when a user finds one AI art model much better than another, this is often because there's prompt engineering forced into the backend!
With most stable diffusion front-ends, you're required to write the entire prompt yourself
but.. MJ/DALLE/etc *force* your prompt to look good
this will be a challenging point for SD moving forward, because *normal* users just want to ask for a 'cat' or a 'tree', and not have to type out sentences of artist names, tags, and look up references for how to prompt optimally (although power users may prefer this!)
few users will end up knowing that MidJourney uses Stable Diffusion behind the scenes, or know the extent that it adds a large amount of fine-tuning keywords to their prompts, so given its increased usability I wouldn't be surprised if MidJourney is more of a household name
heavenbanning, the hypothetical practice of banishing a user from a platform by causing everyone that they speak with to be replaced by AI models that constantly agree and praise them, but only from their own perspective, is entirely feasible with the current state of AI/LLMs
although the above article is fake (hence my phrasing as a 'hypothetical' and the article being dated in the future in 2024!), it's feasible to build this as a weekend project at this point, so it won't remain fake for very long now!
countless fun utopic/dystopic futures ahead!
also worth reading the headlines/ads at the top of the image, which most of us are rightfully conditioned to completely ignore