AI art is one of the hottest topics when it comes to AI discussion in general, and there’s a question to be asked here. Is it possible to get a highlevel AI image generation for free, or is the future exclusively behind paid services?

I’ve decided to compare two of the best examples in each category: Stable Diffusion vs Midjourney to find the answer.


⚖Brief Comparison of Stable Diffusion vs Midjourney:


Currently, Stable Diffusion AI is an opensource texttoimage generator, freely available to anyone. It supports thousands of custom Stable Diffusion models, each tailored to a specific style, provides an extremely flexible customization model, and has a dedicated community that expands the possibilities daily. However, it’s also harder to run for an inexperienced user, and it requires quite a bit of learning to get a hang on.

Midjourney AI image generator is different in almost every aspect. It’s not open source, and using Midjourney is only possible with a heftily priced subscription. Comparing Stable Diffusion vs Midjourney, the latter is less customizable, and only has a couple of models, but they are extensive, and results created by Midjourney are of very high quality. It’s also more beginnerfriendly, to the point where all you need to use Midjourney is a Discord account.


AI training:


Stable Diffusion is very straightforward in its approach: it learns how to generate images by destroying them. The idea here is to add layers of noise over and over again until there’s barely anything left of the original image, just so that AI will attempt to reverse the process and recreate the original from just a few scraps of data.

Midjourney is closedsource, of course, so all we can do is make an educated guess. Such a guess would suggest that Midjounrney combines the same approach of Stable Diffusion, plus a large language model, or LLM.


Models:


Starting with Stable Diffusion, there are many versions of the default model by the same name. Stable Diffusion is trained on a wide subset, so it does a good job in almost every style, though it’s not as detailed or nuanced as Midjourney.

Midjourney is not that customizable, at all, and relies on a single, constantly updated model. However, due to the more indepth training, Midjourney has images of better quality, which come much closer to the prompt than Stable Diffusion.


‍⚖Can AI work be copyrighted?


In reality, it depends. As of August 2023, AIgenerated art can’t be copyrighted in the US, since the copyright law only protects works created by human beings. In a recent case, a US court ruled that a work of art created by AI without any human input cannot be copyrighted because it lacks human authorship.

But, you might have noticed a loophole here. “Without any human input”. That’s right, if a human artist uses AI to generate images and then modifies or arranges those images creatively, the resulting work may be subjected to copyright as an original work of art by a human artist.


00:00 Intro
00:26 Brief Comparison of Stable Diffusion vs Midjourney
01:58 How does Stable Diffusion AI learning work?
03:00 How does Midjourney’s AI learn?
04:50 What models can Stable Diffusion and Midjourney offer?
06:30 Can AI work be copyrighted?
07:30 Final thoughts


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