A few weeks ago, I was helping my sister brainstorm art ideas for a book that she’s writing.
We wanted to create art in a specific illustrative style and maintain that style throughout the book. The goal was to conceptualize the art with Midjourney, before working with an artist to create the final illustrations.
There were a few reasons for not wanting to use the Midjourney images directly, but a big one is that you can’t currently copyright AI generated images which I wrote about for DataDrivenInvestor here:
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Copyright’s weren’t an issue at this point though, because we straight up couldn’t achieve the output we wanted. Even after hundreds of prompts.
The problem? You can’t always get what you want
We found out the hard way that the style we wanted was virtually impossible to re-create in Midjourney using the words that we were intuitively describing it with.
And that happens to pretty much everyone I’ve talked to, including the experts.