As a traditional artist, at first, I had conflicting sentiments about generative AI. The fact that centralized companies were scrapping and using content from people who poured years of work into felt wrong.
But I can't deny the massive opportunity it created for everyone to explore their creative ideas, and redefine the base level of the global output of art.
The first months were so exciting, with everyone experimenting and sharing their newly found insights. Nowadays, I find more and more people being secretive about their process and their prompts…
That's not the vision I want for this space. If we're crowdsourcing the work of millions of artists, gatekeeping your own feels wrong to me. I want an open space where ideas are shared, remixed, and applied in an infinite number of ways.
I made Prompt Fox to share my best prompts (you can send me yours to be featured if you wish). Since I'm a freelance designer, I focused on high-quality prompts that can be used in any professional project.
Let me know what you think!
Very under-documented at the moment, but it's been pretty neat explore what the community comes up with, learning prompting techniques and spotting trends (eg, a surge of Christmas images around October), for isolating the effects of specific parameters, and other narrow latent space exploration.
I was also thinking of opening it up for teams to collate their stuff into a single searchable data set (eg, all my prompts are at https://analyzer.transfix.ai/?db=josh ) but have moved away from doing anything with Midjourney because they are pretty hostile to anyone playing outside their sandbox.