Multiplayer? | Midjourney Office Hours Recap Jan 17th 2024 | Midjourney News

Summary

The transcript covers a recap from the Midjourney office hours on January 17th, highlighting forthcoming V6 functionality like inpainting, pan/zoom, consistent styles, a style tuner, changes to the explore and hot pages, a new rating system, updates on the alpha website and multiplayer, slower progress on V6 itself, and plans to better incorporate user feedback going forward.

Takeaways

• New V6 features like inpainting, pan/zoom, and consistent styles are nearing release
• They're testing variations on the V5 style tuner for V6 with the goal of improvement
• The explore and hot pages will feature new designs and content each visit
• A simpler save/hide rating system is planned to replace the current method
• The alpha website is expanding in users and capabilities
• Multiplayer functionality may launch by end of January
• V6 development itself has slowed down recently
• Better user feedback integration is a priority moving forward

Q & A

What new functionality is expected soon in V6?

Inpainting for removing and replacing elements of images, pan and zoom for adjusting an images perspective, and consistent styles for locking into a style rather than a full image prompt.

How will the rating system be changed?

It will likely shift to a simpler save or hide buttons, replacing the current more complex system. They may allow alternate rating systems via another button.

When could multiplayer go live on Midjourney?

They are targeting multiplayer functionality by the end of January as part of continued alpha website testing.

Outlines

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Overview of Recent MidJourney Updates

Summarizes the latest updates from the MidJourney office hours on January 17th. Covers upcoming V6 functionality like inpainting, painting tools, consistent styles, a style tuner, changes to the describe feature, front page algorithm updates, a new explore page, image rating changes, expanding the alpha website, potential multiplayer testing, behind the scenes on V6 and video training, speed improvements, regular community polling, and plans for a February survey.

Keywords

💡inpainting

Inpainting refers to the process of removing or replacing parts of an image while maintaining a cohesive and natural look. It was mentioned that V6 will have improved inpainting capabilities like panning and zooming within an image. This allows users to create more dynamic and customized image manipulations.

💡consistent styles

Consistent styles refer to the ability to lock an image into a certain artistic style, similar to specifying an image prompt. This provides more control over maintaining a unified aesthetic when generating multiple images.

💡style tuner

The style tuner is a feature that allows granular tweaking of the style of an AI-generated image. They are testing versions that are similar to V5.2 as well as new approaches. This affords more user control over stylistic elements.

💡describe

The 'describe this' feature aims to generate accurate text descriptions of images. However, the updates were not working well so more refinement is needed. This relates to improving AI comprehension and description abilities.

💡front page algorithm

The algorithm that controls the content on the front page of the platform is being modified to be more strict about common AI-generated tropes. This curates the content to be more novel and high quality.

💡explore page

A new explore page is coming that will change with each visit, highlighting different images. Users can like images to promote them to the hot and top pages. This provides more content discovery.

💡rating system

The current rating system will be simplified to just save and hide buttons. Additional options may come later. Simple ratings allow for clearer user feedback.

💡personalization

Improving personalization of generated images is a key goal. This involves learning aesthetic preferences and tailoring outputs. The planned surveys will collect data to improve personalization.

💡video

They are working on training video generation more, but it is currently behind schedule. Video capabilities would greatly expand the creative options.

💡community feedback

Regular polls and surveys will be conducted to gather input on platform priorities and improvements. Analyzing this community feedback will help guide future development.

Highlights

Lots of new V6 functionality coming soon like inpainting, pan/zoom, consistent styles, character consistency, and a new style tuner

The front page algorithm has been modified to be more strict about common tropes

A new explore page will look different each time with new images, and liked images will be considered for the hot and top pages

Moving to a simpler rating system with options like save or hide

The alpha website is expanding users for image creation

A multiplayer version of the website may launch by the end of January

Version 6 is behind schedule and the team isn't happy with it yet

Video training is behind schedule due to slower data download times

Version 6 will likely get faster by the end of the month

They might work on a larger V6 update or go full speed to V7

They will introduce regular polling to ask users what the team should work on next

A February survey may offer GPU hours for participation

A key goal is improving personalization

The team is training video more but it's currently behind schedule

Version 6 might get faster by the end of January

Transcripts

hey everyone here's a recap from the mid

Journey office hours on January 17th

they have a bunch of V6 functionality

coming that includes inpainting out

painting like pan and zoom and he hopes

they will be ready this week they're

running a little late cuz someone was

out of the office consistent styles are

also going to be tested soon it's sort

of like an image prompt but it's going

to lock into the style rather than the

whole image character consistency is

going to work in a similar way they are

working on a style tuner for version 6

testing one that is similar to how it

worked in 5.2 and also one that is

different and in his words better they

were testing out a new version of

describe this week but it wasn't working

great so they have to think about it

more and try to make it more accurate

they also modified the front page

algorithm it's a little more strict with

what it allows and in the future they

might try to remove more common tropes

that often appear there are a lot more

things coming to the website a new

explore page will look differently every

time you go to the page it will be

different you're going to see new

pictures every time if you like an image

it will be considered for the hot page

and if it stays hot for a long time it

will go to the top page I think all that

sounds really cool they're also going to

be redesigning the layout for looking

through your images I think it's just a

button layout but we'll see they're

going to be moving to a different rating

system it's going to be simple and

something like save or hide they might

have another button to allow different

types of rating systems but David said

they're leaning towards something that

is simple first the alpha website is

getting pretty good for creating images

and will expand to more users soon they

may have a multiplayer version of the

website coming near the end of the month

and for that they will need a lot of

people to help test it he said nii

version 6 is a bit behind the things

they thought would be working are just

not that great right now and the team

isn't quite happy with it yet David

talked about how they are training video

more but that is behind schedule as well

the data set was taking longer to

download than they expected a couple

more quick notes version 6 will probably

get faster by the end of the month and

they might might work on a larger update

to version 6 or they might go full speed

towards version 7 another thing that's

kind of interesting is that they're

going to try to do a regular polling

activity to ask everyone what the team

should be working on they're creating

algorithms to best ask for feedback and

then how to analyze that feedback they

don't want people to vote on things they

would rather have the community actually

say things there could be a big survey

in February where they're going to offer

a bunch of GPU hours to do a really long

survey it's sort of like a psychometric

research thing and it will be about

aesthetic preferences between people one

of their big goals is to figure out how

to make personalization work better if

you like the art in this video and how

could you not I think these are all

absolutely incredible here is the prompt

it's your subject collage comma Jimmy

turle style risograph printed

portraiture on artist's paper that's it

sorry if I pronounced any of that

incorrectly and I want to give a special

thanks to will re5 I found their prompt

over on the mid Journey website if you

want some exclusive prompts of mine you

can support me over on patreon if you

want a better look at some of my images

you can follow me over on Instagram @

future techpilot there's a recap of the

mid Journey office hours I hope you're

doing well take care and I'll see you

next time