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ztpurcell t1_ject0c0 wrote

Is it really extraordinary though? Have they seen the internet?

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VincentNacon t1_jeeeb8x wrote

Extraordinary abuse of "not getting paid" is more like it.

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daikatana t1_jecx86e wrote

Great, now you have to pay them to abuse it. Also, that sucks, I just started playing with it.

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youretheweird1 t1_jedbre0 wrote

It's worth the $10/mo.

Also, the abuse was in the trial accounts. Not actually using it.

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xevizero t1_jedqg1c wrote

I actually went for the 30$ one for two months because I was just having too much fun. I did grow bored eventually and I'm now canceling.

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youretheweird1 t1_jefxlcj wrote

I can totally see that if you're just playing around with it for fun. I use it for a couple different creative projects I'm working on. And just to make pretty, interesting things, of course!

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xevizero t1_jeg6utk wrote

I did use it for projects as well. This month I made a game prototype for itch and used Midjourney for some of the art. I also made some other minor projects with it for fun. Other than that yeah, just wallpapers, stuff for d&d campaigns and memes. It's totally worth it for the average Joe considered that 1 year ago I was looking for the same jobs to be done and it would have costed me hundreds of dollars to hire a good artist online. Now I can do it on my own, maybe it's not as good but it's better than nothing. The issue is, the artist gets screwed in this equation )= and next month I could be next, we're all replaceable now.

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youretheweird1 t1_jegp70l wrote

Truth. I personally only use it for inspiration. I don't put AI art in anything and I don't use "in the style of" type prompts. Generally, if an artist hasn't come right out and said they despise AI, they either will or they're dead. I appreciate artists too much not to care.

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xevizero t1_jegqwjj wrote

I tried doing the same but found that I could come up with better ideas on my own ironically. I use it when I need a bunch of low quality assets that would otherwise be an afterthought. I was making a card game prototype and I was working solo, so I had no time to really make a different card art for each one..normally I would have had a few redundant placeholder artworks and I would have recycled them for similar cards, or I would have straight up removed the images from the cards, but with Midjourney I could quickly make a bunch of okay images, then I passed them through a few filters to make them appropriate for the game vibe and..that was about it, 2 hours of work and I had something I would have otherwise straight up skipped. But when I asked Midjourney to make anything more specific or important, usually it failed and I went back to manual drawing for stuff like enemies etc.

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Utoko t1_jedzc1w wrote

If you don't need photorealistic pictures leonardo.ai is fantastic too, and you can generate 150 pictures for free each day. Has a waitlist but I got in after a couple hours.

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MetalsDeadAndSoAmI t1_jed9a7a wrote

Oh, funny pictures of celebrities and public figures is usually how I use up my remaining minute credits at the end of the month. 😂

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AmyKerr12 t1_jee9sc8 wrote

The thing is trial users abused the system by creating a lot of “side” accounts to get away without paying. This colossal number of fake “one-day” accounts overloaded the whole system and made it unusable for members.

That’s why MJ Team had to block an access to free trial users.

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PotentialStatement86 t1_jednj2n wrote

I’m so glad I’ve used up all my free credits.

Oh well, time to have some fun the legit way.

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on-ap t1_jedqg7c wrote

what do you use it actually for? just to create some fun images? whats the use case?

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Dank_Passenger t1_jedubin wrote

Not sure what the typical use case is, but I'm a dungeon master for D&D and I use it to make pictures of buildings, environments and NPCs to show my players to help them get a better idea of where they are and who they are talking to.

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on-ap t1_jedvqmf wrote

Thats a good idea, no need for expensive design works

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ethanwc t1_jedltj7 wrote

They ruined it for the rest of us.

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VincentNacon t1_jeeele8 wrote

Did they though? You can run your own with Stable Diffusion and actually choose your own models instead of theirs "exclusive" model. There's a website that has a bunch of models to download. You also can train your own model as well.

MJ isn't that special.

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powersv2 t1_jeeb9u0 wrote

They dont have a mechanism for misuse, or a plan. Smh.

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