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Welcome, humans.

Shoutout to any “Game of Thrones” extended universe fans out there who watched the House of the Dragon Season 2 finale last night. No spoilers… but we DID come across these stills from HBO’s awesome new Game of Thrones animated series…

OK, you got us—those were AI-generated. But hey, wouldn’t it be sick if they WERE real?

Let’s all @ HBO on X and let ‘em know we’d love to see this version of the show. They did announce a Jon Snow spinoff series back in the day…why not animate it?

We’ve already got the tagline: Instead of “Winter is coming”? “Coming this Winter…”

Here’s what you need to know about AI today:

Midjourney and FLUX upgrade their AI image tech.
OpenAI has been holding onto a 99.9% accurate AI detector.
Nvidia Blackwell design flaw may delay big tech AI rollouts.
Study: AI safety tests are flawed & need major improvements.

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New AI image models are here and they’re getting out of control (here’s how to use them).

This past week, two huge things happened in the world of AI image generators.

First up: Midjourney, the #1 image model out there, released v6.1, a new model with a ton of new features that make the best model even better.

Here’s what Midjourney v6.1 can do:

Create more realistic images, especially for body parts (hands), plants, and animals.
Generate images faster (about 25% quicker).
Improve text accuracy when including words in images.

Here’s what else happened: A new, open-source competitor to MJ arrived from Black Forest Labs called FLUX.1.

The team behind Black Forest is incredible, and the images FLUX can generate look on par to Midjourney

Why does this matter? Midjourney is closed-source, and to use it, you need to use Discord (here’s how). There’s also a web version (in alpha mode), but it's only for people who’ve already generated 1,000+ images. Plus, you have to pay.

As an open-source model, anyone can download and use FLUX for non-commercial purposes—but you probably have to be technical to figure it out. Luckily, you can try a hosted version here.

Right now, one cool thing you can do is take images from Midjourney and turn them into videos with an AI video generator. Image-to-video is the best way to get “reliable” AI video—as reliable as it can be in this stage, anyway.

Here’s how:

First, go to Midjourney (or Flux) and enter your prompt. Example: “A serene Japanese garden at twilight, with a red wooden bridge over a koi pond, surrounded by cherry blossom trees.”
Pick the image you like from Midjourney or Flux, save it, and go to a text to video generator like Kling, Dream Machine, or Runway Gen 3.
Select AI video, drag and drop the image in, and write a prompt to go along with it (the simpler the better).

Voilà, you’ve now either created A) a horrible monstrosity, please try again, or… B) one of the best AI videos possible today!

Here are more specific tutorials for Kling, Runway Gen 3, or Dream Machine.

And here are our Midjourney 6.1 prompting tips:

To use the new v6.1 on Midjourney, make sure to add --v6.1 to the end of your prompt.
Set the image's shape using "--ar". Example: "--ar 16:9" for widescreen
Get higher image quality settings using "--q 2" (but slower generation).

More example prompts to try here.

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Around the Horn.

Character.AI signed a “non-exclusive agreement” for Google to use Character.AI’s tech in its own products, and Character AI’s co-founders will join Google.
OpenAI built a “99.9%” accurate tool to detect AI-written content, but doesn’t want to release it in case it stigmatizes AI writing from non-English speakers.
Nvidia’s new chip (Blackwell) has a design flaw, which could push back the rollouts of new frontier models from big tech companies who need these chips for training.
The Ada Lovelace Institute found that current AI safety tests are inadequate, lack standardization, and struggle to predict real-world impact.

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