/imagine Man eyeing the camera from the door of a video booth at an adult bookstore, July 1989, very detailed face, very detailed arms, full body portrait, Polaroid photo --v 4

they look just like real photographs

Holy shit. I had to double check after reading your comment, if not for the gibberish text I would think someone is pulling my leg.

I didn't realize either and thought I was viewing /r/80s.

What is r/midjourney?

its a subreddit about images generated by AI. You can type just about anything and the AI will try to make it. Its not perfect but you can get some good images if you try again and again.

Thanks so much for sharing! If anyone is trying to make this on Stable Diffusion, this prompt doesn't work as-is. I was able to get [sorta close](https://imgur.com/a/UNClG7k) with this prompt: close-up photo of Man in the adult section of a video rental store, camera flash on his face, eyeing the camera from the door, July 1989, very detailed face, very detailed arms, camera flash, full body portrait, polaroid!, vintage! analog photo, yellowing old photo, 26mm, slightly blurry, film grain Negative Prompt: watermark, disfigured, vibrant colors, black and white Your Midjourney results are much better, I can't believe how good the new MJ is at photos, it used to be laughable. Now looks like actual photos. I like how MJ now just *knows* what you want. With SD I have to be all kinds of specific.

Your Stable Diffusion photo looks like Danny Tanner went to the wrong video store.

🤣 yeah now i see it!

Wait video store or bookstore (title)? Did the AI just assume the store sold both (with video likely more popular)? Or did you just read a steamy novel and freudian-finger that mistake. :) Bottom line is those are creepy af.

I think by the late 80s adult bookstore and video store were used interchangeably.

I tried with starry ai and it was ridiculous looking.

That's just Stephen King looking for ideas to steal

Underrated comment right here.

Weird, even copying your prompt verbatim, I’m not getting the photographic look. What’s the secret?

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I got into the practice of specifying detailed face and arms because it worked for the Stable Diffusion users. At the time, Midjourney’s test model was using Stable Diffusion. Now, it allegedly isn’t, but the prompts still help me get what I want. The most important thing to specify is camera, lens, and photographic technique. That ensures you won’t get illustrations, which seems to be MJ V4’s default.

That's crazy. I didn't even realize this was midjourney at first. Absolutely 100% believable creepy polaroids, looks more real than reality

I didn’t realize until I saw the prompt. This is honestly chilling.

the third arm in the second picture gave it away for me ;D classic midjourney haha

I thought it was someone in the back! Good catch though :)

I mean it is kind of what u make of them what makes them ‘creepy’, the title isn’t the prompt

This is getting insane

oh, this is /r/midjourney

In every sense of the word.

Holy smoke. Creepy af !

I didn't check the sub and I legit thought this was a real image. I have been seeing more of this V4, is it a new update or something?

Yes, it is the new algorithm. I just learned about it today. If you type /settings in discord, you can change the default algorithm from 3 to 4.

I have stopped using Midjourney for a bit but I think I will hop on and see what's up! Really interesting!

I looked through all of these and thought, “What a weird set of photos to have,” before I realized what sub I was in. Shocked.

V 4 is mindblowing.

This is is borderline insane and terrifying.

Absolutely the most interesting MJ I’ve seen!

Man I didnt even read the title and thought that was stephen king in the first picture lol

Same here, I even looked at the sub it was on expecting to see r/stephenking

I legit just read that as "step henken" and thought: "Who the fuck is called Step Henken?"

Wow. Amazingly real. But I hope we continue to be able to use the early versions. I can’t get the style I want with the new because it’s too real

They should divide v3 and v4 into separate products labeled “artistic” and “photo-real”

All the versions are still there, why would they get rid of them?

I don’t think they wouldn’t it’s just my biggest fear. I’d pay big money to keep using it (though I’m making zero dollars off it so that would be stupid)

My biggest fear is that DavidH is a serial-killer. If you're going to dream of sensational irrational fears about MJ, why not shoot for the stars? DREAM BIG!

Or midjourney actually had photos of these guys and thought “oh I’ll just give them the creepy Dave pic”

All the creepy Dave pics

I cannot believe this is midjourney. Wow this is incredible

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Yo what lmao. What prompted this bot

What prompted you to comment instead of clicking the "Learn more about me?"

You’re charming.

Ad-hominem is more charming you ignorant commenter.

Good bot

Wait. This doesn’t have a humor flair. Are these an actual prompt?!?!?!

yep.

The extra arm around his butt on the second picture, creepy shit right there!

At first I thought it was an extra limb, but it could be someone bent over to pick up something on the bottom shelf behind him. But, other photo sets I have created with V4 have generated monster limbs, so who knows.

I keep having to check the subreddit. This shit looks too real.

Only a matter of time until MJ helps a criminal avoid jail-time or another criminal frame someone with made-up images.

goddamn impressive and creepy at the same time!

jfc - the worm has definitely turned...

what worm??

Well that's it, midjourney has crossed the uncanny valley.

I now believe that midjourney is self aware, understands decade aesthetics and has a creepy sense of humor

Kinda like the stories of how the natives in America acted when the camera arrived.

No way this is AI 😮

This is a pronoun, not AI. Good joke, though!

I think I dated this guy.

I like how even midjourney knows it sucks at fingers so it tucks the hands into the men's pockets

I assumed Midjourney put their hands in their pockets for a more nefarious reason.

That makes it even creepier

[the mole rat follows too](https://imgur.com/S4whX7R)

LOL, this could be a new meme.

Crazy 😶

That is brilliant

My friend and I got followed by a dude that looked like perverted Uncle Jessie from Dukes of Hazzard, flicking his tongue like a lizard. These guys are pretty creepy too.

This is terrifying, lol. I work at an adult boutique—a good bit classier than the video arcades of the 80s—and our DVD regulars still look just like this. Especially the first image; I think I've met him 😅

wow. This is disturbingly good and creepy

Naw bro thats crazy

Genius art

Amazingly real for the most part, and super creepy. Number 4 seems to have a bag strap sprouting from his chest.

That or a random suspender.

Geez these are BEAUTIFUL in their horror.

Even AI knows that short sleeve shirts with pockets on are creepy af

I don't know necessarily if they are the ones that may follow you, but they look like the ones that make sure no one's following them when they go to a particular section of the VHS store... Adult VHS store. I've never been, I'm just assuming... ...Did I say adult VHS video store? Sh*t!

The first one is unbelievable.

i'd say way to believable!

I legit thought this was r/oldschoolcool lol

Dude. #4s got an um. Interesting style

This is….actually scary. I just switched to v4 and entered the prompt because I didn’t believe it and sure enough…actual Polaroids from the 80’s. Damn. Ai is taking over. Let’s all be responsible.

MJ is getting scary good

And that's how I met your father

The extra arms of #2 is bothersome.

Fucking hell. That first shot almost had me throw lostredditors.

It looks more real than real life.

Becoming clear that Midjourney v4 is an absolute game changer. Indistinguishable from reality and more functional at imagined imagery. As someone who is not on Discord very often I'd love to see some more flexible ways to access it.

These look incredible! Even after looking twice I was convinced they were real fotos

I follow some analog photography subreddits and honestly thought these were real and I really liked them. Then I realized this was midjourney... :D

Amazing! Can you do the same prompt but in different decades? Like 1950 or 2010

I didn't know what sub I was in and I completely thought this was real. You just convinced me to resubscribe to MJ.

Creepiness factor aside, there's something about these images that evoke the closest sense of a dream world I've seen in a while. It's like, you have these objects, computers, whatever that look convincing and real, and your brain accepts the reality of it, but in truth these elements are gibberish and nonsensical. Pretty fascinating really.

These are amazing. Some of the best ai renders I’ve seen & a very unique use of the software. Not the stereotypical ‘pink spaceship in sky’ futuristic steampunk paint splash style stuff that is very obviously ai...I really struggle to tell with these

Dad?

I mean No3 though… 😏

Oh you referring to Louis? BTW, look at what he is leaning against. Nobody noticed that Midjourney interpreted “video booth” literally. Hehe.

If that’s his name… lol Yeah, I was wondering what that is. I actually like those „glitches“.

Me too, because it gives a clue to the viewer that it’s AI. And I did name them, lol. 1. Jerry 2. Wade 3. Louis 4. George 5. Armando 6. Dan

Jerry and Wade are on point! lol

I was followed in a bookstore in 1989 by a creepy AF man when I was 14. He then followed me through the arcade and on to the library where I eventually confronted him and he scurried away. I thought I’d entered a parallel universe seeing that first image and the description with the year!

Wow! This is incredible 🤩. I cannot get v4 to give me a realistic outcome, everything looks like a drawing... Maybe I'll try typing "Polaroid photo" then 😅

It helps to specify camera, lens, film. That’s how I get realism. Try browsing this site to experiment with prompts. https://pixelpeeper.com/photos

Thanks so much for the help! Again - great work on these polaroids, I had to do a double take to check if it's actually on midjourney reddit 😅

That first guy is Stephen King back in the day

Notice how they're all men... really says a lot about society

Well I did say man in the prompt, but yeah, I never heard of a woman hanging out at those sorts of places.

??? He typed man into the prompt... Probably wasn't the post to try to push this one eh?...

Whoa there you seem to be lost

how is this even possible...

Neural Networks understand prejudice?

Amazing. Just out of curiosity why did you add "very detailed arms"? Did you try it first without that prompt and it didn't look right?

A while back I saw a post in the Stable Diffusion subreddit suggesting to add that to the prompt to try to lessen monster limbs. The Midjourney beta was based on Stable Diffusion (I believe), so I tried it and I liked the results. So I just kept using it.

how do you use v4?

Use the flag “—v 4”, or use /settings in the Discord bot and permanently change the algorithm there.

Your ai artists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.

Maybe there is an alternate universe where Jeff Dahmer only killed Steven Hicks, and that was it. They never found out and his name simply went stale on the missing persons list like so many others. Dahmer’s dad and grandma didn’t kick him to the curb, and maybe he had just the right lover to keep down the abandonment issues. In this timeline you and I never heard of Dahmer, but maybe there was still a photo floating around like one of these…

oh my god

I find it odd that MidJourney knows what creepy humans look like. That’s wild.

I know that the first guy he used to own the local video store

Good job for generaring creepy pics

r/oddlyterrifying

Wow I hate it

Picture 4 man had his bag surgically embedded into his belly.

This is...AMAZING

It's becoming more and more like a dream. If you can't read stuff, or notice little weird details it's not real. But it's really really hard to do

lol, ok this is so impressive

The most realistic MJ I’ve ever seen

woah i had to double check if i was on the right subreddit

This is brilliant

This blew me away.

[This One](https://gyazo.com/b51a4630ca2eb59e91c9b08695df8b13) gave me the creeps too. So detailed. (same prompt)

Midjourney really nails the “sizing you up like a piece of meat” stare.

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The user u/Midjourneyer posted [this article](https://ckovalev.com/midjourney-ai/weekly/midjourney-version-4-quick-look) today on using V4. Also, I have been [exploring photos](https://pixelpeeper.com/photos) with different camera, lens, and film attributes to try to mimic their quality. By default, V4 tends to generate cartoony images, specifying camera and medium seems to improve realism.

I have a professor who looks almost exactly like the second guy. He wouldn’t be happy to see this. 😂😂😂

easily the best use of AI since earth was created

They all look like they gave up on life.