How AI "Artists" are making money with Midjourney right now 

it feels like they are storming into a room and already yelling without listening.

Most people don’t even know how the damn thing works and are just repeating what others are saying.

> *the human brain is bonkers.* Amen to that - seems like internet discourse is effin difficult regardless of the subject - and for some reason it is easier to lose nuance, calmness, or to allow those things to get lost. It is frustrating as hell.

It’s not for everybody to understand and that’s the best part. Only for a selected few 🙋🏿‍♂️

Good work Out of context wanna know which mic are you using in this

most of our subscribers don’t get notified anymore. even the ones with the bell turned on. i think you just gotta check back because we still post at least two videos every month!

everyone can take a photo

@@Aryaxis Not applicable tbh. Midjourney is trained to be aesthetically pleasing so it's literally at a push of a button. "Floral patter" - baaam, hundreds of images. Gary is right. Market will saturate so fast.

That’s why it’s better used as an inspiration or iteration tool, concept art etc. Also I can see the prompts themselves being copy protected at some point.

if that was true then why are "gatekeepers" being mentioned? clearly we are now seeing that there is a massive difference between the "general stylized aesthetic" that the Ai model can produce in a basic prompt vs the individual style that makes certain Ai artist stand out, so these AI Artists are suddenly being called "gatekeepers" this is silly. The problem is not AI, the problem is simply the sense of over inflated entitlement of certain artists now being rattled because they shaking in their boots and their egos have been rocked. I am an artist myself, spent 18 years of my dedication to my craft I have been very successful throughout my career, I have no problem with AI, whether someone can copy my style or not it does not matter because when you reach a certain level or part of your career, your collectors are not buying your art only, they are investing in you as an artist. So if artist who are starting out can use AI its a great advantage because now they have a tool to assist them in advancing in their process in whichever way they choose, how they use it is really their business, and good luck to all of them. Nobody owns creativity, everyone uses tools and techniques, take away the tools and techniques from any artists and what will they be left with? So stop looking at AI art being the problem its fear-based.

@@cinematic_monkeynope, a lot of ai art looks cheap and lifeless and it reveals how tasteless the “average” of all artworks is. People who prompt put out more commercially viable ai art, and it is usually pleasing to the eye but usually in no way presents a unique outlook on life or humanity in any way, therefore to some not qualifying as anything more than commodity. I really hope how people will see this as time goes on

Definitely. Gotta hustle

Absolutely, I am director of photography and I often use mid journey as a tool to inspire new creative directions or working with art department in giving them a better idea what I am looking for.

If you can’t beat em join em

I think of it like this lower stylize the more the AI stays strict to the words in your prompt, the higher the stylize the more the AI goes wild and does whatever it wants.

​@@shakostarsuncorrect

For some that's true, but for some, that was _always_ true. AI didn't invent capitalism or greed, any more than it invented forgery and fraud. Greedy people gonna do greedy things. If you don't see the difference, that sorta suggests where you stand.

what secrets?

Midjourney is available to anyone that wants to buy it also there are tutorials all over the place so I dont understand the gatekeeping comment, if other people took the time to take the courses they can do the same things

@@oni_imagetv1331 the gatekeeping is referring to those who use AI to get their pictures, sell prints for thousands of dollars, and then don’t share any of the prompt keywords they use because “it’s hard to come up with them”. It’s not about the actual accessibility to the platform

​@@emilyr_8927hmm,so they keeping the prompts hidden ? Is that what u saying ?

​@@emilyr_8927because they don't want people to find what prompt is being used ?

I basically agree, the only thing is that we can’t know for certain that these images are the exact one the AI provided. If they made some edits, they might claim it’s a different “art piece”…

@@sprocket_holes The question will be if just "some edits" classify as significant effort or amount of creative work / human authorship that makes copyrighting it possible. For example, the comic book that used AI art and received partial copyright protection recently. It was determined that the individual images are not protected, but the book as a whole is. So you can just take the art of that comic book and sell it piece by piece and nobody could stop you.

Lol, that's a wil ignorant take, and you can't do that, I dare you to attempt making any money like that. You won't because you cant.

​@@Trespasnice hehe

But where does one sell them if one copies that artists work or at one at least makes ones with the prompt ? And Sell it to Disney ? What? I’m curious about how one does that ? :)

Honestly the generated phots are dope, but they should be like $15 not 1500 especially since it van take less than 1 hour to make

If someone would you pay for it, you not take it? lol ok

​@@bryantnojang709the art is in selling it for 1,5k.

​@@bryantnojang70915? Lol ain't selling for that low u nuts

​@@bryantnojang709I will create something and people willing to pay u potatoe

yes plz

printify

True. Masses aren't yet idiots to pay thousands of dollars for ai images

During the gold rush the people who made the most money were those who sold the shovels

@@friedchickenlover7291 haha. good said.

yes but the database of ai is completely filled with illegals scraping of websites like artstaion, shutterstock and copyrighted personal website photos

It's no creativity, that is called theft.

🤔 Art?

Well, she doesn’t really explain, but it’s quite obvious. People are using Midjourney to generate artwork, and then passing it off as their own and selling it online for some outrageous amounts of money…😮

Amen! Anyone can write a prompt, and even the phrase "prompt engineer" is ridiculous. There is no art to any of this, and the only "engineering" is knowing a few key phrases. It is at any basic level theft to use uncompensated work by artists and photographers to create machine generated images, and theft is what AI "art" is. (Also, isn't it simply cool to know that someone -- a person -- toiled and loved and hated a work as they created it, that the result is an ineffable expression of the human spirit and therefore "magic"?)

If you just enter a prompt and have an ai output an image that image can't be copyrighted. In order to be able to copyright an image the creator has to be significantly edited by a person. (What constitutes 'significant' isn't super clearly defined as far as I know.)

yes Of course you can ... you r the copyright owner... great idea though.... Don't forget to Send me your 1st copy 👍

yes it is possible, also if you want i could help

@@CrazyStreet69 oh that would be amazing. Are you on Fiver by any chance?

It’s midjourney, not finished journey

@@knightlight5497 Not me that said finished journey.

Basically once you make a site you can connect it to a system that will print and deliver your designs to your client without you printing yourself.

I really liked one of his images, but def couldn't afford it. So I created my own on midjourney and it is amazing! Also JP has a really snooty attitude

You can also use AI to upscale things.

I don’t understand your comment. You just chose useless category to work with. Any graphical designer can do all this changes what you described in short time drinking coffee. I know you wanna sound cool ai agency 😂 But let’s be real. If someone is paying for fake art, he is absolutely retarded 😂

You can actually create a very unique look if you know how to do that. Those people just don't know how to use the tool.