gray painted it, I'd believe you, but he didn't. I'm guessing his artwork is in the Midjourney dataset, but this is my artwork. I proved it at fair and square, and here's how you can do it too. Midjourney is handled entirely in Discord. There's currently no API, but I imagine that's coming someday. Once in the Discord, all you have to do is go into one of the newbie channels or your direct messages and type in the imagine slash command. From there, just describe whatever image you have in your imagination and let it go to work. Congratulations. You can now put pruned engineer on your resume. It'll create 4 different variations of your idea, then you can choose one of them to make even more variations, or you can choose to up sample them individually. Currently, version 5 is an alpha, and if you wanna use it, use the v flag at the end of your prompt. To get highly realistic images of humans, I would also recommend adding the q flag as 2 to increase the quality. There's all kinds of different parameters you can use to change the output. Some of the most useful ones include aspect ratio to change the shape of the image and chaos to control the amount of craziness. The higher the chaos, the more random stuff you might get in the output image. What's especially awesome though is that you can also provide a starter image, which can just be a hyperlink to any image URL on the Internet. That means if you have a long lost relative, you can bring them back to life in new artwork and photos. It's not going to be deep fake accurate, but it's still pretty creepy. All of this generative AI stuff might seem terrifying if you're a digital creator. However, there is one glimmer of hope. It's very possible that you were made with AI, and if you can't tell the difference, then what does it matter? This has been the code report. Thanks for watching, and I will see you in the next one.
It
it
is
is
March
march
16,
16
2023,
2023
and
and
you're
you're
watching
watching
the
the
Code
code
Report.
report
Well
well
hello
hello
my
my
fellow
fellow
Prumters.
prumters
Yesterday,
yesterday
Midjourney
midjourney
released
released
its
its
version
version
5
5
model
model
in
in
alpha,
alpha
and
and
the
the
AI
ai
images
images
it
it
can
can
produce
produce
are
are
shockingly
shockingly
realistic,
realistic
like
like
the
the
guy
guy
with
with
the
the
shocked
shocked
face
face
that
that
got
got
you
you
to
to
click
click
on
on
this
this
video
video
is
is
100%
100%
artificial.
artificial
As
as
a
a
programmer
programmer
and
and
content
content
creator
creator
who
who
recently
recently
lost
lost
his
his
job
job
up
up
to
to
AI,
ai
I've
i've
been
been
looking
looking
for
for
a
a
new
new
line
line
of
of
work.
work
My
my
initial
initial
thought
thought
was
was
to
to
get
get
into
into
modeling
modeling
because
because
my
my
mom
mom
says
says
I'm
i'm
extremely
extremely
good
good
looking.
looking
Unfortunately,
unfortunately
I
i
found
found
out
out
that
that
models
models
are
are
now
now
obsolete.
obsolete
It's
it's
now
now
possible
possible
to
to
generate
generate
them
them
in
in
all
all
shapes
shapes
and
and
sizes,
sizes
and
and
you'll
you'll
never
never
know
know
the
the
difference
difference
unless
unless
you
you
look
look
really
really
closely
closely
at
at
the
the
fingers.
fingers
There
there
are
are
many
many
different
different
companies
companies
and
and
projects
projects
competing
competing
to
to
be
be
the
the
best
best
generative
generative
image
image
model
model
in
in
2023.
2023
Stable
stable
diffusion
diffusion
is
is
the
the
leading
leading
open
open
source
source
project,
project
then
then
you
you
have
have
tons
tons
of
of
closed
closed
source
source
projects
projects
like
like
DALL
dall
E
e
from
from
OpenAI
openai
I
i
and
and
countless
countless
others
others
trying
trying
to
to
monetize
monetize
the
the
space,
space
but
but
in
in
my
my
opinion,
opinion
Midjourney
midjourney
is
is
the
the
most
most
impressive
impressive
place
place
to
to
prune.
prune
The
the
images
images
just
just
pop.
pop
They're
they're
vibrant,
vibrant
realistic,
realistic
anesthetically
anesthetically
pleasing.
pleasing
For
for
that,
that
we
we
shouldn't
shouldn't
be
be
thanking
thanking
Midjourney,
midjourney
but
but
all
all
the
the
photographers
photographers
and
and
artists
artists
who
who
unwillingly
unwillingly
provided
provided
the
the
dataset
dataset
to
to
create
create
this
this
black
black
magic
magic
that
that
will
will
make
make
their
their
sons
sons
and
and
daughters
daughters
obsolete.
obsolete
Interestingly,
interestingly
the
the
US
us
copyright
copyright
office
office
just
just
recently
recently
ruled
ruled
that
that
generative
generative
AI
ai
art
art
cannot
cannot
be
be
copyrighted
copyrighted
because
because
you
you
need
need
to
to
show
show
proof
proof
of
of
human
human
authorship.
authorship
If
if
you
you
take
take
some
some
AI
ai
art
art
and
and
modify
modify
it
it
as
as
human,
human
then
then
it
it
could
could
become
become
eligible,
eligible
but
but
it's
it's
reviewed
reviewed
on
on
a
a
case
case
by
by
case
case
basis.
basis
That's
that's
good
good
news
news
because
because
it
it
means
means
grifters
grifters
can't
can't
just
just
primp
primp
something
something
out
out
and
and
license
license
it
it
to
to
you
you
as
as
a
a
copyrighted
copyrighted
work.
work
The
the
ones
ones
who
who
will
will
make
make
the
the
most
most
bank
bank
in
in
this
this
movement
movement
are
are
the
the
ones
ones
who
who
provide
provide
the
the
models
models
like
like
Midjourney
midjourney
and
and
OpenAI.
openai
OpenAI
openai
started
started
as
as
a
a
nonprofit,
nonprofit
but
but
then
then
transitioned
transitioned
to
to
for
for
profit
profit
when
when
they
they
realized
realized
how
how
much
much
mother
mother
effing
effing
money
money
they
they
were
were
gonna
gonna
make
make
on
on
this
this
thing.
thing
In
in
any
any
case,
case
I'm
i'm
happy
happy
to
to
pay
pay
$10
$10
a
a
for
for
Copilot,
copilot
$20
$20
a
a
month
month
for
for
chat
chat
GPT,
gpt
and
and
$10
$10
a
a
month
month
for
for
Midjourney.
midjourney
Together,
together
they
they
put
put
almost
almost
all
all
of
of
human
human
creativity
creativity
at
at
your
your
fingertips,
fingertips
making
making
you
you
a
a
demigod
demigod
in
in
the
the
digital
digital
world.
world
At
at
the
the
same
same
time,
time
it
it
will
will
ruined
ruined
creativity
creativity
because
because
who
who
wants
wants
to
to
create
create
art
art
when
when
you
you
know
know
some
some
company
company
is
is
just
just
going
going
to
to
steal
steal
it
it
and
and
remix
remix
it
it
into
into
an
an
infinite
infinite
number
number
of
of
variations
variations
to
to
the
the
point
point
where
where
nobody
nobody
can
can
tell
tell
the
the
difference?
difference
It
it
takes
takes
the
the
incentive
incentive
away
away
from
from
true
true
human
human
talent.
talent
Feast
feast
your
your
eyes
eyes
on
on
this
this
toad.
toad
Had
had
you
you
told
told
me
me
Alex
alex
Gray
gray
painted
painted
it,
it
I'd
i'd
believe
believe
you,
you
but
but
he
he
didn't.
didn't
I'm
i'm
guessing
guessing
his
his
artwork
artwork
is
is
in
in
the
the
Midjourney
midjourney
dataset,
dataset
but
but
this
this
is
is
my
my
artwork.
artwork
I
i
proved
proved
it
it
at
at
fair
fair
and
and
square,
square
and
and
here's
here's
how
how
you
you
can
can
do
do
it
it
too.
too
Midjourney
midjourney
is
is
handled
handled
entirely
entirely
in
in
Discord.
discord
There's
there's
currently
currently
no
no
API,
api
but
but
I
i
imagine
imagine
that's
that's
coming
coming
someday.
someday
Once
once
in
in
the
the
Discord,
discord
all
all
you
you
have
have
to
to
do
do
is
is
go
go
into
into
one
one
of
of
the
the
newbie
newbie
channels
channels
or
or
your
your
direct
direct
messages
messages
and
and
type
type
in
in
the
the
imagine
imagine
slash
slash
command.
command
From
from
there,
there
just
just
describe
describe
whatever
whatever
image
image
you
you
have
have
in
in
your
your
imagination
imagination
and
and
let
let
it
it
go
go
to
to
work.
work
Congratulations.
congratulations
You
you
can
can
now
now
put
put
pruned
pruned
engineer
engineer
on
on
your
your
resume.
resume
It'll
it'll
create
create
4
4
different
different
variations
variations
of
of
your
your
idea,
idea
then
then
you
you
can
can
choose
choose
one
one
of
of
them
them
to
to
make
make
even
even
more
more
variations,
variations
or
or
you
you
can
can
choose
choose
to
to
up
up
sample
sample
them
them
individually.
individually
Currently,
currently
version
version
5
5
is
is
an
an
alpha,
alpha
and
and
if
if
you
you
wanna
wanna
use
use
it,
it
use
use
the
the
v
v
flag
flag
at
at
the
the
end
end
of
of
your
your
prompt.
prompt
To
to
get
get
highly
highly
realistic
realistic
images
images
of
of
humans,
humans
I
i
would
would
also
also
recommend
recommend
adding
adding
the
the
q
q
flag
flag
as
as
2
2
to
to
increase
increase
the
the
quality.
quality
There's
there's
all
all
kinds
kinds
of
of
different
different
parameters
parameters
you
you
can
can
use
use
to
to
change
change
the
the
output.
output
Some
some
of
of
the
the
most
most
useful
useful
ones
ones
include
include
aspect
aspect
ratio
ratio
to
to
change
change
the
the
shape
shape
of
of
the
the
image
image
and
and
chaos
chaos
to
to
control
control
the
the
amount
amount
of
of
craziness.
craziness
The
the
higher
higher
the
the
chaos,
chaos
the
the
more
more
random
random
stuff
stuff
you
you
might
might
get
get
in
in
the
the
output
output
image.
image
What's
what's
especially
especially
awesome
awesome
though
though
is
is
that
that
you
you
can
can
also
also
provide
provide
a
a
starter
starter
image,
image
which
which
can
can
just
just
be
be
a
a
hyperlink
hyperlink
to
to
any
any
image
image
URL
url
on
on
the
the
Internet.
internet
That
that
means
means
if
if
you
you
have
have
a
a
long
long
lost
lost
relative,
relative
you
you
can
can
bring
bring
them
them
back
back
to
to
life
life
in
in
new
new
artwork
artwork
and
and
photos.
photos
It's
it's
not
not
going
going
to
to
be
be
deep
deep
fake
fake
accurate,
accurate
but
but
it's
it's
still
still
pretty
pretty
creepy.
creepy
All
all
of
of
this
this
generative
generative
AI
ai
stuff
stuff
might
might
seem
seem
terrifying
terrifying
if
if
you're
you're
a
a
digital
digital
creator.
creator
However,
however
there
there
is
is
one
one
glimmer
glimmer
of
of
hope.
hope
It's
it's
very
very
possible
possible
that
that
you
you
were
were
made
made
with
with
AI,
ai
and
and
if
if
you
you
can't
can't
tell
tell
the
the
difference,
difference
then
then
what
what
does
does
it
it
matter?
matter
This
this
has
has
been
been
the
the
code
code
report.
report
Thanks
thanks
for
for
watching,
watching
and
and
I
i
will
will
see
see
you
you
in
in
the
the
next
next
one.
one
success
A developer expresses their desire to create a new line of work, specifically in relation to generative AI. They discuss various projects and companies competing for the job, including OpenAI and Mid bus, and the importance of showing proof of human creativity for copyright compliance. The developer also discusses the use of generative AI in their work and provides tips on how to create realistic and impactful models.
Midjourney 5 must be stopped at all costs
It is March 16, 2023, and you're watching the Code Report. Well hello my fellow Prumters. Yesterday, Midjourney released its version 5 model in alpha, and the AI images it can produce are shockingly realistic, like the guy with the shocked face that got you to click on this video is 100% artificial. As a programmer and content creator who recently lost his job up to AI, I've been looking for a new line of work. My initial thought was to get into modeling because my mom says I'm extremely good looking. Unfortunately, I found out that models are now obsolete. It's now possible to generate them in all shapes and sizes, and you'll never know the difference unless you look really closely at the fingers. There are many different companies and projects competing to be the best generative image model in 2023. Stable diffusion is the leading open source project, then you have tons of closed source projects like DALL E from OpenAI I and countless others trying to monetize the space, but in my opinion, Midjourney is the most impressive place to prune. The images just pop. They're vibrant, realistic, anesthetically pleasing. For that, we shouldn't be thanking Midjourney, but all the photographers and artists who unwillingly provided the dataset to create this black magic that will make their sons and daughters obsolete. Interestingly, the US copyright office just recently ruled that generative AI art cannot be copyrighted because you need to show proof of human authorship. If you take some AI art and modify it as human, then it could become eligible, but it's reviewed on a case by case basis. That's good news because it means grifters can't just primp something out and license it to you as a copyrighted work. The ones who will make the most bank in this movement are the ones who provide the models like Midjourney and OpenAI. OpenAI started as a nonprofit, but then transitioned to for profit when they realized how much mother effing money they were gonna make on this thing. In any case, I'm happy to pay $10 a for Copilot, $20 a month for chat GPT, and $10 a month for Midjourney. Together, they put almost all of human creativity at your fingertips, making you a demigod in the digital world. At the same time, it will ruined creativity because who wants to create art when you know some company is just going to steal it and remix it into an infinite number of variations to the point where nobody can tell the difference? It takes the incentive away from true human talent. Feast your eyes on this toad. Had you told me Alex Gray painted it, I'd believe you, but he didn't. I'm guessing his artwork is in the Midjourney dataset, but this is my artwork. I proved it at fair and square, and here's how you can do it too. Midjourney is handled entirely in Discord. There's currently no API, but I imagine that's coming someday. Once in the Discord, all you have to do is go into one of the newbie channels or your direct messages and type in the imagine slash command. From there, just describe whatever image you have in your imagination and let it go to work. Congratulations. You can now put pruned engineer on your resume. It'll create 4 different variations of your idea, then you can choose one of them to make even more variations, or you can choose to up sample them individually. Currently, version 5 is an alpha, and if you wanna use it, use the v flag at the end of your prompt. To get highly realistic images of humans, I would also recommend adding the q flag as 2 to increase the quality. There's all kinds of different parameters you can use to change the output. Some of the most useful ones include aspect ratio to change the shape of the image and chaos to control the amount of craziness. The higher the chaos, the more random stuff you might get in the output image. What's especially awesome though is that you can also provide a starter image, which can just be a hyperlink to any image URL on the Internet. That means if you have a long lost relative, you can bring them back to life in new artwork and photos. It's not going to be deep fake accurate, but it's still pretty creepy. All of this generative AI stuff might seem terrifying if you're a digital creator. However, there is one glimmer of hope. It's very possible that you were made with AI, and if you can't tell the difference, then what does it matter? This has been the code report. Thanks for watching, and I will see you in the next one.
A developer expresses their desire to create a new line of work, specifically in relation to generative AI. They discuss various projects and companies competing for the job, including OpenAI and Mid bus, and the importance of showing proof of human creativity for copyright compliance. The developer also discusses the use of generative AI in their work and provides tips on how to create realistic and impactful models.