Comment by Der_Einzige
3 years ago
Open source is still so far ahead of midjourney it's not even funny. Like, a racist RimWorld mod author (Automatic1111) built a UI for stable diffusion which unlocks far more capabilities out of it than midjourney will ever have.
I'm not sure if you are trolling or not, but if you aren't then you haven't seen Midjourney v5. But I wouldn't blame you because your information is only like one month out of date which is short in normal timespans but so long in AI timespans.
No, midjourney V5 is not close to bridging the gap. I can fix hands on any model within stable diffusion by using several control nets for the hands. Luckily a 3D openpose extension which makes that super easy already exists for the Automatic1111 SD UI!
MidJourney v5 doesn’t fail hands on most pictures though.
Out of the box midjourneyv5 generates great images but SD has controlnet, plethora of custom models to pick from, can run locally on most machines gives it an edge in my opinion.
ControlNet is great and is missing in MidJourney.
I find most of the community models for Stable Diffusion to be pretty poor. A lot of models made from merges, waifu only models, models made from very small training datasets, and still stuck on 1.5 while 2.1 is much better overall.
However you have the amazing LoRas for 2.1 that are very powerful. The community is a bit ignoring them, but I think the potential is great.
But MidJourney is a lot better at text to image and image to image for now.