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How to Generate Deepfakes of Yourself In Midjourney to Make Anything Your Heart Can Imagine...Including Spicy YouTube Thumbnails!

How to Generate Deepfakes of Yourself In Midjourney to Make Anything Your Heart Can Imagine...Including Spicy YouTube Thumbnails!

And why I'm going to train either a Stable Diffusion model or a paid competitor and show you if that is a more effective method for tomorrow. Because yeah...these deep-fakes are pretty dang deep!

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As long as you’re okay with the deepfake looking kind of, er, deepfakey…you’re golden! Note: I really did fight this bear, though.

Y’all.

The things I do for you.

I obsess over how I look. Hate looking at millions of pics of me. Hate it!

But to train Midjourney, it was necessary. So dive into self-study I did.

And while these deepfakes definitely look, um, fake, I think for the purposes of YouTube thumbnails, it’s about on par with the scroll-stopping bait-and-switches I’ve seen from the big YouTube guys who are for sure using AI in their image generation.

The impetus for this post? I had a reader write me to ask me how to generate an image of herself in a fun and novel scenario, and I thought: Oh sure, man, that’ll be no problemo.

Boy did I learn differently. Hours upon hours upon hours figuring out what works.

But! I’ve now got the key parameter you need to use to make it as realistic as possible and I know how to introduce weird scenarios like my buddy the bear up there.

Ready to enter uncanny “Yassification” valley with me?

If I can stand it, so can you!

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