Artificial intelligence has been used to generate artificial images since the 1950s, when American computer scientist Harold Cohen made artworks using autonomous software programs of his own design. In the 1960s, British artist Peter Blake used a computer to generate patterns for his 1967 work with Eduardo Paolozzi, demoing that computers could be used to create works with acreen-printing machine. In the 1970s, American artist Charles Csuri used a computer to generate drawings of plant forms that were made into silk screens and used in a number of his works. In the 1990s, American artist Michael Brewster used a computer to generate images of women that were used in his paintings. Generative art can be defined as art that is created by means of a system, where the artist uses a set of rules or algorithms to create the work.

This collection of 1/1 supercars comes from the idea of using video game mods of cars that I have spent 100 hours putting together each mod over the years. I do however use AI to help make a stunning, vibrant, and unique collection, using those video game mods I made as a base template. All my car collections in the future will follow this layout. I never thought in my wildest dreams that the 500,000 hours that I have spent in over a decade making mods for one of my all time favorite games could be the basis for NFTs!

Chances are you've already seen the headline (or some variation thereof): "AI won an art contest, and artists are furious" Here's what happened: A Colorado man entered an art competition at the Colorado State Fair Fine Arts Competition in the category of "digital arts/digitally-manipulated photography". The problem, however, was that he produced the image using Midjourney, an online AI program that produces images based on user text input. He entered the piece using the name "Jason M. Allen via Midjourney", thus disclosing the use of the AI and meeting all competition rules. The judges were not initially aware that AI was used, yet later admitted that they still would have awarded Allen the prize even if they had. As the headline above attests, many artists the world over were not pleased with this outcome.

Chances are you've already seen the headline (or some variation thereof): "AI won an art contest, and artists are furious" Here's what happened: A Colorado man entered an art competition at the Colorado State Fair Fine Arts Competition in the category of "digital arts/digitally-manipulated photography".

I obtained a bunch AI generated watercolor textures. Simply by feeding the algorithm with a "seed" or input noise starting image and inputting a text description like "black watercolor texture" or "rainbow watercolor texture" I got some really interesting effects. The resulting images are around 512x512px in size due to the computing power required for generating images like this. But, I used another machine learning / artificial intelligence technique called AI image upscaling to obtain high resolution watercolor images.