A journey into the poetic world of AI art making

Mitch Goodwin dives into the world of generative art making through AI with its ‘painterly output and poetic interactions’.

Generative art making is flourishing. Algorithms that turn text prompts into images, such as DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, are emerging as viable creative tools. And they’re fuelling much debate about their artistic legitimacy and potential to pinch our jobs.

MidJourney – or MJ as it is known to its passionate users – is perhaps the most seductive technology for its painterly output and poetic interactions. The charm begins from the very first moment, with the command line prompt ‘/imagine’.

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