I am creating a series of AI Generated Memes for the NFT gallery on HIVEme.me. Today's NFT is titled Abstract Declaration. The image is a cubist rendition of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence.
You can see the image on NightCafe .
I am selling the image at cost. It cost 1000 MEME to create the image. I am keeping the fifth edition and published the first four. 1000/4 = 250.
The gallery takes a 10% cut on sales; So, I set the price at 280. This way I will fully recoup my cost. 280 MEME is just under one US penny.
This image is ideal for posts about independence and world history.
Hurray, I Sold Some NFTs!
BTW, I sold a few of the images yesterday. The sales provided the 1000 MEME I need to publish today's post. I am really grateful for the patronage.
Feel free to relist the images at a higher price. BTW: I will be happy to buy back any images listed at the original sale price.
The Meme Behind the NFT
Several weeks ago, Youtube shoved a short video in my feed. The video discussed world history. The video showed AI enhanced images of a historical event. The video had a realistic voice, but may have been artificially generated. It is likely that AI generated the script for the video.
The video had some inaccuracies.
Watching the video made me realize that AI was creating a distorted image of world history.
Cubism is a painting style that appeared in the twentieth century. Abstract art allows the artist to highlight different aspects of an image.
When done correctly, abstract art can help people develop a richer understanding of history, but inaccuracies still creep in.
For example, the image created by NightCafe has stars from a flag that did not exist at the signing of the declaration. Francis Hopkinson, a signer of the Declaration, designed the Stars and Stripes flag the year after the Declaration. That is a really minor detail.
There have been some big distortions. Pundits noted that the Gemini AI created by Google refused to create images of white people. Gemini was creating images of the founding of the United States in which the founders were African American. When asked to create an image of George Washington, Gemini produced the image of an African American dressed like Washington.
Google took its image generator off line in response the criticism.
It will be interesting to see how AI affects our understanding of history. The technology makes it extremely easy to create compelling images. It is difficult to create accurate images of history. It is possible for AI to intentionally create misleading images.
Of course, since history is so complex, no-one has a truly accurate image of history in their mind.
This brings me to my original design for the day.
My Original Idea For Today
Night Cafe presents daily challenges. Today's challenge was to create a "Scene with scenes."
I wanted to create an image of a person comtemplating a reflection of himself. I envisioned a person standing in a corrupted and harsh reality while the reflection showed an idealized reality.
The image was not that incredibly difficult. I ended up consuming a dozen of my precious credits but couldn't find a decent starting point for the idea.
I had been thinking about using cubist renditions for posts about history for several months. I typed in one simple line of text and had an image that would be suitable for a blog post.
I intend to create a dozen or so NFTs for the HiveMe.me NFT gallery. I welcome comments on the collection.
This is my NFT gallery. They are penny a piece. Some have sold out. This is a list of all my NightCafe NFT publications
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Vy the way, when you get watermarks like the one in the lower right corner of your AI generated image there is an AI tool to help brush that out.
https://www.aiseesoft.com/watermark-remover-online/#
The free download reduces the output image to 600x600 pixels so you just need to resize it back to the original 1024x1024.
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Since I make no pretense about being the creative force behind the images, I like to leave the watermark.
I occasionally remove the mark when I crop or modify the image.
The watermark might lead people back to my profile. I see that as a plus.
Come to think of it. I almost always drop links to the source of images that I use.
BTW: The thing I find amusing is when people copy images from istockphoto and leave the watermark. Such people advertise to the world that they are simply copy-and-pasting images. The iStock contract allows people to use watermarked images in the design phase. They want you to purchase the rights on publishing.
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Sorry, I wasn't clear. I don't think that is a NightCafe watermark since the other images you've posted don't seem to have that watermark. What I think happened is that the AI model "hallucinated" that watermark.
Here's a discussion about that:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36523852
The DALLE-2 images had a very clear watermark.
I would not be surprised to find that NightCafe was inserting identifying marks in their works.
The person you cited seems to have a poor understanding of copyright and fair use. He said:
A watermark is simply a device for tracking the source of things. It has little to do with copyright. Fair use refers to the use of small sections of a larger work. The quote I showed is fair use.
To resell a work, one needs to have an agreement with the creator.
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This isn't accurately stated. Gemini was happy to make images of white women, as long as they were with black men. Gemini would hardly make images of white men.
Thanks!
You are right. AI loves nubile young women. AI generates female images in spades.
I am not sure why any white women would want to be seen with a white male. Especially women who received a modern education at a progressive university.
The real world is a much different thing than the fevered dreams conjured by the racists at Goolag, Zionists that hate what they cannot own and enslave, and the civil society that grew to become beyond their control and create felicity for the people of that society most powerfully did so in Europe and America. It has taken two world wars and decades of withering the national governments under a constant onslaught of deception and corruption until we have come to this pass today, in which AI demonstrates the malice of it's creators and the prejudices fed into it in the training data it was trained on. Modern universities are notorious cesspits of racist indoctrination today, whose degrees are worthless denigrations rather than recommendations of competence. This is why so many degreed graduates are flipping burgers and washing cars, rather than advancing scientific progress or helming endeavors of beneficent import to society. Women most of all, as the bulk of university students and graduates today, have been harmed in this way, and the delusions that deprecate and degrade their lives are the proof of it.
This is why I homeschooled.
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