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Midjourney Ai and DALL-E Ai Art Generators

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I recently received an invite to join Midjourney from a fellow artist friend of mine. It's a platform on DISCORD that lets you create a piece of art by simply describing it and the Ai in Midjourney does the rest. I had vaguely heard about this a while back but back then you had to get an invite from someone on the forum and I didn't know anyone who was on the forum. my friend and I both did and were into dark, Surrealist/Metaphysical Art so he thought it would be great for me to try out. Dall-E is also an Ai Art generating site which does a similar job of creating art just from descriptions you give it. Although these sites have been around for a while , I just recently tried out Midjourney.


MIDJOURNEY Ai





DALL-E
DALL E Image Generator - The Next Generation Text-To-Image AI - NightCafe Creator





I used my free Trial to generate the art below. The Description I gave Midjourney was "AN END OF THE WORLD FOR VAMPIRES " It gave me back some really dark imagery.







 
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What's interesting is that this is far more interesting output than a lot of digital artists who think they're special because they use 'traditional' tools like Photoshop. This is also a potential source for endless NFTs! LOL But "AI" generated art goes back to the 1980s so this isn't really new to me.

Questions raised: why am I even asked to pay $1M+ for modern art when I can get it for free? Who owns the copyright to these images? Will software be able to write entire scripts? Software is great at abstract things but can it create refined things?
 
Karim D. Ghantous said:
What's interesting is that this is far more interesting output than a lot of digital artists who think they're special because they use 'traditional' tools like Photoshop. This is also a potential source for endless NFTs! LOL But "AI" generated art goes back to the 1980s so this isn't really new to me.

Questions raised: why am I even asked to pay $1M+ for modern art when I can get it for free? Who owns the copyright to these images? Will software be able to write entire scripts? Software is great at abstract things but can it create refined things?
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Karim,

Here is their Terms Of Use

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why am I even asked to pay $1M+ for modern art when I can get it for free?
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That's a tricky question. You're basically paying for art from specific artists whom may have initiated a unique Artist movement like Picasso and cubism and Braque in cubism and fauvism and how Cubism influenced Futurism, Suprematism, Dada, Constructivism, Vorticism, De Stijl and Art Deco. a European Surrealism movement had visual artist like Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Francis Picabia, Yves Tanguy, Salvador Dalí, Luis Buñuel, Alberto Giacometti, Valentine Hugo, Méret Oppenheim, Toyen, Kansuke Yamamoto. Their work initiated a new way of artistic expression during major life events like Pre- and Post- World Wars and they mark major cultural and societal shifts .So works by the initiators of specific artistic movement will have a much higher value than art created by artists who are simply coping from the masters.

Sometimes you pay more for art from artists whom created a vast amount of work in a specific stage in their life whom may have never created in that specific style again.

There are numerous other reasons some legitimate and some just over hyped bullshit.
 
Here are more images by others on MIDJOURNEY

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I've been messing around with a site called Craiyon. Interesting results. Some images are boring. But some images are quite disturbing - but hey that's what a lot of people crave. Odd how we are attracted to that stuff, but we are.
 
Karim D. Ghantous said:
I've been messing around with a site called Craiyon. Interesting results. Some images are boring. But some images are quite disturbing - but hey that's what a lot of people crave. Odd how we are attracted to that stuff, but we are.
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Karem,

It's what surrealism and metaphysical art does. It tries to make tangible abstract thoughts, dreams, nightmares....ect. It's kinda of related to what Carl Jung called the "The Collective Unconscious" explained below.

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Also if you're ever interested, JORDAN PETERSON and others talk about and discuss what CARL JUNG calls "THE SHADOW" and how to best integrate it within yourself.


Youtube Links
Carl jung shadow - YouTube


Back on topic, basically we all have access to some great collective knowledge. When great artists are able to get closer to "tapping into" that knowledge, especially artists doing dark surrealist type art, we all have a kinda of visceral reaction to it. Sometimes you might not know why you had such a strong reaction to art that you found disturbing.

In the early part of the last century psychologist, sociologist and others conducted some tests. They gave the most severely mentally ill patients at some hospitals blank canvases to draw/paint whatever they wanted on them. After a while the medical health care professionals observed what they either had drawn or painted. They compared it to some of the works of some of the greatest surrealist and cubist artists of that time and found that they were strikingly the same. These patients had never seen any of these artists art work before. What psychologist and sociologist concluded was that those artists of that time were able to tap into at a much greater degree than the average person was "The Collective Unconscious". The mental patients at the those hospitals, due to their mental illness were also able to tap into it as well. The only difference was that while the artists where able to go there and find a way back the mental patients never did.
 
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