Neurosis on the brain: text weights in Midjourney
Initial experiments for the History of Art project with the term “neurosis” in the prompt returned results with brain-like imagery:
The image with the deflated brain (or is it a bunch of small brains piled like pillows?) was intriguing, the overall effect was not what I was going for. I then redid the prompt adding text weight modifiers to downweight or remove any brain-related output.
While the engineers who collect the data, design the model, and train it are responsible for what text-to-image generators can produce, the user still has a duty to accept, reject, or modify the results of their prompt.