I wanted to see if Midjourney also has a “hidden language” like DALL-E 2 in this post: https://programming.dev/post/102011

So I ran a little experiment.

I gave this prompt from the article to Midjourney:

Two farmers talking about vegetables, with subtitles --q 2

But it didn’t produce any text:

Then I tried this:

text logo of fitness company including motto --q 2

This gave me what I wanted: logos with text.

Then entered the nonsensical words from one of the logos:

FRVNE MIASE --q 2

This triggered an abuse detection filter which I appealed. Then Midjourney produced these equally nonsensical but absolutely wonderful images:

First I thought that the results had nothing to do with the original prompt, but if you look at the logo, it has mountains in it, so maybe “FRVNE MIASE” means mountain?

I don’t have more time to play around with this but if someone else can get further with it, I would love to see the results!

  • mo_ztt ✅English
    1•1 year ago

    So… I don’t know that much about it, but as I understand it, this isn’t really a “hidden” language in the sense of something deliberate, but more the outcome from stimulating the language-understanding network in a way it’s not been trained on. If it gets a string of tokens that’s just some nonsense, then it’ll tend to light up its output nodes in some semi-random pattern that’s nonetheless slightly consistent depending on what the input is. Then, that somewhat-random pattern of nodes will go into the art-generating network, and stimulate some random set of nodes related to what art it wants to produce, without adding up to anything coherent. And yes, the results (if e.g. you feed it just a string of gibberish from a nonsense word generator) are fairly wonderful: