These are not just novelty value. They're great for mocking up ideas and I've also used them for generating backgrounds for advertising, for example:
"A black stage lit from above by two spotlights, very dramatic, stylish"
You can also add keywords like "modern/rustic/nature/futuristic" and it will get tuned to your desired style immediately.
Iterate on that for 5 minutes or so and there's my perfect background for a "coming soon" flyer. Way better than I could have made in Canva. Good enough that multiple people have told me the flyers look amazing, and nobody guessed it was AI until I told them.
I've been trying to set up local SD (on windows or WSL) of and on for a few weeks now. Seems to be extremely complicated even with the packages that say they are "1 click install". Then I find out they have dependencies on Cuda, a million python machine learning packages, some package called xformers that I have to compile for my specific GPU, I have to download the right SD image and config, then I have to find and install the right upscaling package and on and on.
So no, I'm not using SD. I paid for a year of Midjourney for $100. Well worth it so far and honestly I think their latest V4 is just as good as SD. Probably is SD in fact, and it doesn't have that "Midjourney style" that previous versions had.
These are not just novelty value. They're great for mocking up ideas and I've also used them for generating backgrounds for advertising, for example:
"A black stage lit from above by two spotlights, very dramatic, stylish"
You can also add keywords like "modern/rustic/nature/futuristic" and it will get tuned to your desired style immediately.
Iterate on that for 5 minutes or so and there's my perfect background for a "coming soon" flyer. Way better than I could have made in Canva. Good enough that multiple people have told me the flyers look amazing, and nobody guessed it was AI until I told them.