Recently, Douyin AI painting has become a hot data push keyword. You don’t need too much professional art skills to make a funny image with dazzling colors or identity changes through mobile AI tools. AI painting makes "everyone is an artist" /creator" is possible.
The emergence of short videos has lowered the threshold of language expression and narrowed the gap between time and space between people, while the emergence of AI painting tools has enabled real interaction between art and life, and art no longer has to lie proudly in museums or private collections Here, it can also be at your fingertips like the milk in the textbook refrigerator on the desk. Why is AI painting so popular?
Behind the popularity of AI painting is the breakthrough of key technologies. After all, technology is the primary productive force, and many great imagery can be realized with the assistance of technological progress.
In the past, in the field of AI, NLP was used to process natural language (text type) in speech recognition, automatic writing, etc., while visual presentation and automatic driving screen processing were to process graphics and images. There were insurmountable technical difficulties between the two. The CLIP model proposed by Open A is mostly used in image processing. This model uses the marked"text-image"Training data, on the one hand, model training is performed on text, and another model is trained on images at the same time, and the internal parameters of the two models are continuously adjusted, so that the text feature value and image feature value can make the corresponding"text-image"Confirm the match.
Image source: Diffusion
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1. Can AI paintings be directly turned into NFTs?
AI-generated NFTs are a new genre of art that is gaining popularity among the community, as well as those interested in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and the metaverse
Traditional NFT is static, unique and indivisible, serving as a digital certificate of ownership of the underlying asset it represents, with many rights attached
But despite their huge advantages, traditional NFTs are still largely associated with static assets, that is, virtual items that cannot evolve, such as images and GIFs. Think of some of the most famous NFTs such as CryptoPunks or the Bored Ape Yacht Club collection. They're very popular (and very expensive), but at the end of the day, we can safely say that these NFTs don't do much.
On the other hand, however, AI NFTs make generative evolution work. For example, a smart NFT can create new content by itself and integrate dynamic experiences into its smart contacts as a result of its self-learning ability. The more an NFT is exposed to a given environment or user, the more it can extract data and build knowledge. Therefore, these types of tokens are not only smart, but also upgradeable, dynamic and scalable.
Image credit: Midjourney
AI-generated NFT art is a relatively new genre of art that combines artistic creation with some form of artificial intelligence
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2. What are the AI authoring tools?
More and more AI creation tools are beginning to be opened to ordinary users, which makes AI art creation a game as simple as "you draw and guess".
Image source: WOMBO
In addition to the recently popular keyword generation image tool Disco Diffusion, similar ones include WOMBO Dream, NightCafe Creator, Midjourney, Imagen (Google) and DALL·E 2 (OpenAI), etc.
Most of these tools can be used for free, and there are paid versions and functions, which also have different requirements for copyright ownership and scope of use.
Disco Diffusion: Text generates pictures or videos. The generated works are mainly influenced by the style of painting and artists. The description of details and characters is poor. It is free and open source, and the copyright belongs to the creator. It can be copied, modified or even sold.
WOMBO: Text generates pictures, and the generated works are abstract, and the output results of the same keyword are different every time. It is currently free and the copyright belongs to the creator.
Midjoumey: Text generates pictures, image generation is faster, more accurate, and more imaginative than Disco Diffusion, and it handles portraits better. Free or paid subscriptions for a limited time, free works cannot be used commercially. The paid version is available for commercial use.
DALL-E 2: Generate pictures from text, or synthesize new pictures based on existing pictures. It is more powerful in portrait, detail drawing, rendering and modeling. It needs to apply for qualifications and cannot be used commercially.
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3. Is the NFT generated by AI valuable?
Eponym is an AI algorithm developed by Art AI that can generate works of art based on words or phrases. It can generate abstract works of art within one minute, cast them into NFTs, and engrave them on Ethereum.
Image credit: Opensea
Eponym’s first product on OpenSea was sold out within a few hours, and 4,722 NFT transactions have been completed so far, with a total transaction volume of 4,697 ETH.
In addition to Eponym, other projects about AI-generated NFTs include Metascapes. The original material comes from photos taken from the most fantastic locations in the world, and then AI generates these photos after learning. Currently, its transaction volume on OpenSea has reached 315 ETH
In fact, the trend of using AI to generate NFTs started as early as 2018. In April 2018, artist Robbie Barrat used AI to generate a painting called "AI Generated Nude Portrait#1" and published it on the SuperRare platform;
In 2019, artist Anna Ridler cooperated with AI researcher David Pfau to complete the "Bloemenveiling" project, which is an online auction program for tulip video NFT generated by the GAN model. It sells works through smart contracts on the Ethereum network, using robots to To bid and drive up prices, Anna wanted to use this work to critique the way technology drives human desire and economic dynamics by artificially creating scarcity.
As more and more people enter the market, the NFT market generated by AI not only increases the transaction volume, but also attracts the participation of technology giants.
In November 2021, an AI painting algorithm called Botto fetched a high price of $1.3 million at auction with six NFT works. Botto is a decentralized AI painting tool with an art community of the same name.
Image credit: AI artist Botto
Every week, Botto will present 350 artworks to the community, and then community members will vote for their favorite artworks. Botto will train its own algorithm based on the attributes of the winning works to guide the "style" of its future works. And then generate new paintings.
The last piece of generated artwork every week will be minted into NFT and put on the SuperRare platform for auction. As of October 2, 2022, Botto's total sales have reached $22.59 million.
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4. Legal and ethical issues of AI NFT
AI painting has been accompanied by controversy since its inception. At present, all the pictures generated by AI tools on the market, even if paid, are only "theoretically commercially available", and there are still certain risks. The risk mainly comes from the fact that the description words will attract plagiarism. dispute.
Image credit: Midjourney
Artists strive to create a certain style, but what happens if their work is used as material by AI?
However, from a legal perspective, it is not easy to determine the infringement. Compared with text, more complex pictures need to provide more sufficient and detailed evidence support
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5. The future of AI NFT art
At present, many works directly generated by AI look exquisite and complex, but lack awareness and integrity, or are too abstract and poorly interpretable. They are amazing at first glance, but some incomprehensible places will appear upon careful observation.
Therefore, some artists have begun to try to use AI as an auxiliary tool, use the results generated by AI as creative materials, and then modify and combine them to form a relatively complete work.
Some are by constantly debugging keywords to make the works generated by AI easier to understand and closer to works of art in the general sense. I believe that there will be artists who specifically use AI to create in the near future.
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Presently, the performance of artificial intelligence is interesting and novel, but at the same time it will also be an aesthetic of a certain period. AI artwork may look fresh and interesting today, but soon they won't. After they cease to be new things brought into art galleries, ultimately, the most important things live on as art history.
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