{"id":61163,"date":"2022-05-09T12:31:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T09:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=61163"},"modified":"2025-09-05T10:30:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:30:44","slug":"ai-trained-to-generate-bayc-style-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/ai-trained-to-generate-bayc-style-images\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Trained to Generate BAYC-Style Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A machine-learning expert, Yannic Kilcher, has created an application that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ykilcher.com\/apes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u0433\u0435\u043d\u0435\u0440\u0438\u0440\u0443\u0435\u0442<\/a> images in the style of the NFT collection Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1077\" height=\"606\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pm93D8CVlY8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The system is based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN). Kilcher studied the BAYC collection of 10,000 images and trained the NVIDIA StyleGAN2 algorithm on the assembled dataset.<\/p>\n<p>The finished system produces \u201cboring monkeys,\u201d which are completely unique and interchangeable, the developer said.<\/p>\n<p>However Kilcher acknowledged that the images do not always come out perfectly.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe quality of my system is not very good, artifacts are often visible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The developer added that his colleagues Cyril Zakka and <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@nathancooperjones\/these-bored-apes-do-not-exist-6bed2c73f02c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Nathan Cooper Jones<\/a> created similar tools that yield better results.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You&#8217;ve probably heard of exclusive <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NFTs?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NFTs<\/a> like the Bored Ape Yacht Club that sell for thousands of dollars\u2026 I had a bit of free time this week so I trained a small AI model to generate entirely new ones with a bit of help from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PDillis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PDillis<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/karlhabashy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@karlhabashy<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eD2L8rVPwu\">pic.twitter.com\/eD2L8rVPwu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cyril Zakka (@cyrilzakka) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cyrilzakka\/status\/1463944040878071811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 25, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In April, an unknown <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/hacker-breaches-baycs-instagram-account\">breached the Instagram account<\/a> of the Bored Ape Yacht Club project.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, OpenAI <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/openai-updates-dall-e-the-text-to-image-generator\">unveiled the second version of its image generator<\/a> for text descriptions, DALL-E.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog AI news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogAI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ForkLog AI<\/a> \u2014 all the news from the world of AI!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A machine-learning expert Yannic Kilcher created an application that generates images in the style of the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,1356],"class_list":["post-61163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-bored-ape-yacht-club"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61165,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61163\/revisions\/61165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}