Midjourney
also referred to as: mid-journey
8 statements across 6 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 27, 2023 by Benedict Evans · said 46 times in 12 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Benedict Evans (41), Toni Cowan-Brown (5)
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 9 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
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Mar 27, 2023 neutral
Mar 27, 2023 negative
Apr 2, 2023 neutral
Evans: Running image generation models locally on phones is months or years away
“You know, we're going, quickly going to go to a model in which you can run stable diffusion on the journey yourself on your computer or on your phone. That's like months or years away. It's not decades away. That's close.”
Apr 24, 2023 neutral
Evans: Midjourney does not threaten art because tools cannot replace artistic sensibility
“Anybody can buy a camera, but that doesn't make you a photographer. You know, anybody can fire up mid journey. That doesn't mean you're going to, you know, doesn't mean you're going to produce something great in the way that somebody who has the right sensibil…”
Aug 17, 2023 neutral
Evans: ChatGPT's fluent prose masks its underlying lack of understanding
“With chat GPT, the lateral language generation is so good that you can't see the model behind it. It isn't as good as the text. Like the prose generation is perfect. The grammar is perfect. So that hides the fact that the understanding behind it isn't quite th…”
Aug 17, 2023 bullish
Jan 29, 2024 negative