There is no doubt that AI-based photo generators are one of the strongest trends in the technology world in recent months. OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 was indeed the pioneer, but it was followed by a host of competing models such as Midjourney or Stable Diffusion, on which the Israeli Lightricks is also based. But as everyone who experiences this wonder immediately discovers, the big secret to an excellent result is the requests and their wording – the Prompts. In other words, if you are not precise and know exactly the keywords of the style you want, the angle, the lighting and dozens of other parameters – you will waste valuable rendering time and yes, credits and money as well.
But trust the world of technology that there will not be a vacuum. In recent months, along with the boom in photo synthesizers, services and websites are coming online that will help you refine the prompts, so that you get exactly what you want – in the fastest way.
Don’t waste credits, pay for a good prompt
Take for example an American startup called PromptBase, which decided to take advantage of the hot field to introduce a marketplace for Prompts, so that you don’t waste precious credits on Daly 2 or Midgerni. The marketplace allows users to choose the prompt that suits them according to a large number of styles, and is adapted to the different generators so that it relies on the strengths of each model to reach a more successful final product.
All you have to do is enter the Promptbase marketplace and browse through the different categories of the results that interest you, and according to the model you want to use (Midjourney, Dali 2 or Stable Diffusion). did you choose All you need now is to pay – the prices range from $1.29 to $2.99 for the prompt – and you will get access to the file with the prompt that you can then run on the model you have chosen. Like any marketplace, Promptbase also charges a commission, with the rest going to the “prompt engineers” who wrote them.
In the kawaii section?
Along with these models, if you happen to have access to GPT-3 and you want to try and get the most out of OpenAI’s monstrous language model (on which, of course, DALL-E 2 is also based), you can purchase various prompts for this in the marketplace as well. Unlike the requests from the image generators, in the case of GPT-3 you can find requests that are a bit more expensive – and the prices range from two dollars to up to about $6 for requests for the language model. Interestingly, one of the prompts you can request is for a viral post to LinkedIn – similar to the troll created by an Israeli hitkist.
If you feel that you have already managed to crack the task of writing prompts, PromptBase will also offer you the option of submitting your own proposals to the system – and if these are accepted, you can also get paid for each purchase of the prompt you created. You will be able to connect your bank account to the system and receive payments for each purchase. That is, of course, as long as you pass the examining eyes of Ben Stokes – the man behind the startup and the marketplace.
By the way, if you want to check in time the prompts you purchased from the marketplace without leaving it at all, you can – roughly. PromptBase are taking advantage of the fact that Stable Diffusion is open source and have created a generator client right inside their marketplace. All you need is to connect, and run any prompts you want – even those not purchased directly from the platform. It is important to note that using this client is based on credits, like using Dali or Midgerni, so use your credits wisely.
The Israeli who will give it to you for free
Verber’s Dallelist | Screenshot
Alongside PromptBase, there are also those who want to help you for free – but with a rather serious regret. Ariel Verber, is the manager of the “Dali 2 Israel” group on Facebook and a product designer at Mixtiles, who decided to pick up the gauntlet and help you make your prompts more accurate – only without the part of paying. The catch is that, unlike PromptBase’s marketplace, the chrome extension developed by Ariel Verber – named Dallelist – The collection of keywords that will sharpen your prompt is only for Dali 2.
“When Dali came out to the first users and I saw what he could do, something didn’t add up in my head. As a geek who has seen a lot of things on the Internet, it was unlike anything I’ve seen here in the last 20 years and even felt a little alien,” says Verber in a conversation with Geektime. “This led me to want to explore it more deeply and also to make it more accessible to the general public who are less technological: this was manifested in the Facebook group, the guides, an article here in Giktime and now an incarnation in the form of this plugin,” says Verber.
He says that the plugin is not technologically complex, and knows how to inject the completions into Dali’s website, and as soon as one of the keywords is selected, he knows how to add the additional relevant words to Dali’s field. Part of the development was done in Rocket, but Verber says that he encountered a lot of difficulties in the development, since he is not a programmer by profession: “In the last push I received significant help from a friend and I completed the rest myself. The real challenge was to understand which keywords would be relevant and useful and how to divide the categories and subcategories, this It cost me quite a few credits and research of what people create,” he concludes.
But what about those who have not had better luck, and have not yet received the email from OpenAI and are still relying on free models such as Midjourney or Stable Diffusion? Verber says that he is thinking about creating tools compatible with these models: “They will have to work in a different way because the parameters there are different and the results from the addition of one single word are much less predictable. I’m also not sure that they will be plugins for Chrome, because Midgerani is currently available in Discord and Stable Diffusion is sitting in thousands of different interfaces.’