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Runway's Big Quality Upgrade & Midjourney Style Tuner

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Hey y’all! Big old welcome to our twenty-seventh newsletter. Each week, we share news in AI, abominations, prompting tips, daily champs from our new app - Whirl (join!) - and more.

Let’s get into it…

Midjourney Style Tuner

Midj released new goodies this week! Style Tuner. Essentially, a way to bake your own style through curation, then share that style or reuse it later. Here’s a great initial overview on X:

Ok, so the new Midjourney Style Tuner is here and it's a MASSIVE update.
There is so much to unpack, no way I can do it all in one post, but here is an overview.
You start by typing in /tune followed by your prompt.
MJ will generate a range of sample images (between 16-128)… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Nick St. Pierre (@nickfloats)
4:36 AM • Nov 2, 2023

And here is Midjourney’s interactive guide to style tuning.

RunwayML’s videos got a Huge Upgrade

Runway dropped a bomb of an update this week. Video quality, stability, coherence have all gone up dramatically. See a few examples for yourself:

😱 MASSIVE UPDATE
@runwayml has launched something magical.
I feel like this is a pivotal moment in generative AI.
I didn't see any announcement about it, just a massive, but silent update from Runway.
The quality went up immensely 📈
Take a look for yourself below 👇
— Max (@maxescu)
10:06 AM • Nov 2, 2023

Here's a comparison of @runwayml's new update stacked up against it's older gens.
Noticeable improvement in clarity and consistency with the original image, although i feel it's lost some of the dynamic movement in some shots.
— Oliver McCann (@OliverZMcCann)
2:56 PM • Nov 2, 2023

A huge update from @runwayml just took AI Video to the next level.
People are flabbergasted at the crisp quality...
10 stunning examples:
— Proper 🧐 (@ProperPrompter)
12:04 AM • Nov 3, 2023

X Tips : “Minimalist poster design” “Cosmic Symbols”

A few fun prompts to try, plucked from the hive mind at X! Give them a try:

🚨 MINIMALIST POSTERS PROMPT ALERT!
🌆✨ From the serene canals of Venice at dusk to the iconic skyline of NYC at dawn, ‘Gaylan’ transforms world wonders into minimalist art. Discover the beauty in simplicity 🎨🌍
/imagine Minimalist poster design by Gaylan,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— ArtiMindArt (@artimindArt)
11:50 AM • Nov 2, 2023

🎨COSMIC SYMBOLS🎨
Base Prompt :
Cosmic [COLOR 1] and [COLOR 2] portrayal of a [SUBJECT] through zodiac symbols --style raw --ar 3:2 twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— LudovicCreator (@LudovicCreator)
1:59 PM • Nov 3, 2023

Discord Mini-Themes

Each week, we rotate in a new set of for-fun mini-themes in Discord. All are suggested by you and managed by Theme Queen, Elli (@p.ai.nterly on IG)!

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🗞️ AI News

Thank you as always to our trusty crew of Newsies. This week’s links powered by: @tmp.ai twilight_dreams123 @focused.instability. In addition to the big Midjourney & RunwayML updates covered above -

Artists lose first round of copyright infringement case against AI art generators
Scarlett Johansson sues Lisa AI for cloning her voice in an ad
Photogrammetry (scanning 3D spaces) is getting pretty damn good!
Shutterstock debuts its AI image editor - their approach is different than others in that it’s not fully generative from text. Rather, you start with an image (that you pay for) and add elements from there
Google created a “spot the AI-generated image” game (just like the one we used to host!)

Not art, still noteworthy

White House drops Executive Order on AI (huge!) - here’s the White House’s Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights
MIT & Cohere for AI launch platform to give greater transparency to the most popular datasets used to train AI models
Google invests $2 billion into Anthropic, OpenAI competitor (they invested many millions earlier this year, as well as did Amazon to the tune of $4 billion)
Possible to solve military & political conflict (like the ongoing war between Israel + Palestine) with AI?
How Microsoft is making a mess of the news after laying off editors and replacing them with AI
Meet Dot, your AI companion designed by an Apple alum

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Whirl

New Release: 1.09

A new release to the web app went out yesterday evening! joinwhirl.com now has a brand new look - should look a lot better and be much simpler to navigate. More description in Discord 🎉 Have a gander at our Daily Champs since Sunday:

“Anthropomorphic” - @ai.collections.art