Midjourney 5.1

Midjourney released version 5.1 of their image generation model on Tuesday. Here's their announcement on Twitter - if you have a Discord account there's a more detailed Discord announcement here.

They claim that "V5.1 is more opinionated (like V4) and is MUCH easier to use with short prompts" - in comparison to v5.

Last night (9:30pm PST on Wednesday May 3rd) they switched 5.1 to be the default - previously you had to add --v 5.1 to a prompt …

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