MidJourney V5 Looks Insane!

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really exciting news coming out of mid-journey they're releasing mid-journey 5 very very soon and they're actually giving us a sneak peek of some of these ultra realistic images that we can probably expect from mid-journey 5 and let me tell you these images are really impressive they are pretty pretty pretty good let's break it down now before I start showing you some of what to expect from version 5 here let's go look at some quick disclaimers that they posted in their Discord so you can see it says Hi everyone we're close to releasing our next Generation image system before we do we need your help if you're paying mid Journey member you can go to this URL and help rate the images so if you're a paying member make sure you jump into the Discord and you can help rate some of the version 5 images the directions they give us is they're going to show two images at a time please select the one you like more that's really the only criteria it's based on your own personal aesthetic taste so you see two images which one do you like better now it does say here please note these images are not not representative of the version 5 algorithm will release soon this isn't necessarily what to expect but we can see the quality improvements over some of the version 4 images when I start clicking through them you'll see that there is quite a bit of a boost in quality just in these sample images it says these images are plain boring unopinionated to help the system learn but their version 5 should have a different style from version 4. It also says you should notice the images are higher resolution and have generally better detail and stylistic range than version 4. if you're worried about the quality check out images from the pre version 4 raiding party as a comparison to today we can actually see this was the type of image they were showing during the version 4 rating party and it's quite a big difference from what we're actually getting from version four so what we're gonna see in our version 5 ratings is actually probably a lower standard than what we can likely expect out of the new version 5. let's take a peek and rate a handful and see some of the quality differences now if you look at the top right of my screen you can see I've already clicked through quite a bit of version 5 images I've already rated 177 images so let's go ahead and rate some more I'm going to go ahead and click on some some of these are honestly really tough to choose between because either a I don't like either image B I really like both image or C the images are so wildly different from each other it's hard to pick a favorite because they're just not comparing Apples to Apples so between these two I'd probably say I like this one just because of the purple color palette probably this one of the biggest differences that I've noticed from rating over 180 now is that the anatomy of the humans is looking so much more realistic but if you look at an image like this this is looking really realistic if you just saw this image on like Facebook or Instagram or something you would probably assume this was a real person this does not look like a mid-journey image to me look at the realism on this flower here look at the water drops this looks like a real macro photography image and here we have some naked dudes in the fire throwing cheese puffs or something really I want to hone in on this one on the right look at how realistic this looks this is not what we typically see out of midterm I'm having a hard time picking between both of these because this image of this woman here with the panda ears or whatever you'd call them looks ultra realistic so does this image of these guys walking through the desert carrying wood you would never think these came out of mid-journey this one here's a little creepy and funky with the multiple bent fingers but this cartoon one this looks like it could be a poster from a Disney movie here here's another one that both of these images are just amazing but in different ways this one looks like a really really well drawn anime image and this one looks like an ultra realistic black and white photo here I mean even the finger Anatomy looks correct I think I'd have to pick this one as the winner just because I don't know what's going on with this guy's legs here once again two images that look like they could be real images this looks like a photo taken of somebody in Vegas casino or something it looked very realistic now these look like real houses this looks like something you'd see in some sort of architectural magazine I don't know what's going on in the bottom right corner this front door looks ultra realistic you can tell in mid Journey version five there's going to be much more realism baked into it once again ultra realistic both of these they could be real photos this looks like something you'd see on somebody's Pinterest board or on a Instagram page trying to sell this bracelet and this one just looks like a photo shoot or something not even seeing anything weird with the anatomy of the hands or the feet or anything it's looking very very good here's another ultra realistic one of somebody sitting at a computer look at this this looks like a Dragon Ball Z action figure it's even got to like shine on it that makes it look like a plastic toy or something both of these are super good this looks like a photo that somebody just took in a Downtown City here's another one I think the guy's got an extra finger here but if you ignore the fingers and just look at the face I mean come on and then this one it's got a really cool cartoon colorful style to it this one kind of looks like the dude from strange Ranger things I think this might be the guy from Walking Dead with a whole bunch of zombies behind him now you can't tell me this doesn't look like a real jacket this looks like something that you would see in a magazine promoting a jacket to go hiking in the mountains in now there's something that I just love about that mid-journey 4 style you look at some of these images and you can almost instantly tell that these were created with mid Journey version four and I just I love them I love the color palettes I love this sort of artistic style and with these images going to Mid Journey version five it looks like they're going for a much higher level of realism but what I think we're gonna see is people generating images in mid-journey version four when they want that mid Journey version 4 style I think that's gonna be something that people just kind of call it like you know people are going to see images like this and and we're gonna go oh yeah I could tell that's a V4 image I can tell that was generated in V4 there's just gonna be that version four style that everybody kind of knows it for and I don't think there's anything wrong with that I'm excited about it I'm excited to go all right let's play around with version five when we want something ultra realistic and we want that really cool deep color palette that mid Journey version 4 style we jump in and put dash dash V4 and we get the version 4 style out of our images I can see still generating a lot of my thumbnail backgrounds and things like that using mid Journey version 4 and doing some ultra realistic pictures with version five here's one of uh guys singing this is from that mid Journey version five I cannot tell that's not a real image here's another one look at this cat I mean we had a cat that looked almost exactly like that just without the Hat this looks like my old cat that's why I saved this picture and then this one's probably my favorite one I've come across so far Joe Biden holding the lightsaber he's even got the right amount of fingers I also think it's kind of funny they put Joe Biden on the dark side but I won't go there the skeleton map image is really cool I mean this Viper is also really cool but I mean the skeleton map's really cool we got Shrek if I was this lady I would definitely not be touching that all right this looks exactly like an Audi R8 spot on that's an Audi R8 right there I don't think you could type Audi R8 into mid journey and get some something that looks that realistic look at this they made somebody into a Funko Pop in this one and this one you got like a tiny little scene here this looks so cool it looks like a little like cardboard box scene that you would make and then look at the intricate details on this one with the white face and then the flowers coming off and then you got this galaxy one over here that also looks just really realistic as well another thing I've noticed is they've gotten a lot better at teeth a lot of times when somebody's got a big smile there's like 10 more teeth than what should be in the smile and with the models I'm seeing here it's looking quite a bit better does that make loving with a giant Sideburn hey look a Minecraft character [Music] yeah these are just crazy and I will tell you that going through and raiding them is very very addicting be ready to lose a lot of time as you can see I'm already at 353 rated now because I've just been addictively clicking through and rating all these images because I want to see what this tool is capable of so once again make sure that you head over to the mid-journey Discord you can get all the details in the announcement here if you're a paying mid-journey member you can click this link here and start ranking some of the mid Journey version 5 images again do remember that they purposely made these a little more plain boring and unopinionated and it's not a true representation of what version 5 is going to be but you can tell that based on what we're seeing here version 5 is going to be pretty vastly different from version four but that's not something to worry about because version 4 isn't going anywhere we'll still be able to access version four most likely by just adding it to the end of The Prompt and if it's anything like when they roll that out version 4 version 4 will probably be the default for a while and you'll actually have to specifically ask for version 5 to get images in version 5. I just wanted to show that off real quick mid Journey version 5 is very very close and it's looking pretty dang good wanna nerd out on a lot of more cool futuristic and AI tools head over to futuretools.io and join the newsletter it's free to join and every Friday I'll give you the tldr of all the coolest stuff that's happened for the week in the world of AI and my five favorite tools that I came across and if you haven't already please giving it a thumbs up we'll make sure you see more cool Ai and mid-journey related videos inside of your feed and if you haven't already subscribe to the channel that'll make sure you see more of five videos inside of your feed alright thanks again for watching I really appreciate you see you guys in the next video bye-bye [Music] thank you