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

They could have asked the ai and it would have told them.

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

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

It's worth the $10/mo.

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

They ruined it for the rest of us.

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

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

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.

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

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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.

Thats a good idea, no need for expensive design works

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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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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.

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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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