A Ukrainian deeptech startup is launching a charity NFT project to sell artificial intelligence-generated artworks with the twin goal of raising money to support people affected by Russia's war of aggression and also keeping attention focused on the conflict as it approaches its fourth month.
The attack on Snake Island and the Russian 'Moskva' cruiser on fire are just two of the many events depicted in the collection of artificial intelligence-generated artwork. There are more general scenes from the war on show, such as people in subways or the shelling of Ukrainian cities.
The portrait of Zelenskyy is accompanied by a text description of his request that the West send weapons instead of leaving after Russia invaded.
The generative artworks have all been rendered in a heroic oil style.
More of the collection, which will comprise close to 2,000 artworks in total, can be seen on the website.
The team behind the project hails from a game development-focused startup that has most of its staff based in Ukranian. They have used their expertise in machine learning and content generation technologies to create a neural network that will generate art from text descriptions.
Openai's DALL-E transformer language model has been grabbing online attention in recent months as web users have been able to plug in their own text prompt to get almost instant illustrations on-demand.
By the looks of it, the model was trained on imagery from the war in the Ukranian.
There is a dramatic illustration of Ukrainians preparing Molotov cocktails.
The first thing we did was to make the model look like artworks, and we created the whole tech and made a few changes to it. If you just type in some events from Mariupol, neural networks won't do that. Some images may seem familiar because they were in a fine tuning data set.
He says that they looked at different approaches, but that they always make their own technology. Text inputs allow you to type in the artwork. It took a lot of time to make it look like a real work of art.
The style of the artwork evokes a hero look. The history of war propaganda art could be changed by the use of artificial intelligence to automate production of such works.
In order to praise the courage of the people of Ukraine who are doing different things from volunteering to fighting, we cherry- picked the events.
The team generated between 3 and 4x more images in total to narrow the Sirens collection down to a total of 1,991 images that will be put up for sale as NFTs. There will be a starting price for each NFT.
Dobro.ua is a charity that helps children in hospitals during the war and Unchain.fund is a charity that helps Ukrainians in need.
Money raised from the Sirens NFT sales should be transferred to the charities directly, thanks to the integration of thecryptocurrencies into the smart contract. The team says that buyers are helping to rescue children and adults that are suffering from the war in Ukraine.
The first drop of 661 NFT artworks will take place this Friday on Open Sea, followed by two more drops in the coming weeks.
The team decided to sell the war artworks as NFTs because they needed a certain level of expertise among buyers to support the project.
The country'sMinistry of Digital transformation is an official backer of the Sirens Project so will be showcasing the NFTs. There is a link on their website where you can see the NFT collections that they support.
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