AI Artwork

AI art : MidJourney vs Stable Diffusion

One of these things is not like the other.

I’ve experimented with stable diffusion a bit and published some of those results here on medium, but the more I see of artwork created by MidJourney the more I realise that stable diffusion is, to put it bluntly, a turd compared to MidJourney.

Don’t get me wrong, stable diffusion can be used to create some pretty good looking art with enough time and experimentation to work out a suitable prompt. MidJourney however almost seems to read my mind as to what I want so that even with no “prompt engineering” and a brief description it ends up producing something pretty good looking.

Personally, all the images produced by MidJourney have that sort of distinct look about them. What really intrigues me the most about this comparison is that MidJourney just seems to get what I am saying without me having to spend a lot of time “engineering” a prompt to steer it in the right direction.

In each of these comparisons, the prompt is the only thing given. Otherwise the settings are left at their defaults.

Comparison #1

Prompt: a fantasy village in the valley between two mountains. the village is bathed in the pale blue light of a giant moon. smoke…