Most art collectors met AI art through diffusion prompts in 2022.But the first machines to hallucinate faces were GANs—rough, low-res, and beautifully wrong. SUBHUMAN is a time-capsule of that era.

manic distopia – crypto artist & AI tinkerer

| Year | Milestone | Key Links |

| 2014 | Goodfellow publishes Generative Adversarial Networks | arXiv 1406.2661 • goodfeli/adversarial |

| 2016 | DCGAN synthesises 128 px faces | soumith/dcgan.torch • pytorch/examples/dcgan |

| 2017–18 | NVIDIA’s Progressive-Growing GAN reaches 1024 px | tkarras/progressive_growing_of_gans |

| 2019 | StyleGAN → ThisPersonDoesNotExist | NVlabs/stylegan2 |

Dataset base: CelebA & CelebA-HQ (link)

Process:

1. Forked soumith/dcgan.torch → ported to PyTorch.

2. Kept resolution capped at 256 px to preserve “early GAN” artifacts.

3. Auto-fabricated metadata (age, job, blood type) via simple Markov chains.

Parameter | Value |

Epochs | 120 |

Batch size | 128 |

Latent-dim z | 100 |

Learning rate | 2 × 10⁻⁴ |

Optimizer | Adam (β₁ = 0.5) |

Resolution cap | 256 × 256 |

Hardware 2 × RTX 3080, PyTorch 1.9 Dataset cleaning Removed extreme occlusions & non-faces (≈ 8 % of CelebA) via OpenCV Haar cascade.

*Goal: Replicate the 2016 processes—no style vectors, no modern “fix-ups.”

Contract:

0x96c24cb568dbb89206E9f73B5D208aC744C7f76B

Deplytx:

0xde5f2b89ab6b5df43a6c597ba5a43fd9f0e2414dcdbc9af0254d7bb88cdc6d98

First free-mint tx: 0xaa61508f5e673723b265481a250f3e6607e396fa654a32e0229876be3cef4935

• Supply: 10 000 (first 2 500 free) then .01ETH

• Collection: SUBHUMAN – 100 % synthetic identities.

• Sample token metadata:

  {
    "name": "Subhuman #0104",
    "description": "GAN‑generated identity with auto‑forged traits.",
    "image": "ipfs://QmYOURHASH/0104.png",
    "attributes": [
      { "trait_type": "State Full",      "value": "Ohio" },
      { "trait_type": "Country",         "value": "United States" },
      { "trait_type": "Age",             "value": "29" },
      { "trait_type": "Tropical Zodiac", "value": "Pisces" },
      { "trait_type": "Occupation",      "value": "Administrative supervisor" },
      { "trait_type": "Company",         "value": "Rink's" },
      { "trait_type": "Blood Type",      "value": "B+" },
      { "trait_type": "Vehicle Year",    "value": "2008" },
      { "trait_type": "Vehicle Make",    "value": "Volkswagen" }
    ]
  }
  

March 2022 Collection flagged “suspicious”

March 2022 – July 2025 Not indexed / search-hiddenSupport ticket

2025 collector @FrauShitcoinz escalates E-mail thread and chat to opensea and was resisted / Indexed **Jul 21st 2025
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Listing restored OpenSea link

No new drops, airdrops, or tokenomics. SUBHUMAN stays frozen as a historical artefact. Future work will explore early-style GANs on non-human datasets—watch this space, not this contract.

1. Provenance – snapshot of GAN art before prompt engineering.

2. Archaeology – proof of how networks learned to fake faces.

3. On-chain Permanence – marketplaces can delist or die, but the tokens (and their IPFS hashes) stay immutable on Ethereum.

1. Visit https://manic.art

2. Enter the terminal interface (black‑screen CLI).

3. Type mint 22 and hit ⏎.

4. Connect your wallet when prompted (Ethereum mainnet).

5. Claim any of the four low‑gas mint slots still tied to the original 2022 contract.

SUBHUMAN is deployed on ERC‑721A, an optimized standard that batches mints in a single state change.Result: you pay only a few gwei—usually under $2 at normal network conditions.

Once the four 2022 slots are gone, remaining supply is only on secondary markets.

manic distopia✉︎ Twitter / Farcaster: @manicDistopia /@manic

website: https://manic.art

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