My example is kind of trivial, but I've used Midjourney with its --tile option to make backgrounds for web pages. One case is an internal tool where I just wanted to spice up the homepage and so I put in a rotating background, and another is a game where I put in one of ~50 backgrounds based on the environment.
I don't think many people use the tile option in Midjourney, but it's fun because it's not easy to make tiling images, and the result is generally aesthetic and not representational so the AI aspects are fine.
I have a friend who is using Midjourney to illustrate some instructional material she's writing. It's a little like stock photography, though without AI she wouldn't have used stock photography, and the art itself is more like graphical design. She keeps it fairly abstract but has artists and themes she uses consistently (lots of Ezra Jack Keats). She's probably creating dozens of images to get one usable one. But both of us enjoy the process, there's something a bit meditative to making Midjourney images sometime... a quirk of their Discord interface too, I suppose. Dall-E is much more instructable, but doesn't have any feeling of flow.
I've toyed recently with the idea of creating a massive number of pre-built avatar images for NPCs: https://hachyderm.io/@ianbicking/111740198056655468 – for my use case the most consistency I need is to change the age of characters, which works well with a fixed seed and no other pose changes. I'd probably use Stable Diffusion because Midjourney isn't scriptable and Dall-E is too expensive and lacks controls for aspect ratio and seeds. Obviously lots of people do live character image creation, but the cost and operational complexity kind of annoys me.
I don't think many people use the tile option in Midjourney, but it's fun because it's not easy to make tiling images, and the result is generally aesthetic and not representational so the AI aspects are fine.
I have a friend who is using Midjourney to illustrate some instructional material she's writing. It's a little like stock photography, though without AI she wouldn't have used stock photography, and the art itself is more like graphical design. She keeps it fairly abstract but has artists and themes she uses consistently (lots of Ezra Jack Keats). She's probably creating dozens of images to get one usable one. But both of us enjoy the process, there's something a bit meditative to making Midjourney images sometime... a quirk of their Discord interface too, I suppose. Dall-E is much more instructable, but doesn't have any feeling of flow.
I've toyed recently with the idea of creating a massive number of pre-built avatar images for NPCs: https://hachyderm.io/@ianbicking/111740198056655468 – for my use case the most consistency I need is to change the age of characters, which works well with a fixed seed and no other pose changes. I'd probably use Stable Diffusion because Midjourney isn't scriptable and Dall-E is too expensive and lacks controls for aspect ratio and seeds. Obviously lots of people do live character image creation, but the cost and operational complexity kind of annoys me.