Midjourney!

I believe Midjourney might be based on DALL-E2, or a subset derived from it... [edit: someone in a conversation elsewhere says that they think it's not DALL-E2 as researchers for that aren't allowed to show much of what they do with it. They think it's from an independent lab.] ...but they're not particularly forthcoming about it. It works wonderfully on art prompts, not so much on ones that force it to pull from photographic-based stuff. I admit I almost exclusively add "artstation" to my prompts because it gives me concept art type images, so I haven't explored too much beyond that. The FAQ says to try different artist names or combining different artist names, so I think Midjourney may be a DALL-E2 variant specifically fine-tuned on artworks.

It is also BLINDINGLY FAST, in that it will give me 4 variants of my prompt in less than a minute, and I can get it to do more variants or to upscale one of the variants, and that also takes only a minute or two.

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You have been warned

Looks like this blog is shaping up to be All Midjourney All The Time, so be warned.

Among other things, I've been experimenting with putting two disparate artist names into the prompt, to see what comes up.

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