I have drawn over 100,000 robot images, and my Twitter avatar is full of these pictures. This AI painting competition is becoming very popular.

I've drawn over 100,000 robot images and my Twitter avatar is full of them. This AI painting contest is getting popular.

Author: Wang Jiajian

If you were asked to create something based on the picture below, what would you come up with?

Well, let’s take a look at some other people’s imaginations. For example, here’s Spider-Man from the movie “Into the Spider-Verse”.

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How about a 2D anime girl?

Or a warrior gorilla?

What about these, do they look like Mos from “The Wandering Earth 2”?

Okay, let’s just go with “group pictures”.

Image: “AI Robot Avatar NFT Creation Contest” entry works. Are these all the late-night creations of illustrators working tirelessly? No, these are all works created by novice users with the help of AI.

300 creative and beautiful robot avatar images out of over 100,000 entries in the contest

At the beginning of May, the Web3 leading enterprise Oeasy NFT market launched an event called “AI Robot Avatar NFT Creation Contest”. Using the AI drawing tool provided by the platform, users can create their own unique PFP avatar art by using the given robot image as a base, modifying the input prompts, switching artistic styles, and changing the weight of reference images. By the end of the event, users had generated over 100,000 images in total. The event caused a sensation on Twitter, with many participants changing their social media profile pictures to their own generated images. The results were unique and explosive.

Finally, the organizers selected 300 excellent works from a large number of images and produced an NFT collection. The selection process was exhausting for the organizers. Perhaps no one expected that a simple operation activity based on AI painting would directly detonate the “creativity” buried in ordinary people’s hearts. Creating a “unique” social media avatar with AI painting is absolutely the coolest and most “socially valuable” thing today.

Empowering Web3, Achieving Creative Equity, AIGC or a Breakthrough for Brand Marketing

Providing AI painting technology support for this AI painting competition and Ouyi Web3 wallet is Unbounded AI, which has just been selected as one of the “50 most noteworthy AIGC institutions” produced by Quantum Bit Think Tank. In the past few months, Unbounded AI has held more than 30 AI painting competitions of all sizes with many domestic brands and institutions. But for Ben, the cooperation with Ouyi Web3 wallet made him very excited. Ben is the business director of Unbounded AI and followed the cooperation throughout the whole process. In his opinion, this is a landmark and typical case of AIGC empowering Web3.

First of all, the Web3 wallet itself is not a creation platform, but through cooperation with Unbounded AI, it can immediately provide users with the ability of AI painting. “The Web3 industry has always emphasized equality. AIGC combined with Web3 has achieved creative equity, which enables individuals with creativity to realize creation.” In fact, in this event, participating users can directly chain their PFP avatars through the Web3 wallet, and then make them into the most popular NFT digital collections. This means that issuing NFT digital collections is no longer the “right” of artists or institutions, and ordinary people can also have unique works that can “last forever” through this.

Secondly, the successful holding of the “AI Robot Avatar NFT Creation Competition” has allowed more people to see that AI painting is an excellent marketing entry point for brand operators in various operation activities such as users, activities, content, and products. “I think most of the players in the AI Robot Avatar NFT Creation Competition have not been exposed to AI painting before, and they are all marveling at the charm of AIGC. This is just the beginning. AI painting, ChatGPT large language model, I think AIGC can be used in various fields, it will bring more possibilities for brands.” Ben said that this competition is also like a stress test. During the event, the concurrent volume of user drawings was extremely high, and the results showed that Unbounded AI not only met user demand in terms of model quantity, quality, and other dimensions, but also technology and computing power can meet the requirements of large-scale marketing activities.

Will AIGC be the ultimate destination for all content products?

In fact, not only Web3 wallets, but also Unbounded AI has cooperated with many well-known brands such as 3D Home and TAL Education to explore and expand the use cases of AI painting. Which scenarios are particularly suitable for introducing AI painting functions? Aben told Babite that AI painting has great potential in two aspects. First, the most core feature of AI painting is to allow people with no painting skills but bursting with imagination to draw their creative ideas. This means that wherever creation is involved, AI painting has its place. Imagine if a domestic online literature platform opens an AI painting function, allowing users to carry out second creation based on a popular novel. For example, “Tomb Notes”, readers are likely to create a huge amount of image content in a short period of time, which has great operational value and may even give birth to great second creation works. In April, Unbounded AI held the first AI painting video contest. At that time, the organizer received a large number of AI comic works submitted by users, although only a few pages or dozens of pages, but they can tell a complete story in the form of comics. The creative power of users shocked the community members of Unbounded AI. Many users who had played with AI painting for more than half a year said: It’s amazing! I’ve never seen such a thing before!

Picture: AI comic “Fantasy City”, author: Zhuangzao, Tool: Unbounded AI

“AI painting will inevitably bring a new paradigm of C-end user creation. The ability to create and tell stories will be a strong ability, rather than how strong your painting skills are.” Aben said, “Based on painting skills, what kind of business direction can AI painting derive? This is also the question we and our partners are thinking about.” The second potential of AI painting is obviously to reduce costs and increase efficiency, that is, to apply AI painting to the workflow of content creation. This is already very obvious in the field of content creation. Not only creative design companies, but also comics, movies, media, etc. have already or are deploying AI painting on a large scale. We may boldly assume that next, content-based apps will inevitably open up AI painting capabilities. Including Weibo, public accounts, Xiaohongshu, Douyin, Zhihu-AI painting will be a necessary skill for these top APPs. Even some APPs that are not related will also access AI painting capabilities.

If you were given a magic pen, what would you draw with AI painting tools?

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