How to make NFTs and web3 mainstream?
I've been building mainstream content brands for 20 years. I have some ideas on how we get the next 100M.
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Gee folks can be nice around here☺️ doing something you love and having others let you know they connect with it is kinda I think the point of it all…so yeah big thanks 🙏
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GM artist spotlight!
Ranging from the cute to the absurd, @Turtle___Hermit uses their skills as a filmmaker to create unique and wildly engaging images with Midjourney.
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Fascinating that Meta and Google have been keeping their AIs locked in the basement moderating content.
OpenAI set it free. Now millions are coming up cool use cases daily.
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To be clear: I'm not criticizing OpenAI's work nor their claims.
I'm trying to correct a *perception* by the public & the media who see chatGPT as this incredibly new, innovative, & unique technological breakthrough that is far ahead of everyone else.
It's just not.
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The headline is a diss, but the article is actually an interesting history of the decades of research it took before chatGPT could come to life.
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Am I the only one that thinks asking chatGPT to write my emails requires an explanation as long as writing the email in the fist place?
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ChatGPT famously can’t do math. Combine it with Wolfram Alpha. Problem solved.
The student who invented a program to detect text written by chatGPT… course used chatGPT to do it.
Which makes me think the next student will ask GPT to write a program that can’t be detected by GPT.
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Flawless engagement photo thanks to #StableDiffusion Inpainting 
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Are we seeing a pattern with AI bragging about how much they spend on super computers, silent on how little they spend on super humans.
AI artists and talk digital culture, including the new Time piece that blows up how AI is being trained with Kenyan workers at horrible wages.
"We can't be culty about what we're doing here."
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I think the question is slightly more nuanced.
The computer is only acting on behalf of the human asking it to create something.
So back to square one. If Warhol can fair use soup cans. Could Warhol using software do the same?
If not, why not?
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I think that’s what they are trying to define. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Warhol last year,making a statement in large support of broad fair use. But does that include a software? Transformation is based on intention…the AI artist might have that, but does a software co
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This looks seriously fun.
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Imagine an interactive, 3D social platform…where you can create, share, and enjoy immersive experiences/art with your friends in real time.
Welcome to a glimpse of
Spatial.io in 2023, accessible across Web, VR, AR, and mobile 
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AI techniques are going to get blended into all kinds of creative work flows.
In this case, photo perfect 3D models are created from a regular video camera and a simple walk around.
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The first NeRF in a TV commercial!
It starts with a scene of a younger version of me, and then transitions to present-day me
Directed by @nortondirector using @LumaLabsAI for @McDonalds
*at least, it's the first commercial that I know using NeRF, if you know of another lmk :)
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Exciting! AI can lip read.
Imagine the possibilities for the hearing impaired, especially those with recent impairment, if we can speed this up to real time processing.
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This lip reading demo (from any youtube video) is really cool 
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People have said chatGPT is the death of homework. But might also be the birth of a new way to teach.
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Paid $10 transaction fee for a free piece of art today.
Can you imagine what the net would look like if you had to pay $10 to send an email or transfer a file?
Ethereum is a decentralized miracle but it’s Gucci prices for things that are cheap or free everywhere else.
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Beautiful and serene. Picked up an open edition today.
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We’re having an important debate in AI art about whether it’s good, evil or both.
But I wonder what young artists will create who grow up in a world where this is as standard as a paint brush.
There are many amazing things about this article but none more so than the Icelandic name of the story’s location.
Hafnarfjarðarkaupstaður
Really thoughtful concept. Can’t wait to see the art.
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AI Art Contest 3
Prize:
1st: 3ETH
2nd: 1.5ETH
3rd: 1 ETH
4th/5th: .5 each
& gallery exhibition.
Rules: Max 2 entries. Post here. Ends 1/28/23.
Theme: “Rebuttal:” make a piece that responds to an argument against AI art with beauty, skill, or message. Don’t be hateful.
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Just minted five mystery pieces. Excited for the reveal.
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'Code x AI' is live now on @foundation!
72 pieces : 0.02eth
link in the first comment
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Interesting point I hadn’t considered. Some collectors view unaltered AI art as pure.
Frankly it’s an odd idea to me since I think the artistry comes from making something truly original which often involves multiple AI tools, many prompts, custom training models etc.
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An interesting point arose during the Space: while most ai artists I know use post-edits in part because of the fear that people might value their art less if it were raw ai art, collectors seem to believe on the contrary that raw ai art is actually way more valuable.
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Just subscribed to via Twitter subscriptions.
Honestly have no idea what I’m going to get for my $3 (Rob you better deliver me 300 cents worth of amazing content) but interested to see how creator subs work on Twitter.
Could be a powerful feature.
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Ethereum has miles to go before mainstream.
For the second day in a row, I paid $20 in gas for a $130 purchase. That’s a 15% transaction fee.
I know we think banks twiddle their evil mustaches all day but they would love to be able to charge those rates.
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There’s something beautiful and haunting in this edition I just picked up from
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My first Open edition 
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My guardian deer of the forest
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This is ridiculously good and still early. Imagine this 12 or 24 months from now.
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Have you ever heard an AI-generated voice deliver real emotion in their performance? Every emotion in this clip is naturally generated by our platform.
Want to see more of our voices and how they would perform in your projects?
#ai #voiceai #voiceover #voicetech #voicecloning
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Smart analysis. 2023 will be AI crowded.
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1/ AI exploded on the scene at the end of 2022, with applications like @OpenAI's ChatGPT taking the world by storm.
2023 is poised to be the most exciting year of AI yet!
Here's mine and @vivek7ue's look at the lay of the land + what might happen next...
Here's mine and @vivek7ue's look at the lay of the land + what might happen next...
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The NYT discovers weather maps!!
Half Joking: As a Weather Channel alum I’m a bit biased, but happy to see more smart minds working to explain weather to consumers.
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There is such a startling difference in public understanding between web3 and AI.
Blockchain takes a 30 minute conversation and still leaves people confused.
AI is instantly understood magic.
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Picked up some wild art today from one of my favorite AI artists who I have been begging to make some NFTs.
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Clippy sucked. ClippyGPT is gonna be fire.
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There's some poetic justice in knowing that the original tech meme is poised for making the most uncanny of all comebacks... as the most powerful assistant known to mankind. @Microsoft 
@OpenAI
#GPT4
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#GPT4
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-- One click to move assets from self custody to a protected custodial vault
-- Automatically setup recommended multi-wallet security (one wallet for transactions, another for vaulting, another for POAP) and know which one to use.
-- Appraise my NFTs
What features do you crave?
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