Honestly I'm not sure why people use such long prompts. I find it way easier to iterate on prompts when they're short and you just change a few key words to find the words that have the biggest impact on the generated images. It's really easy to fire off a bunch of prompts and queue a bunch of MJ jobs.
Seems to be a lot of superstition around prompts. Using longer prompts makes it feel like you're really casting a complex spell that makes you more advanced than a new user.
There is also an issue in many Standard Diffusion model files that makes them quite chaotic with short prompts. With some of those, I've found I get much better results by simply copy-paste-paste-paste-paste-paste-pasting a short positive and negative prompt even though in theory that should have negligible effect. Not all model files suffer from this, but it leads to superstition.
Then there's the whole "+masterpiece, +best quality, -bad hands, -extra limbs" superstition that comes from Danbooru-based models, but people coming on board just assume it's necessary everywhere.
That’s because we’ve sucked all joy out of creating something, so now we’re trying to create interesting prompts to feel creative again, it’s quite simple no ?
I think people can't believe it's really as simple as it is. If it's that simple, then there is no sacred knowledge, nothing to gatekeep, nothing to be the "expert" on. It means there are no novel methods or processes to discover. There is nothing to "learn" other than the syntax and a large enough vocabulary to describe what you're imagining.
There are prompt books and prompt sites where you can buy them a dollar at a time. The hustle culture has built this fog of fake complexity and hidden methods in order to prop up their little cottage industry. Every AI Guy on TikTok has a way to "maximize your productivity with GPT" so you can "Start an AI company".
We haven't sucked the joy out of creating things, we've just tried to further commodify the process of creating and in turn spun a web of myths and lore where there didn't need to be any.
>We haven't sucked the joy out of creating things, we've just tried to further commodify the process of creating and in turn spun a web of myths and lore where there didn't need to be any.
> That’s because we’ve sucked all joy out of creating something
Did we? Go grab a brush and some paint and create. The joy always come from the inside. If you can't seem to find it anymore inward is where you should look for it.
