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by kranke155 1639 days ago
NFTs have been a revolution for digital artists. I can’t tire of saying this here. Look at Hic Et Nunc or even better FXhash on Tezos (a low carbon chain).

FXhash has created a generative art market like it’s never existed before, it’s created an amazing art scene without precedent I’ve ever seen. It also allows for generative art to interact with the blockchain to make every art piece unique.

IE if you mint on FXhash, each generative art piece is slightly different due to a randomising function in the art pieces. This means each and every NFT is unique since they all went through a slightly different values for some of their features. I highly recommend anyone criticising NFTs to think about this since it’s an absolutely groundbreaking achievement in digital art that just wasn’t possible before. The artists scene around FXhash is just incredible.
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Gigachad 1639 days ago
So I looked up FXhash and from what I gathered, people write a function to generate an image, and then it gets run with some random inputs so you get a bunch of similar but slightly different images out.

To call this an “absolutely groundbreaking achievement in digital art that just wasn’t possible before.” is comically absurd.

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kranke155 1639 days ago
Sure, then show me an open market where this was being done before at scale ?
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Gigachad 1639 days ago
Why does it have to be a market. Why does everything have to be about turning a profit. If you want computer generated art, I could show a billion examples. I could write my own function to generate a picture with no crypto technology.

If your argument boils down to “show me how people made lots of money on it”, then that is just confirming what I already believe. No substance, just profiting on hype.

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kranke155 1639 days ago
Sure thing Gigachad. Those darn artists are just making too much damn money! They should all live off the socialist UBI we’re so close to implementing right? Or maybe they should just live in poverty and not complain so much?

Just all these darn artists making money! How many artists salaries have you paid off this month with your salary Gigachad?

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