We are almost at the mid 2024 point and I wanted to take a look at generated images and the states of the art when it comes to half a dozen services. I evaluated MidJourney, OpenAI (DallE), DaVinci, Leonardo AI, Adobe Firefly, Stable Diffusion. I passed in the exact same prompt into all of them and you can see the results.

The only exceptions in prompts were with OpenAI and Adobe Firefly. Because of the brand and real person names used with Mickey and Messi, both services rejected my prompts and said they were against their policies. So instead I used generic terms like "theme park costumed mouse" or "best soccer player from Argentina" and got the results you see. They are something. Soccer Jesus indeed Adobe.

In my opinion MidJourney is hands down the best image generation tool on the planet. The problem with them is they don't have an official API service so it makes adding their tool to your application a lot more difficult (unofficial API does exist but I'm too scared to give them a credit card.) I do have some concerns that the pairing of the words "evil" and "Mickey" isn't something that you can do with any service. Clearly there are lawyers installed in every AI generation server. I'm also disappointed that the only "free" open source software for Stable Diffusion is so horrible out of the box compared to the rest. It is quite far behind but I'm assuming that with some training and fine tuning you can get more relevant and better quality results.

Castle

Neuschwanstein castle, lightning, pixar style, volumetric lighting, unreal engine, hyper realistic, hyper detailed, maximum details, photorealistic, 8k, rimlight

MIDJOURNEY

OPENAI

DAVINCI

LEONARDO

FIREFLY

STABLE DIFFUSION

Family

Family on their laptops while sitting around a Christmas tree with presents underneath and looking worried because they have to finish up work, realistic, 4k,

MIDJOURNEY

OPENAI

DAVINCI

LEONARDO

FIREFLY

STABLE DIFFUSION

Evil Mickey

Evil mickey mouse taking a selfie in Disneyland surrounded by shocked families, realistic, 70s style polariod, 8k,

MIDJOURNEY

OPENAI

DAVINCI

LEONARDO

FIREFLY

STABLE DIFFUSION

Messi

Lionel messi wearing his Argentina uniform floating in the air with beams of light behind him posed like Jesus. Sunrise breaking behind him and a soft halo behind his head, in the style of a gothic stained glass window of a church, volumetric lighting, unreal engine, hyper realistic, hyper detailed, maximum details, photorealistic, 8k, rimlight, maximum details,