Midjourney, an AI image generator service, is turning off free trials temporarily as it grapples with server availability and “trial abuse.”
Since being launched into the public spotlight in 2022, AI image generators, like Midjourney, DALL-E, and Stable Diffusion, have all faced a number of criticisms from detractors of the technology and skeptics alike. While some of the biggest issues with these AI image generators have been related to copyright and art ethics, the issue of fake news and misinformation has also been high on the list of issues.
While earlier iterations of the technology generated images that were easily spotted as being AI-generated, they’ve gotten good enough in recent months that someone with a knack for writing the text prompts can easily generate an image convincing enough to get your uncle on Facebook riled up about events that never happened.
