But the tools have starkly different guidelines for what’s acceptable. OpenAI’sinstruct DALL-E users to stick to “G-rated” content and blocks the creation of images involving politicians as well as “major conspiracies or events related to major ongoing geopolitical events.”
On Tuesday, the company discontinued free trials because of “extraordinary demand and trial abuse,” Holz wrote on Discord, suggesting that nonpaying users were mishandling the technology and saying that its “new safeties for abuse … didn’t seem to be sufficient.” Monthly subscription fees range from $10 to $60.
with The Washington Post last September, Holz said Midjourney was a “very small lab” of “10 people, no investors, just doing it for the passion, to create more beauty, and expand the imaginative powers of the world.”Midjourney, he said at the time, had 40 moderators in different countries, some of whom were paid, and that the number was constantly changing.
The company’s online terms of service seek to address copyright concerns. “We respect the intellectual property rights of others,” the terms state, providing directions about how to contact the company with a claim of copyright infringement. The terms of service also specify that users own the content they create only if they are paying members.in the federal lawsuit states that Holz is the lone person with a financial interest in the company.
In the race to build AI image generators, Midjourney gained an early lead over its competitors last summer by producing more artistic, surreal generations. That technique was on display when the owner of a fantasy board-game company used Midjourney toThe highly aesthetic quality of the images also seemed, at least to Holz, like a hedge against abuse of the tool to create photorealistic imagesin an August interview with the Verge.
“There are days where the change of pace in terms of AI throws me off, and I’m like: This is moving too fast. How are we going to wrap our minds around this?” The lifelike detail of the scenes stunned some viewers on a Reddit discussion forum devoted to Midjourney, with one commenterOthers, though, worried about how the tool could be misused. “What scares me the most is nuclear armed nations … generating fake images and audio to create false flags,” one commenter said. “This is propaganda gold.”
ALL of these fake images/ deep fake companies should be shut down.
Fake images are as bad as fake stories.
Fake imgages? They could work for the Wa Po and combine it with shitty reporting and fake stories. It would be a trifecta
Can’t see how this could go wrong.
As if we NEED something like this...geesh.