A ton of AI images I've made that I've liked

I think people with my aesthetic taste have been underrepresented in presentations of AI art. Here I try to change that

In the last year I’ve been playing around with MidJourney for a few minutes a week. Just a few minutes can generate a ton of interesting images. I’m collecting the ones I like the most to share here.

I’m posting this for two reasons:

• I think a lot of people still don’t know how good AI art’s gotten. I’m surprised that I haven’t seen more people playing around with it, or making the type of images I personally like. If we have the same aesthetic taste, you’ve also probably thought a lot of popular AI art looks kind of ugly. If we enjoy the same vibes, I’m hoping this post will convince you that AI tools can help you make a lot of images you find interesting and fun.

• I get a lot of good feedback when I share AI images I’ve made on Twitter, so I want a single place to collect the ones I like the most. I’ll use this post as a place to dump basically every AI image I’ve made that I really like.

Obviously it’s a philosophical question whether I “made” these, or whether they count as art. If you prefer, we can say I “found” these images in MidJourney’s vector space. I’m excited that I found them in the same way I’d be excited about finding a neat rock. I don’t think much of my own creativity went into this, and I know it’s different from creating art myself. Curating AI art feels kind of like curating a Pinterest board. I think that can be a neat way to spend time to develop and show off your own taste even if you’re not putting any creative effort into the images themselves.

When I have time, I’ll go back through these and add the prompts I used for each as alt-text. If you’d like the prompts for any of these in the meantime please let me know!

There are 152 images here. According to the MIT Tech Review, this means that altogether I used about 185 Wh of electricity to make these. That’s about the same energy you use running a normal kitchen microwave for 12 minutes, or playing a gaming console like a PS5 for about an hour. The average American household uses this much electricity every 8 minutes.

Solarpunk landscape architect sketches

Some variation of “Solarpunk landscape architect sketch, watercolor” plus a lot of specific descriptions works well as a prompt here.

MidJourney now lets you animate every image:

Bit art of utopian architecture and communities

General weird architecture

Worlds made of weird textures

Album covers

Spheres

Brutalist monuments in forests

Animals (mostly pigs)

Cities and towns

Cafes & diners

Photorealistic/can you believe this is AI?

Art Nouveau

Old photographs

Maps & aerials

Surreal

Misc