Opinion

Image creation tools are hotting up, but like most things in this space, don't believe every clickbait headline. Yes there is innovation. Yes this is an amazing time to be a digital worker with all the productivity enhancing tools that are here. But we have to receive all this information knowing that there's a race on to take ownership of the gen ai space.

The latest round of hype cycle releases has come for image creation tools.

• Since the start of this year, and until very recently, Mid Journey has been winning the image creation race. I admire them so much because they are a small team, privately owned, and still only a year and a half old.?
• The heat was turned up by OpenAI recently with the announcement of? multi-modal via Dall-E 3. Multimodal means you can upload an image and add a text prompt and generate an image that comprises both. Another big bold pronouncement but it has yet to deliver as promised.?
• Canva reigned in with a lot of noise around its Magic Studio tools. I like them for image editing, but I still go to Mid Journey to create my beautiful works of art.

It's easy to wow people with images of cute puppies or anime, but what about the kind of images you'd use in a blog post, for a non sexy industry, with zero budget...

Let's take a look, shall we?

Both got the same prompt: pharma factory floor, fluorescent lighting, drone, featuring factory workers --ar 16:

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Yann LeCun, the Head of AI for Meta said recently that we are only at the level of cat intelligence when it comes to AI. We still have a long way to go before it reaches Human Level Intelligence.

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