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youretheweird1 t1_jefxlcj wrote

Reply to comment by xevizero in Midjourney ends free trials of its AI image generator due to 'extraordinary' abuse by hugglenugget

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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