In the last three years, AI art has gone from niche curiosity to ubiquitous scourge of the internet. One of the companies responsible for that has been Midjourney. For a time, it had the most realistic image generation model, and it continues to be one of the platforms that's shown least regard to copyright or responsible use.
While now competition from many other models, from Google's Nano Banana to OpenAI's Sora 2 for video and Adobe Firefly's more commercially sound options, Midjourney is still going strong despite the lawsuits against. But what are people using it for? The AI platform Kapwing ran some numbers, and a couple of its findings are a little surprising.
