>Midjourney now seems to have far surpassed them in the image generation front.
What? Have you actually used either? MJ is just a ultra-fine tuned model with a few layers to prevent stuff from looking bad. Stable Diffusion has their own 'single shot' version, maybe someone remembers it, I played with it for 1-2 hours. Everything looks great, but I want hyper specific stuff in my art and I'm never getting that with 1 shots.
Heck, I did a few flyers and used some icons I made with img2img + inpainting + controlnet. The work is completely stunning and scalable. That is never happening even at an individual level with MJ.
What? Have you actually used either? MJ is just a ultra-fine tuned model with a few layers to prevent stuff from looking bad. Stable Diffusion has their own 'single shot' version, maybe someone remembers it, I played with it for 1-2 hours. Everything looks great, but I want hyper specific stuff in my art and I'm never getting that with 1 shots.
Heck, I did a few flyers and used some icons I made with img2img + inpainting + controlnet. The work is completely stunning and scalable. That is never happening even at an individual level with MJ.