Ethan B. Holland

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AI Imagery News: Week Ending 03/15/2024

March 15, 2024

“”A new Under Armour commercial from production company Tool, created with the help of AI, has caused a stir in the production community, with some seeing it as a worrying new sign that directors could soon become superfluous.” https://twitter.com/michaelmiraflor/status/1768462497919771101

Krea

“Patch enhance by @krea_ai is pretty cool it’s like a combo of inpainting and upscaling love all the little experiments these guys are releasing https://twitter.com/nickfloats/status/1768347661248143706

MidJourney

Consistent Characters

“Midjourney released a feature that has been long-awaited – character reference. Here’s how to use it. This is similar to the “Style Reference” feature, except instead of matching a reference style it tries to make the character match a “Character Reference” image. How it… https://twitter.com/prompt_mastery/status/1767381307347063169

“Wow! The “Character Reference” or consistent character feature by Midjourney is out… It’s a very big step for AI image generation. 7 examples:” / X – https://twitter.com/_Borriss_/status/1767434734877995207

“🚨 Breaking! Midjourney just dropped the ‘Character Consistency’. First look and more 👇 https://twitter.com/doganuraldesign/status/1767331560632832441

“Midjourney Character Reference is OUT!!! David’s announcement. Let the testing begin! https://twitter.com/aliejules/status/1767347060276138262

“🧵👉 EXCLUSIVE: 👀 CHARACTER REFERENCE FEATURE!!! Midjourney just released its new “Character Reference” feature. It is similar to the “Style Reference” feature but tries to make the character match a “Character Reference” image. —————————- HOW IT WORKS ➡️… https://twitter.com/ai_artworkgen/status/1767327982497014210

“It’s similar to the style reference feature, except instead of matching style, it makes your characters match your Character Reference (–cref) image I used the image on the left as my character reference Prompts in ALT https://twitter.com/nickfloats/status/1767350132549234772

“You can use the Character Weight parameter (–cw N) to control the level of character detail you carry over. At lower values like –cw 0 it will focus mostly on the face, but at higher values like –cw 100 it’ll pull more of the outfit in too Top left is ref image https://twitter.com/nickfloats/status/1767350137234338160

“Midjourney is working on a way to personalize your own model It would take all of your liked images in your gallery, & use those to personalize the model Also, the ability to talk/prompt w/ others in the community is coming to web alpha Both looking to be released in ~2 weeks” / X – https://twitter.com/nickfloats/status/1767992829144359042

“Tips For Consistent Characters – Controlling Character Weight” / X – https://twitter.com/nickfloats/status/1768326351038112069

“On the left is the character reference On the right is the character reference used in a totally different prompt that included style references It’s definitely not perfect, but it’s wayyy better than any other solution we’ve had previously https://twitter.com/nickfloats/status/1767350140308705296

“A few more consistent character tests in Midjourney top row → test of –cw values on clothing middle → seeing how it transfers emotions bottom → using –cref with different actions prompts & some notes in thread: https://twitter.com/nickfloats/status/1767619179467669839

Midjourney bans all Stability AI employees over alleged data scraping – The Verge – https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/11/24097495/midjourney-bans-stability-ai-employees-data-theft-outage

Other Image News

“✨NSFW FEEDS ARE LIVE ✨ Today we take a big step forward in Adult AI. NSFW feeds are LIVE 🔥 Premium users can now toggle on NSFW and browse 3 distinct home feeds with exclusively NSFW images. This update provides visibility and engagement for NSFW creators, while… https://twitter.com/imgn_ai/status/1768685719361638419

“This is great! A big day for AI images! The best open source Upscaler + Enhancer yet is out! Created by @philipp1337x. 2 before and after examples + links: 1) https://twitter.com/_Borriss_/status/1768893483710890191

TikTok prepares to challenge Instagram with ‘TikTok Photos’ – https://www.androidauthority.com/tiktok-photos-3424441/
Face2Diffusion for Fast and Editable Face Personalization – https://mapooon.github.io/Face2DiffusionPage/

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