Course Provider Domestika’s Midjourney Class Disappoints Real Artists

Over the past few days, the course provider has faced a barrage of criticism from hundreds of individuals on social media, following a publication shared via Domestika’s official Twitter page promoting Master Midjourney, a new class teaching the incomprehensibly challenging task of putting words into a text box and pressing the “Generate” button.

While courses on various AIs like ChatGPT, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and many others are quite common on other platforms as well, such as Udemy and Skillshare, the situation has garnered particular attention specifically due to Domestika’s focus on art-related courses and a large userbase of human artists, who generally aren’t too keen on supporting data-scraping, artwork-plagiarizing, jobs-stealing AI developers: