Pandora’s Box: Which AI art generator will take the next step?

Closed Pandora's box, hinting at the latent capabilities yet to be unveiled in AI art generator, Midjourney.


Pandora was ahead of its time.

The music app was officially launched to the public back in September 2005, and it was a god-send to all music lovers. Sure, you might not hear your favorite song, but you'll be immersed in a huge catalog of tunes within the same genre, providing countless hours of music curated to your distinct taste.

Two years later, Spotify was released – and it immediately made Pandora look outdated.

The reason? Listeners could now play specific songs in real-time.

Meanwhile, Pandora didn’t add that function until unveiling their “Pandora Premium” in 2017, but the damage had already been done. These days, Spotify is roughly 11-times larger than Pandora, with 515 million users as of the first quarter of this year. By comparison, Pandora boasts 46.7 million users.

To be fair, both companies are wildly successful. Pandora, for example, generated $2 billion in revenue last year.

But it’s still the “Pepsi” to Spotify’s “Coke” in terms of global reach and cultural impact.

Sure, much of the credit goes to Spotify’s global approach, as it’s available in more than 180 countries while Pandora is largely limited to the U.S. And major kudos goes to Spotify for their brand positioning and effective marketing campaigns.

However, it's hard to get over Spotify’s staggering 11-to-1 ratio of users versus its predecessor.

It makes me wonder if Midjourney is the next Pandora.

Open Pandora's box, symbolizing the untapped potential and uncertainties of AI art generator, Midjourney.


It’s your move Midjourney. Literally ...

To be clear, Midjourney is absolutely amazing, and if you haven’t checked it out yet, sign up for a membership. JakeGPT has no affiliation with Midjourney – we just love the AI art generator. (The JakeGPT1973.com website gives a pretty big hint of that.)

That said, getting Midjourney to create exactly what you want is, to put it lightly, extremely difficult. It’s like Pandora: You want it to play Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean,” but after two hours’ of “Purple Rain,” “Dancing Queen” and “Super Freak,” you’re left satisfied, albeit just a tiny bit disappointed that you never heard “Billie Jean.”

Sure, if you write a prompt that gives you spectacular results, you can just re-use that prompt over and over again. In return, Midjourney will create a variety of photos that all follow the same theme, color scheme and medium, but no two results will be alike.

But what if you want to use the same character or object in different poses doing specific actions? Forget it. Midjourney’s tech isn’t quite there – yet.

History suggests that will change relatively soon, as evidenced by Adobe’s entry into the AI generator space. Someone – whether it’s Midjourney, Adobe or DALL-E 2 – will develop an art generator that can follow exact instructions.

After all, there’s always going to a Blockbuster that precedes NetFlix, a MySpace that precedes Facebook, and a Pandora that precedes Spotify.

Great, world-changing idea, but the gold medal goes to the one who slightly improved that idea.

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Incredibly helpful video from Midjourney prompt wizard FutureTechPilot. He’s got a YouTube channel and a website where he gives terrific Midjourney tutorials and sells prompts.

Anyway, this particular video posted about a month ago shows how hard it is to create consistent characters with Midjourney. His results are about the best I’ve seen, but it still underscores the fact that the tech still has some limitations.

 

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JakeGPT is the owner and operator of JakeGPT1973.com, an AI-powered digital marketing company based out of Carrollton, Texas. Email him at jakegpt@jakegpt1973.com.

 

 

  

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