In the Before

Back in the days of Steem the website that shall not be named, the silver gold stackers community released three silver rounds. The idea was the brainchild of @sevinwilson, and the process began with a design competition. Multiple steemians would submit their own original artwork that they believed captured the community spirit of our blockchain. After multiple rounds of heated voting, the winning design each year was minted into a 1 oz .999 silver round.

Here are the rounds from 2017-2019.

^{2017 design by @bearone, 2018 design by @welshstacker}

^{2019 design by @edxserverus}

In 2019 I also submitted a design.

My design was OK, but I didn’t have the talent or computer know how to make it look like an actual coin. At the start this put my design at a disadvantage since it was harder to imagine the final product. Fortunately for me, @edexserverus “pimped” my design, and thanks to his help I achieved a second place finish.

But what if there was AI?

I recently received an advertising email from the company Bold Precious Metals. The email featured a new coin from the country of Chad. The coin design was created with Artificial Intelligence!

^{” The 2023 Silver 1 oz Chad AI Artificial Intelligence BU Coin is not just a numismatic masterpiece; it is a tangible representation of the transformative power of AI. As AI continues to shape our world, this coin serves as a testament to the profound impact it has on every aspect of human existence.” Source: Photo and Quote}

Let’s Do This!

I have a Midjourney account. If you are not aware, Midjourney in a generative “art” tool. When it first gained popularity, you could enter prompts via a discord sever and the discord would create an image based on your words.

Here are a couple of images I “created” by entering prompts:

But Midjourney has a funky new feature known as “describe”. When you enter the /describe command you are prompted to upload a photo. Then midjourney spits out four descriptions of said photo. You can then use those descriptions to make new images!

Time to A.I. some silver rounds!

Utilizing the describe command, I uploaded my silver round design. Midjourney then provided these CRAZY prompts about my image.

I then used these “prompts” to “imagine” new images! Here are the results!

From here you can select your favorite images to upscale for increased detail. More results coming up.

Imagine minting or own coins/rounds with this kind of detail!

Next I decided to upload the winning steem round images.

Inspired by @bearone’s design.

Inspired by @welshstackers design.

Inspired by @edexserverus’s design.

Ha! Ha! Ha! They are all soooo weird! And I LOVE them!

Anyway, Midjourney is a bit of a fun time suck. Right now the images are quite random and don’t require any skill from the person responsible for their creation. I think as people gain more control over the output of the tool… it will help folks with great imaginations materialize images despite lacking the technical capability.

Then one day we can all make rounds that look like this!

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Most images in this post are screenshots of “artwork” created by the Midjourney artificial intelligence bot. The coin from Chad photo was created from images in advertising material from the company Bold Precious Metals. Steem round photos originally appeared in Steemit posts promoting the Steem Silver Round.

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