THE CROWDFUND
MODEL-WIP is a community experiment to fund the creation of artist-owned AI models. It started with a simple question, how can artist’s own, define, and monetize their likeness in the age of AI? To understand this, artists and members of institutions from TITLES, Base, Zora, FWB, HyperSub, and more came together to pool together $30,000 to explore this idea. More specifically, to partner with a select commissioned artist to produce a body of work, train an image generation model on that work, and monetize the model by making it freely usable within TITLES — a new way for artists to own and monetize their own custom AI models.
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WHY CROWDFUND A MODEL?
Inspired by early experiments like Holly+, this project is an experiment in collective ownership of a new form of IP. The goal is to leverage this new asset class to fund creativity, form new means of collective income, and have fun with a community of like-minded creatives. We’re excited to explore emergent questions within the intersection of AI + crypto such as:
- How does shared ownership and reference drive proliferation of creativity?
- How valuable is distributed ownership of generative models? Is this a repeatable model?
- Can generative models become a new form of crypto based capital aggregation outside of auctions (e.g. Nouns) and donations?
WHAT IS TITLES?
TITLES builds creative tools powered by artist-trained AI models. We help artists and IP holders maintain ownership and monetize their artistic likeness. Our tooling makes it easy for artists to create their own custom AI models that replicate their style. Artists can then share them where they maintain attribution and make money when they’re used. TITLES uses crypto infrastructure to uniquely provide artists durable attribution and automatically split earnings whenever their model generates income from work produced using it. You can try TITLES, here.
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EXAMPLE — ZORA MODEL
On Tuesday, September 12th, TITLES and Zora partnered to train a custom Zorb image generation model and made it available inside of TITLES. Since launch, the Zorb model has produced over 1.5 ETH in mint sales earning .8 ETH in total for Zora. A clear example how custom models can produce creative value in TITLES.
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TIMELINE
- Raise 8 ETH — Starting Wednesday — November 1st, 2023 ✅
- Propose, vote, and hire an artist for comissioning:
- Image creation + reveal:
- Training and model implementation within TITLES:
- Run competition for “best creative using model”:
Anyone can contribute to the crowdfund on Fabric and become an co-owner of the model. The raise amount will be capped at 8 ETH and if we raise over initial target amount, the group will collectively decide how to allocate the oversubscribed amount of capital. The crowdfund will happen over 4 weeks.
Once the capital has been raised, artist proposals for commissions will be voted on over a 1 week period. The top three artists selected will be contacted for the opportunity and selected if available based on votes.
This time period will allow the artist to create their commissioned works, prepared for training, and revealed to the ownership. Although dependent on artist process, this should take no longer than one month.
The team at TITLES will handle the training of the model, where it will be available to anyone to create and publish new creative works within the TITLES app.
Following the completion and implementation of the model, we’ll run a competition for best new creative works.The winner will be decided by using # of mints as the voting mechanism. The winner will be rewarded with 25% of the total crowdfund 1 ETH.
HOW WILL THE CROWDFUND WORK?
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FAQ
How does the use of the model fund the collective?
- Anytime the model is used in a published asset it receives a portion of the mint fees from that contract.
How is Fabric and TITLES involved?
- Use Fabric for onchain crowdfunding.
- Use TITLES for creative tooling and contract publishing.
Where will the funds be held and controlled?
- We’ll hold funds in a Safe multi-sig.
What does my contribution get me?
- If you contribute over .015 ETH, you’ll receive voting share and access to the contributors group chat.
Why commission an artist?
- Simple, train the model on a fresh and unique set of data while funding creativity. We can also use the commissioned assets to drop as it’s own collection to further fund the collective.
What kinds of artists could be commissioned?
- This will be up to the community to decide.
How will we propose and vote on artists + styles?
- We can have the commissioned artist come up with a variety of creative directions where we collectively vote on those to decide.
Can I try TITLES?
- You can download TITLES, here.