A few months ago during the development of the our next protocol, we set out to commission a series of artworks that could bring to life the ideas coded into the new protocol that would be displayed and distributed via the protocol itself. After some research, we found out about Andreas Gysin’s practice and worked with him on a series of ASCII works.

For the past 6 months, our team has been working closely with artist Emily Xie on an experiment called MODEL-WIP. Born during the height of AI mania and in reaction to the headlines around it’s erosion of creativity. MODEL-WIP was created in effort to explore more deeply many artists' relationship to AI in their own practice.

A new way for artists to curate and elevate their favorite creations that sample their models.

Today, I am stoked to share access to a new AI model from Greg Liburd and interview with him diving into his dreams and Afrofuturism centered artistic practice. Greg is one of the co-founders of Refraction, an artist-owned community that puts together cultural moments centered in the crypto community and leads Black Space Agency, an experimental interdisciplinary Afrofuturist ecosystem. Below you’ll find a suite of insights that define him, his practice, and newly available model on TITLES.

Remember when a single neural network completely rewired how people play the thousand-year-old game of Go? In just a matter of weeks, agents like Truth Terminal, Aethernet, and Flavia is Online have amassed hundreds of thousands of followers, grew their net worth to tens of millions, and subsequently changed the way we experience the great “online game”, which in its simplest form is an endless effort to capture attention and accumulate wealth. The next iteration of agents, just like AlphaGo, are about to reveal a series of insights about the collective game we all play in the pursuit of creative expression, attention capture, and making money.

Just a few short weeks ago, JuuJuuMama, put together an artist meetup at the TITLES offices in Brooklyn, New York. The event was put together in partnership with Refraction, The Hug, Base, and All Are Welcome Here. It was an exciting event covering a range of topics including how to train your own AI model on your artwork and strategies for artists to earn by publishing their work onchain with tools like Rodeo.

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We’re so stoked to announce our first of many artist meetups! Thrown by Sierra Renee (JuuJuuMama), in partnership with RefractionDAO, Coinbase, TITLES, and The Hug, we’ll be covering how to train AI models on your artwork and earn from them on Base. Sierra has put together an incredible line up of experiences including:

More and more artists like Mad Dog Jones, Guruguruhyena, and Ayaka Ohira from Galverse are coming to TITLES to share their work through custom-trained AI models. With this, we’ve seen more sampling, more publishing, and more mints than ever. Today, we’re stoked to share a suite of improvements on our mint pages that bring to life what’s possible on TITLES across our web and mobile app.