Midjourney

3 entries between July 2022 and March 2023.

Every entry

  1. An AI image of Pope Francis in a puffer coat is taken for real

    A photorealistic image of Pope Francis in a white puffer coat, made with version 5 of Midjourney’s image model, spread across social media in late March 2023 and was widely taken for a photograph. Forbes and BuzzFeed News traced it to a Chicago construction worker.

  2. An AI-generated image wins a Colorado State Fair prize

    Jason Allen took first place in the digital-arts category of the Colorado State Fair’s fine art competition with “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial”, an image he made with Midjourney.

  3. Midjourney opens its image generator to public beta

    Midjourney, a small independent lab led by David Holz, opened its text-to-image tool to public beta in July 2022. Anyone could join its Discord server and generate images from written prompts with a limited number of free credits. There was no standalone web app.