Creator Royalties #033: Stay Ahead of the Curve in AI Art with Stability AI

September 12, 2023

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🤗 This week's edition of Creator Royalties is about how you can stay ahead of the curve in AI and AI-generated art, with special insights from Motez Bishara, Director of Communications at Stability AI.

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Stay Ahead of the Curve in AI Art with Stability AI

Has it only been one month since our latest article on AI with leading artist Claire Silver? Do you ever feel like it’s impossible to keep up? Us too 😉

Thankfully, we are dedicating a monthly article to help keep you up to date and ahead of the curve on all the latest going-on’s in AI and AI art tools.

This week on the Crypto Cafe with Randi Zuckerberg podcast, we caught up with Motez Bishara, Director of Communications at Stability AI to get his unique insights on the future of AI art and what artists can learn from it.

Let’s dive in!

Free Recommended AI Resources

Before we get into this week’s insights, we want to recommend 3 free AI resources. With new AI products coming to market on a daily basis, these resources are a time-efficient way of ensuring you don’t miss out on the latest discussions and innovations in AI.

  • Stable Digest: a bi-monthly community newsletter published by Stable Foundation. featuring interviews, community spotlights, and exclusive news and updates from across Stability AI.

  • now[ai]: NFT NOW’s new channel dedicated to keeping you up to date on the latest developments in the fast-paced field of AI.

  • AI Tool Report: Learn AI in 5 minutes a day through this daily newsletter.

3 Ways to Stay Ahead of the Curve in AI Art

#1: Use open source to train your own AI model

We want to democratize access to AI and let everyone around the world benefit from it, independent of where they’re from and what their economic situation is. The last thing we want to do is to limit this really important technology to only the biggest companies and biggest economies in the world.

We do that by sharing our code, meaning anyone around the world can download our code into their local drive. If you have the capability, you can then tweak it to your own specifications, and use it for free.

- Motez Bishara

Training your own AI model in art allows you to tap into the cutting-edge of artistic innovation. By understanding and shaping the algorithms that drive creativity, you gain the ability to push the boundaries of artistic expression, staying ahead of the curve and creating art that resonates with the future.

If this feels overwhelming, check out the following tutorial on how to do this on Stable Diffusion.

If you’re looking for inspiration on the possibilities, check out our recent Innovation Laboratory alum - Wildy Martinez - on her recent success of training her own AI model for the first time.

#2: Treat AI as your collaborator

HUG Artist KEZIAI had a unique insight on the role of AI as collaborator in the latest issue of Stable Digest.

There’s a parallel between creating with AI and directing. Working with AI feels like directing in some ways; instead of directing a crew, you’re directing AI. With both there is collaboration.

There’s an art to storytelling whether in a still or moving image, and all elements of the mise-en-scène add up to a layered and nuanced scene.

Story can be told within a frame (looks between characters, action, the way your eye moves around the frame) in the moving frames of a film (time, dialogue, art direction) or in a curated series of stills (order, movement, colour: from one image to another).

I love to play with all the elements of colour, character, emotion, movement, atmosphere, lens, style, wardrobe, composition, concept, novelty and story whether creating with film, photography or AI.

- KEZIAI, AI Artist

As you work with AI as a collaborator, it can provide different outputs and different iterations of things you hadn’t yet thought of. That is one of the nicest things about working with AI models — they can present you out-of-the-box ideas you wouldn’t necessarily have had on your own. That in turn can spur you to think of other avenues and expand your art in unimaginable ways.

#3: Be a first mover

Being the first at a new process can propel people into the limelight and give them a boost. But in the end, it’s the same as for any space, consistency is key.

Always remember that you need to be consistent in the space to make a name for yourself - it will take a lot of time, it will take a lot of networking, and a lot of work outside of just creating your art.

Social media is incredibly important - go on there and become consistently active in the community, engage with artists and buyers while honing your craft.

- Amli, AI Artist and Educator at Stability AI

One of the biggest lessons we find in HUG Artist Amli’s wisdom is something we have heard in prior interviews with Jordan Kantor of Art Blocks and Jack Butcher - consistency, community, and making more art.

Whether you are creating your own Profile on HUG to access our educational resources and Open Calls or joining Stability AI’s Discord to stay up to date, community will always be a key player in helping you go further, stay inspired, and keep ahead of the curve.

Want more inspiration? Follow Amli to get an inside look at her experiments using AI.

Closing Thoughts

One of the key lessons one needs to remind themselves when working at the forefront of innovation is that you are a part of a community. We are in this together.

So, let that be an invitation for you to join this incredible conversation. Become a part of the AI art community, and contribute to how this technology will shape the future.

🎙 On the Crypto Cafe with Randi Zuckerberg podcast, each guest is joined by an emerging artist who will get the opportunity to be mentored by them live.

Want to be in conversation with artists like Krista Kim or Refik Anadol? Submit your interest here.

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Artist Grants and Opportunities

📣 Open Calls have arrived on HUG! Visit thehug.xyz to submit to a variety of Open Call opportunities we are actively sourcing for our artist community.

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  • 🍷 Join the Medici Collection at Shibuya Crossing! Did you catch your news of the week? We are teaming up with patron of the digital arts Cozomo de’ Medici to bring 6 artists and 6 pieces from The Medici Collection to Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo. Learn more and submit here.

  • 🌎 Take your work to the United Nations in Geneva! We are teaming up with the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration (IOM) to highlight migrant stories at the International Dialogue on Migration in Geneva, Switzerland. Learn more and submit here.

  • ☕️ Enter the Crypto Cafe with 4 incredible artists - Krista Kim, POST WOOK, and Refik Anadol! Join Randi on her SiriusXM podcast where she interviews the leading thinkers in arts and technology. Learn more and submit your interest to join our conversations with the following artists:

  • 💰 HUG is offering $500 USD grants to two artists each month in exchange for unminted artwork to raffle off to our community. Learn more and meet all our HUG Visionaries here.

Other Open Calls

  • It’s all about big money and big names in this week’s Open Calls curated by HUG Artist Rebecca Rose. Learn more here.

  • NFT NYC is returning in 2024, and they are looking for artists to be a part of their Community Artist Showcase, which saw over 4,000 artists apply last year. Learn more and submit early here.

This Week’s Art Drops

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Did you know that these are just 8 of 400+ art drops on HUG? Get a full list of this week’s art drops from HUG here.

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