Are you ready to embark on a journey where technology meets artistic expression?

This is a groundbreaking book that explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and the world of art and design. Sorensen's expert guidance and insightful prompts empower artists and designers to tap into the incredible potential of AI, creating awe-inspiring artwork while maintaining ethical practices and honoring creative licenses.

In AI Whisperer: Unleashing Artistic Creativity, Severin Sorensen delivers an enlightening and practical guide that explores the fusion of artificial intelligence and the world of art and design. As AI continues to shape the future of various industries, Sorensen demonstrates how individuals can harness its creative potential and adapt it to their artistic endeavors. The book provides a comprehensive understanding of AI prompts, empowering readers to create breathtaking artwork while adhering to ethical standards and respecting creative licenses. Sorensen's expertise and engaging writing style make this book an accessible and invaluable resource for artists, designers, and anyone curious about the intersection of technology and art. By embracing AI rather than fearing it, readers can unlock a new realm of possibilities and enter a new business paradigm.

This is a fairly helpful book on using AI to make illustrations. The author wrote this when he had only 40 days experience using it and I’m not sure how much people need to buy the book if he could teach himself that quickly. I think it was probably written by AI too. The last book I read on using AI seemed to be (maybe by the same author or maybe they just all sound the same because they are all written by bots?). It has lots of examples of ways to use it like uploading a photo to anywhere with a hyperlink and asking mindjourney to make it into a Viking couple or light a fire in the fireplace and stuff like that. He shows examples of things he made like brochures, company reports, billboards, podcast ads, menus, magazine spreads, etc.

The problem I have is that you literally need to read one paragraph to get an idea of where to go (he recommends free mindjourney on Discord) and what kind of prompts to give. The rest is just filler of examples of ways you can use it. And he really doesn’t go into enough of the only part that might be confusing, which is how to use it on Discord. He doesn’t really cover that at all, just says that’s the only good one.

Looking through all the images he’s created in this book reinforces how unbelievably bored I already am with AI art. It all looks the same — like airbrushed artificial people in airbrushed artificial environments with airbrushed artificial stuff all around them. It just flashes fake and annoying and overused to me. Can we be over this yet?

All that said, it’s a fine guide to using AI art for business and personal use.

I read a digital version of this book via NetGalley.

While a good guide on the technical aspects of Midjourney, it did not go into depth on the ethics of it.
The chapters on how to use MidJourney are comprehensive and useful. Art is something that should be for everyone and AI is a poweful tool to help make art a fun hobby for anyone with access to internet.
If you're a hobbyist, this is definitely the perfect guide to get you started.

For professional work, this creates a large problem.
The first chapter literally says: "I have used stock imagery for my business work, paying high royalties for different subscriptions and licences for their use. Those subscription requirements have now largely ended now that I use MidJourney."
This plainly means creators of the stock images MidJourney uses are not compensated for their work in the way they used to,

Someone has created the images Midjourney uses, and for a book that has a section on protecting privacy, it feels odd that the privacy of the creators of those stock images are ignored.
They cannot deny Midjourney permission to use their work, they are not credited and they are not gaining fame or royalties.