Simon Willison’s Weblog

My guess is that MidJourney has been doing a massive-scale reinforcement learning from human feedback ("RLHF") - possibly the largest ever for text-to-image.

When human users choose to upscale an image, it's because they prefer it over the alternatives. It'd be a huge waste not to use this as a reward signal - cheap to collect, and exactly aligned with what your user base wants.

The more users you have, the better RLHF you can do. And then the more users you gain.

— Jim Fan