The problem Arty: Community-Generated AI Art solves

In 2022, digital art is becoming abundant as new AI models let anybody generate great art with just a few words. The challenge now becomes to discover great art within the quadrillions of instantly prompt-generated jpegs.

Our Arty solves this. Arty lets the community generate art right in Discord - with a brief prompt per piece. Then, the humans vote to collectively discover the one single best art piece of the day, which Arty then mints as NFT.

Every day, the best art piece as NFT, discovered in the Cambrian explosion of jpegs.

Since Arty scales finding great art, we imagine this can help projects to more easily build communities. Like rewarding their community with unique, customized NFTs.

Challenges we ran into

• Automatically generating amazing images. We considered using any StableDiffusion API (because open source would be cool) but we decided to use Midjourney. So we used a bot on Discord for that
• This means we needed a pipeline, from image generation to voting to IPFS to mint. This was the hard part