I just joined the ChatGPT community.
While I am not looking forward to reading a bunch of AI generated tripe on HIVE. I think there might be some room for AI Generated images as they provide an interesting alternative to stock photos.
The HIVE platform expects that all posts include a unique image.
I often write posts that I fail to publish simply because I cannot find a good image for the post. AI is adept at generating unique images; so the services might be of great use for HIVE authors.
Notably, the The DALL-E project by OpenAI might be of some benefit to MEME hive Community . It is built on the same engine as ChatGPT.
The #meme community struggles on HIVE because memes are all about copying and sharing content. Meme artists seek to create public domain images that are shared on social media. For example, meme artists on Twitter judge success by the number of retweets and copies.
The rapid republication of memes often borders on spam.
Activities that are commonplace on Twitter are considered spam on HIVE.
Meme artist on other platforms tend to ignore trademark and copyright laws. It is common for meme artists to make a meme of a scene from a movie without owning the rights to make a copy.
Look at all of the Bart Simpson memes. I doubt that many of these artists took the time to secure the rights to use the original artwork in their creation from the copyright holders.
To establish HIVE as a professional publishing platform, HIVE must flag and downvote copyright violations.
HIVE is an notoriously tough market for memes.
AI allows meme-artists a mechanism for creating a base for memes without blatant copyright infringement.
AI will create art works from simple descriptive sentences.
I joined DALL-E this morning and bought 115 credits for $15. I am likely to use images on HIVE posts. I will display the images I create on my personal site.
I average about $0.40 per post on SteemIt and HIVE. So it will be interesting to see if I can make my $15 back.
The first image I created show some bees creating coins from honey. My prompt was "bees taking coins from a hive."
I thought that this might be a good example of using AI to create a meme. It might also be suitable for posts about the HIVE-Engine BEE token.
The AI does not really create original art work.
The AI has access to a base of several million images with captions. The AI uses the ChatGPT language model to assess the images. It will then create an image based on its extensive library.
AI images are in a grey copyright zone.
Apparently it uses images that were marked as released with the creative commons license. Unfortunately there is a history of people republishing images with the creative commons license that they did not have the rights to publish.
Things are even worse when it comes to model release forms. A large number of photographers publish images on the web without receiving a model release form from the subject of the image.
For example, you might ask DALL-E to provide a picture of an "unhinged talk show host ordering a pizza."
The AI might then create an image based upon an actual talk show host that it thought was in the "creative commons." The narcissistic talk show host in question does not allow unlicensed photographs and sues the world every time his likeness shows up on the web.
Creating an AI based meme about an unhinged talk show host might end up in a real life lawsuit with an unhinged talk show host.
Anyway, i created my first AI image. I might use the images in HIVE posts. It think it is appropriate to use AI generated images just so long as the image is not the primary focus of the post.
It will be interesting to see if the images earn more than the cost of the credits.
I tried this same experiment by using images from a stock photo site. My average post reward at the time was $0.02 and the experiment failed.
