The image quality generated by the image-generating artificial intelligence (AI) ‘Midjourney’ has risen to the extent of a murals beyond an actual picture.

Forbes reported on the third (local time) that Midjourney has released version 5.1 of ‘Midjourney’, which creates images with improved quality.

The new edition creates a picture closer to the user’s intention than Midjourney 4. It’s characterised by having the ability to create higher quality images even with short messages.

Midjourney described this as a ‘more opinionated’ image. For those who don’t want such a picture, you’ll be able to select ‘Raw Mode’ to create the identical image as before.

Other notable improvements include improved consistency, improved prompt accuracy, fewer borders or text artifacts, and sharper image quality.

Midjourney plans to switch version 4, the present default version, with version 5.1 as a substitute of version 5.0, which was released in alpha last March.

Specifically, consequently of comparing images generated from the identical prompt, version 5.1 was evaluated to be more natural and artistic than version 5.0.

Within the image below, which produced “Woman walking down a cobbled road into the sunset,” the sunset within the Version 5.1 image looks warmer and more natural in comparison with the sunset image in Version 5.0, which looks overly aggressive and artificial.

Within the image that generated the next ‘Explosion on the Paint Shop, Vector Art’, the image in Midjourney 5.1 makes higher use of color and has a more dynamic composition than version 5.0.

Finally, you’ll be able to see what I mean once I say Midjourney 5.1 is more opinionated within the image that produced a ‘close-up of a toddler wearing swimming goggles’.

The version 5.0 image on the left is tremendous, but it surely’s a really straight-forward snapshot, like an image taken with a smartphone camera of youngsters wearing goggles. The 5.1 image on the best has a rather more edited feel, as if it were taken by an expert photographer.

Chan Park, cpark@aitimes.com