How Generative AI is Breathing Life Into The Magazine Industry, One Pixel at a Time
Sometimes it feels just like the print journal business is in a freefall. But a generative synthetic intelligence (AI) analysis lab from San Francisco, Midjourney, not too long ago made a daring choice: to launch a print journal that includes AI photos by their customers. Why? It seems the Internet didn’t kill the print journal business. Not solely that! The current emergence of the generative AI picture tsunami is driving a serious shift in print business requirements. The query of whether or not shoppers are able to pay for AI-generated photos in print is already moot. Would you pay to flip via shiny pages of algorithmically assembled eye sweet?
The first journal subscription in years arrived in my publish field. A pair of intensely blue pupils pierced me from behind the mysterious and pale china-doll face splashed with blue, yellow, and carmine dots. My gaze slid down from the highest of the 8.5×11 cowl midway in direction of voluptuously overpainted lips popping in crimson to match the outrageous mascara framing the almond geisha eyes. Under the straightforward title a white info strip that includes the difficulty date and the imaginative and prescient assertion:
Midjourney is an unbiased analysis lab exploring new mediums of thought and increasing the imaginative powers of the human species.
The journal is a month-to-month publication to focus on and develop the paintings created by our international group.
The entire package deal feels good in hand, with the thickness and weight you’d anticipate from a premium newsstand journal, full with velvet eggshell cowl to ship shivers out of your digits to your backbone. Flipping its vibrant pages is a deliciously enjoyable frisson expertise. But how lengthy will it final?
Midjourney Magazine, a symphony of colors and shapes, is greater than only a publication. It’s an expertise, as contemporary and…
