Bored Apes have become symbolic of theNFTcraze.
Horrendously ugly and ludicrously pricey, their value derives from artificial scarcity.
Themachine learningexpert has built an app that generates as many Bored Apes as your heart desires.
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Kilcher first scraped the Bored Ape Yacht Club collection of 10,000 images.
He then trained NvidiasStyleGAN2neural networkon the dataset.
The finished system produces Bored Apes that are entirely unique and fungible.
Kilcher admits, however, that the images arent always perfect.
The quality of my system is not very good, there are often visible artifacts, he told TNW.
He adds thatCyril ZakkaandNathan Cooper Joneshave built similar tools that produce better outputs.
The app harnesses OpenAIs CLIP the same model that powersthe DALL-E 2 image generator.
you might try it out for yourself, but youll need a local GPU to trigger the system.
The standard Bored Ape generator, meanwhile, can be used by any simian-lover who visitsHugging FaceorKilchers website.
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Story byThomas Macaulay
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Away from work, he e(show all)Thomas is the managing editor of TNW.
He leads our coverage of European tech and oversees our talented team of writers.
Away from work, he enjoys playing chess (badly) and the guitar (even worse).
