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.
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.
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.
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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