i don't properly understand the question but ig this is tangentially related - stability ai open sourced dream studio https://stability.ai/blog/stablestudio-open-source-community-driven-future-dreamstudio-release and i heard that emad had attended a web3 x AI conference.
Ton of people using it. It is used in a more professional design capacity compared to Midjourney. Especially with ControlNet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZg3e6B2yPQ. You can't really make a consistent character across different scenes with MJ or Dall-E and I don't think they're anywhere near
Using their dreamstudio product on a regular basis, they recently released their text to animation product and Emad is engaging in interesting discussion on the AI alignment issue on social media/podcasts
Midjournney is the best. Playground and Leonardo are pretty good!
It seems like the commercialized applications are doing more promotion around their startup brands vs the model itself
it's more work to get good outputs, plus a bit complicated and finnicky, plus you basically have to get a subscription to colab pro anyway so might as well go with the better ux
It’s still around and well-represented. Personally it’s my favorite model because it’s free, open-source, and can be fine-tuned with additional training images. StabilityAI may have become less vocal about SD on the PR side because of the two lawsuits they’re fielding.