I'm sure you have all heard the saying "beauty is in the eye of the beholder". If you have never heard it, it is basically saying that different people like different things. As humans, we all place value in different things. Cryptocurrency is a perfect example of this. While those tokens may have great value to me, someone else might just see it as "fake Internet money".
Take the NFT craze of last cycle for example. People were snatching up things right and left. Many were just looking for a quick flip, that was the value they saw in the pieces. While others were more intrigued by the art aspect of it. For them, the value laid in what the artist had created. I'll be the first to admit, that latter category was definitely the minority.
AI is a pretty controversial subject these days.
While some see the value in it, others are not really that interested in it.
I get it, AI is a complex concept and construct that many of us seem to be rushing headlong into. I saw a meme the other day that went something like this:
I want AI that will do my dishes and fold my laundry so I can work on my art, not AI that creates art so I can do the dishes and fold my laundry.
It's a good point, but as a former English major in university, I have always argued that words are art too. Stringing the right combination of them together can touch the deepest nerve or emotion of a person. Likewise, finding the perfect combination that can create something that my hands could never hope to accomplish is also in my opinion an art form.
I know many would disagree with me. I respect that. I've had productive discussions with @tarazkp in the past about this. Despite what the world might lead you to believe these days, it's okay to disagree.
Honestly though, this post isn't about whether or not AI art is right or wrong. Instead, the previous paragraphs are my way of introducing you to a new platform I discovered the other day. I'm sure like many of you, I get a copious amount of emails from different crypto projects. In fact, I created a separate email account just so I can keep them away from my main email account.
Some of them are scams, some are legit, some are spam, and other's actually catch my attention.
Fiddl.art is one of the few that got my attention.
Full disclosure, that is a referral link that I shared above
You might recall back in the day I was part of a community called BOID. While I still hold the tokens, and they have since moved chains, I am not as involved as I used to be. The basic idea was BOID leveraged the Folding@Home project to use your computers extra processing power to solve scientific problems like mapping cancer markers, or searching for extraterrestrial life.
Plus, while your computer was doing that, you were also mining the BOID token. Several members of the BOID team are now involved in Fiddl.art.
I kind of buried the lead there, but Fiddl.art is basically a social space where you can create, share, and promote your AI created art. Likewise you can upvote other people's art similar to how you upvote things here on HIVE.
Fiddl uses a currency called Fiddl points that you can purchase and then use to create pieces of "art" or vote and collect other artists pieces.
I had a quick discussion with one of the project leads the other day and I asked if they had plans to allow purchase of Fiddl Points with BOID. While that doesn't seem to be the case, he did mention that they plan on leveraging the BOID crowd sources processing model to supply the computational power required to generate all of the AI art.
I'm actually not sure how much I am going to play around with Fiddl. Although I can string some words together in a decent sentence, spending money to be able to turn my prompts into something visceral doesn't seem like the best use of my money.
On the other hand, I know several folks on HIVE have went all in on the AI art thing and they basically use it every day, so maybe this will appeal to one of them. I have created one piece of art so far. It took about six of my Fiddl Points and I'm honestly not super happy with how it turned out.
I'd definitely fine tune it a bit more if I felt like spending the platforms currency. That being said, I don't think it is an issue with the software they are using to generate the pieces. I think it has more to do with me needing to fine tune my prompt. Of course, each of those fine tunes takes a bit of currency to accomplish.
Fiddl.art is an interesting concept and while I might not use it every day, I can see it being something that others might find some value in.
After all, value is in the eye of the holder right?
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