Hello everyone, it’s amazing to have so many of you here. With the release of GPT-4 and Midjourney V5, it’s hard not to be excited!

So much so that I got lost in the tools and was late on this newsletter, and for that I apologise.

Impostor Syndrome

Anyone who makes anything will often feel overwhelmed by sudden change in their tools and environement. The unkown is and will always be frighting for humans, it’s how we evolved.

While this fear can be justified, I believe the recent advancements in AI set off something else in the creative community. The rapid imporvements likely triggered our Imposter Syndrome.

I’m a photographer, filmmaker and writer.

I feel it too.

The overwhelming amount of new and powerful tools make us feel as though our skills are threathtened, that our hard work will be rendred useless.

No mattter how loud these intrusive thoughts get, they are wrong.

We will be fine.

We are in control

Even with tools like ChatGPT, being a good writer and having the will to learn about the beautiful world of art has never been more valuable.

Ai tools need quality inputs, they need you to provide them with a clear and unique direction for it to produce outstanding results, and it’s especially true with the recent version of Midjourney.

Indeed, as Nick St. Pierre discovered, using natural language as opposed to the descriptive keywords, we get better images.

When I saw his thread, I was really excited as I had tried to use natural language and let the AI produce the visual of the mood and story I wrote.

A few weeks ago, I wanted to use snippets of my bio on my website without any keywords. Unfortunately, the results were quite abstract.

This was the prompt (v4):

Now in V5, the results are really amazing and grasp the mood with a much better realism, which I like.

Needless to say this is stunning.

Which bring me back to what I said earlier: keep working on your craft, your hard work is valuable and so are you.

See you next week,

Phil Desforges