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AI creative, educator and photo retoucher | Spotlighting talent worth watching | Curating & showcasing the most recent AI developments and their applications.

Joined March 2011
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As a photographer, I am interested in exploring the boundaries of realism with MidJourney. The prompt created flakes on the skin that I retouched out in Photoshop. Sharpened in PS. The Prompt is listed in the Alt Text! Please share what you create with it. #midjourneyart
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Can you show me the most memorable and impressive piece of AI generated content you've seen? I see so much of it but always forget most of it the next day. I'd love to know what has stuck with you over time.
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It's getting harder to tell what's real and what isn't.
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Can't believe this ad concept was made for under $400 in AI subscriptions.
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Using MidJourney's outputs as a reference for GPT-4o's recent image generator has allowed me to put more style into it while keeping the realism of the update. Give it a go!
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We taught our robot to trail drive and it nails it zero-shot 🤯 Its week 1 at our new test facility in the Santa Cruz mountains. Our vehicle has never seen this trail before, in fact it has been trained on very little trail driving data to date. Watch it navigate this terrain with almost human level performance. A single camera video stream plus a text prompt "follow the trail" are inputs to the VLA running on a low-power on-board GPU. The VLA outputs are direct vehicle actions. The simplicity of the system is truly amazing, no maps, no lidar, no labeled data, no waypoints, trained simply on human observation. Note --> 🟢 lights on vehicle = autonomy mode. We keep a safety driver in the vehicle out of precaution.
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A web of lies, catching on fire. Me trying to make sense of this ongoing political rift happening. Does this accurately represent what's going on? What would be a better visual analogy?
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When creating with AI, what inspires your prompts? What drives your curiosity, and where do these inspirations originate? Are they based off how your feeling, what you're going through, or something else entirely?
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The power of AI is bringing photos to life. If you have photos of loved ones, you can animate them into existence. This is a portrait I took of my wife @bellakotak and wanted to use MiniMax to see what it could do. I was surprised by the results.
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A little too blinky but a prompt to go along with it could take care of them, or a few additional generations.
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Created this piece with @midjourney @Magnific_AI and @Hailuo_AI. It's incredible what you can bring to life.
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Do any of you have opinions on Kling vs MiniMax for image to video?
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New day, new humanoid. Xpeng made an incredible looking bot and the specs look impressive.
NEWS: Chinese EV maker Xpeng today unveiled their humanoid robot named Iron that they've been working on for 5 years. Video below is not CGI. • 60+ joints & 200 total degrees of freedom • Tech shared from its vehicles • 5 foot 8 inches tall • Weighs 154 lbs (70kg) • Robots already integrated into Xpeng's daily operations, such as factories • Robot's brain is powered by Xpeng's Turing AI chip • Xpeng: "The end-to-end large model gives it the ability to walk, and fingers that can perform tasks including grasping, holding, and placing items." More info: eletric-vehicles.com/xpeng/x…
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What else is left before full length AI films are possible?
Advanced Camera Control is now available for Gen-3 Alpha Turbo. Choose both the direction and intensity of how you move through your scenes for even more intention in every shot. (1/8)
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This is a great way of taking the retexture feature in MidJourney and pairing it up with Kling's incredibly key-frame functionality.
This is an easy workflow to create beautiful transitions with @midjourney's Retexture and @Kling_ai's Key-Frames. Simply upload your images from the MJ's web editor as the first and last frames and use these prompts as inspiration:
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When your visions come to life. This is seriously addicting.
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I wonder if the future of local enforcement will involve drone surveillance?
The end of street crime is in sight. The real questions are on whether policymakers are willing to deploy the tech and face the consequences of incarcerating a sliver of the population permanently for inability to follow rules.
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Wow, MiniMax has to be the best image to video platform so far. Here is the starting image and the video is the output from MiniMax. It's shocking how far we've gotten already.
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Retexturing in MidJourney is so powerful, especially if you use a strong reference for the retexture beyond the prompt.
The stronger your drawing skills, the better your results will be with the Midjourney editor. It's obvious, but I just wanted to confirm 😃
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Do you make money from AI generated imagery? If so, what do you do?
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