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Testing Thinking Mode

Testing Thinking Mode

AI research Midjourney
Midjourney is testing a 'Thinking Mode' that forces the model to deliberate before generating images, improving accuracy, typography, and visual coherence.
What: The feature is currently available on the Midjourney Alpha website under the 'Rerun (Thinking)' option in the job lightbox. The company is soliciting user feedback to decide whether to integrate it permanently.
Why it matters: This trend of explicit 'thinking' steps mirrors advancements in text-based models, suggesting that generative models are shifting from immediate completion to iterative internal refinement.
Takeaway: Test the 'Rerun (Thinking)' feature on your existing prompts and report your observations in the #ideas-and-features channel on Midjourney's Discord.
Original article

hi everyone! We're testing a new "Thinking Mode" for image generation on our Alpha website and we'd love your feedback.

To run it go under the lightbox for a job and click "Rerun (Thinking)" in the lower right corner

We're finding in tests that this helps make the model better at prompt accuracy, typography, and coherence.

We'd love your help testing it on your images and telling us where it does/doesnt help and what other sort of issues you might find.

In the future we might make this available broadly as a 'thinking' mode or as a way to 'add more thinking' after the job.

We're trying to both improve performance and just generally investigate this direction and would love your thoughts.

Please drop us examples and opinions in #ideas-and-features

Thank you so much! ❤️

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