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# Art generation principles
First, let's understand the basics: the AI receives a picture and some text as an input. The output is a visualization of our text based on the resulting image. This is how it looks in practice:
process of art generation in Starryai
In this example we use Starryai to generate art, but we will use different services and models.
The output of "Initial image + prompt about cat, fox and climate"
The art generation model of #WEAREONE is based on AI, news, trends and auction winner phrases. It is best to start by visualizing the whole process of image generation (we also call it ArtChain, since each image contains data from all previous images):
Off-chain and on-chain processes in Artchain
The step-by-step process of building ArtChain can be described as follows:
1. For the first iteration, we take the secret Zero Genesis image, words from the founders, and trend data to generate Genesis picture #0.
2. Then we take the Genesis picture of the current day and one piece of news, and use them to generate AI picture #1.
3. AI picture #1 and another piece of news are used as the basis for AI picture #2.
4. We repeat this process several times, adding news, trends, and symbolic context, until we get the final picture of the day.
5. The final picture of the day becomes **WAO ART #N** and is minted as an NFT. The previous intermediate pictures are part of the ArtChain process, but they are not minted as NFTs.
6. The collector or auction winner can add a phrase describing the day.
7. The final NFT, the human phrase, and the trends of the day are then used to form the Genesis picture for the next day.
8. The next day starts with that Genesis picture and a new set of daily signals.
👀 *A secret cultural ingredient is added to the Artchain at a random iteration.*
Important notes:
* At the initial stage only the final picture of the day will exist in the form of NFT. Perhaps in future stages we will put the entire image generation process on a blockchain or other decentralized and fault-tolerant data structure.
* We will take macro-region news from aggregators manually, but we will pay attention to the relevance of the data (the number of social interactions, the number of views and other objective metrics).
* At the initial stage, we will use various models of the Starryai and Midjourney for image generation, but in the future we plan to test other models.
At the current stage of technology development, we cannot fully automate the entire process, so human factor is going to be involved in the project. Multiple members of the DAO will participate in the image generation process. Image generation will not depend from just "one admin", which will allow ArtChain to continue working daily. Our goal is to fully automate the entire project so that news selection and image generation processes are decentralized, and all the intermediate stages of generating the final NFT are also available in a publicly accessible and fault-tolerant database (not necessarily a blockchain, but some kind of a decentralized network).
Some WAODAO NFTs may also be created with the participation of real human artists. In these cases, the artwork is not only generated by a machine from data, but also shaped by human hand, taste, emotion, and artistic intention.
This is one of the deepest ideas of WAODAO: **real co-creation between humans and machines**. AI can process signals, transform images, and reveal unexpected visual metaphors. Human artists can add physical presence, intuition, imperfection, and soul. Together, they create artifacts that belong to the early Human + AI era.
Such works may be marked as real artworks: born through human creativity, expanded through AI, and preserved on-chain as part of the WAODAO ArtChain.
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