In the past couple of months, AI generative art has been gaining popularity on twitter. But how does it work, and how can it be integrated with crypto?
In episode 21 of the Defi podcast, hosts JF Saine and Jared M welcome Daniel Killeen of Avalabs and Dag, the cofounder of moremoney finance and creator of Dreamer Space Guild. They discuss the current NFT landscape on AVAX, and how current AI technology can be improved upon, among other things.
Read our notes below to learn more.
AVAX NFTs
Daniel
Bear market allowed Avalabs to become more structured.
Hired a team member to lead NFT growth.
AVAX ecosystem has experienced some NFT success, including AVAX Party Animals, AVAX Apes, a Banksy NFT release, and more.
Team is focusing on generative and AI art.
Large AVAX community is open to new things, such as NFTs.
AVAX subnets have more scalable blockspace that can allow AVAX to become the ‘art chain’ of crypto.
Evolution of Art
Primary art auction houses looking to build onchain presence.
RFID technology development is connecting onchain and offchain art.
Daniel is becoming more bullish on AI generated art e.g., DALLE and Stable Diffusion.
Image generated via Stable Diffusion AI
Dag
AI art can target audiences more effectively than traditional art, provide a more in-depth experience.
Current AI Art generators are trained with unsupervised, random learning which can hamper artist ability to create the art they want.
Stable Diffusion ML (machine learning) is open source and users are modifying it as they see fit.
Interested for language models to become available on consumer hardware.
AI tech moves very fast.
(If you want to learn what Vitalik thinks about AI, read our notes here)
Dreamer Space Guild
Dreamer Space Guild is a highly customizable, AI generated NFT collection.
Dag
Watch episode 20 to learn more about Dreamer Space Guild (DSG)
Aims to tweak the current available AI tech.
Wants to inject a vision and allow audience to input their own ideas, similar to mad-libs.
Could allow for community interactive art generation e.g., creating a music generating AI and distributing to to anyone who wants to use it, or using community input to create an AI music video.
Users could collaborate with their favorite artists.
AI ML will enable more people to use generative art.
AI ML will allow some skilled users to create art that was never possible to create before.
Jared M
Unlike current NFTs, AI art NFTs with community input could vary widely.
Can be difficult to achieve a specific outcome if the AI isn’t used to the input.
DSG team is working on a way to customize art styles that the AI ML can use by implementing 3 tiers of customization:
Using words that you think the AI will understand for your style.
Uploading a previous image to set the tone for the next generated image.
Training or augmenting a model to learn a specific art style.
How Could AVAX Community React to AI Art?
Daniel
Community could have mixed reactions.
AI can disrupt current art environment.
However, AI could enable people who couldn’t create Art before to have the ability to generate their own art.
Jared
Opens a new and more defined market for art.
Dag
Some excitement around AI might wear off over time if people have very high expectations.
AI generated music and games are possible
Dag is most excited about what individuals will create with AI
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