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TITLESTITLES & Lucky The Golden Goose
How my dad’s 1999 children’s book led to the future of creator-owned AI modelsAs an entrepreneur and someone building in consumer technology, I’m realizing that much of what you bring into the world is rooted in the ideas that were instilled in you as a kid. Each of us is led into the world by our parents who open doors for us with a slight push of encouragement, watching to see how far we walk in. Looking back, it’s clear now that my love for creativity, storytelling, and finance can be attr...
TITLESINTRODUCING TITLES
It’s 2016, I was working on my first startup and traveling around Oregon taking drone photos. I started to see many of my photos pop up across the web without mentioning me. The excitement eroded and in its place came frustration looking for credit, attribution, or pay. Shortly after, I started to learn about a network of media startups like Mediachain, Po.et, and Ujo leveraging Ethereum to build a more equitable media ecosystem. Little did we know that the core of these projects was a simple...
TITLESForked Self: How Mr. Misang’s AI Model Explores a Different Creative Future
Mr. Misang is a Seoul-based illustrator and animator whose work explores the individual's position within the anonymous structures of contemporary life. His densely composed scenes depict crowds, cities, and bureaucratic systems not as backgrounds but as active forces—environments shaped by desire, routine, and infrastructural logic. Forked Self, Mr. Misang’s model with TITLES, is trained on two separate bodies of work—one more recent and one comprising pieces created between 2010 and 20...
TITLESTITLES & Lucky The Golden Goose
How my dad’s 1999 children’s book led to the future of creator-owned AI modelsAs an entrepreneur and someone building in consumer technology, I’m realizing that much of what you bring into the world is rooted in the ideas that were instilled in you as a kid. Each of us is led into the world by our parents who open doors for us with a slight push of encouragement, watching to see how far we walk in. Looking back, it’s clear now that my love for creativity, storytelling, and finance can be attr...
TITLESINTRODUCING TITLES
It’s 2016, I was working on my first startup and traveling around Oregon taking drone photos. I started to see many of my photos pop up across the web without mentioning me. The excitement eroded and in its place came frustration looking for credit, attribution, or pay. Shortly after, I started to learn about a network of media startups like Mediachain, Po.et, and Ujo leveraging Ethereum to build a more equitable media ecosystem. Little did we know that the core of these projects was a simple...
TITLESForked Self: How Mr. Misang’s AI Model Explores a Different Creative Future
Mr. Misang is a Seoul-based illustrator and animator whose work explores the individual's position within the anonymous structures of contemporary life. His densely composed scenes depict crowds, cities, and bureaucratic systems not as backgrounds but as active forces—environments shaped by desire, routine, and infrastructural logic. Forked Self, Mr. Misang’s model with TITLES, is trained on two separate bodies of work—one more recent and one comprising pieces created between 2010 and 20...
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What if a community owned a unique 1-of-1 AI image model? And what if that model made $ for it's owners whenever it was used? What would we make and how would it be used? Introducing a new experiment in collective artificial intelligence ownership we're calling MODEL-WIP.
Just a few weeks ago, my team worked with our friends at Zora to train and create a custom Zorb model. That model was used to create over 60 collections using SOURCE and generated over .8 ETH in earnings back for Zora. It got me thinking...
What if we ran a crowdfund to create and collectively own a unique 1-of-1 image generation model? We're bringing that idea to life and it’s called MODEL-WIP.
Contribute now on Fabric, the easiest way to crowdfund onchain
Crowdfund 8 Zora ETH.
We're crowdfunding using for 8 Zora ETH where anyone can contribute. In exchange for contribution you get access to an exclusive MODEL-WIP owner group and one voting share. Contributions must meet or exceed .03 Zora ETH for a voting share.
Commission an artist to create a body of work.
Once the crowdfund is complete, we'll source, engage, and decide on an artist to commission. That artist will be paid a portion of the crowdfund to create a unique body of work to train the model on.
Train a model on that body of work + make available in SOURCE.
Once the model is complete, we'll make it available via SOURCE where anyone will be able to create and publish new collections using the model. MODEL-WIP will earn protocol fees from use of the model. The fees will be sent to the crowdfund contract where they can be withdrawn by contributors on a pro rata basis!
Make sure to bridge ETH to Zora using either Zora or your wallet like Rainbow. We're capping the crowdfund at 8 ETH so make sure to contribute now before it fills up!
Contribute now on Fabric, the easiest way to crowdfund onchain
Much love,
- TITLES
What if a community owned a unique 1-of-1 AI image model? And what if that model made $ for it's owners whenever it was used? What would we make and how would it be used? Introducing a new experiment in collective artificial intelligence ownership we're calling MODEL-WIP.
Just a few weeks ago, my team worked with our friends at Zora to train and create a custom Zorb model. That model was used to create over 60 collections using SOURCE and generated over .8 ETH in earnings back for Zora. It got me thinking...
What if we ran a crowdfund to create and collectively own a unique 1-of-1 image generation model? We're bringing that idea to life and it’s called MODEL-WIP.
Contribute now on Fabric, the easiest way to crowdfund onchain
Crowdfund 8 Zora ETH.
We're crowdfunding using for 8 Zora ETH where anyone can contribute. In exchange for contribution you get access to an exclusive MODEL-WIP owner group and one voting share. Contributions must meet or exceed .03 Zora ETH for a voting share.
Commission an artist to create a body of work.
Once the crowdfund is complete, we'll source, engage, and decide on an artist to commission. That artist will be paid a portion of the crowdfund to create a unique body of work to train the model on.
Train a model on that body of work + make available in SOURCE.
Once the model is complete, we'll make it available via SOURCE where anyone will be able to create and publish new collections using the model. MODEL-WIP will earn protocol fees from use of the model. The fees will be sent to the crowdfund contract where they can be withdrawn by contributors on a pro rata basis!
Make sure to bridge ETH to Zora using either Zora or your wallet like Rainbow. We're capping the crowdfund at 8 ETH so make sure to contribute now before it fills up!
Contribute now on Fabric, the easiest way to crowdfund onchain
Much love,
- TITLES
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