Introduction

The Observable Universe is finite, and it hasn’t existed forever. It extends 46 billion light years in every direction from us. However, when telescopes fail our imagination can take us to infinity and beyond. A revolutionary new type of camera was recently invented. Instead of turning light into pictures, it turns ideas into pictures using AI. This new kind of camera replicates what your imagination does. It receives words and then synthesizes a picture from its experience of seeing millions of other pictures. the result is a synthograph (meaning synthetic drawing). With these synthographs we can explore the Infinite Universe.

The Infinite Universe Alliance is a collection of 10,000 unique Captains(and Gods!) that inhabit the Infinite Universe. The collection was created using a structured prompt with distinct elements that determine the NFT’s attributes. We have spent over 400 hours of computing time and picked each output individually to imagine impossible and unique Superheroes, Supervillains, and Gods that create a rich internal narrative that you can build on as you please.

We hope that this sets the stage for the community to collectively create a galaxy of stories in which these entities strive for survival, control, and expansion throughout the Infinite Universe

How we did it

In order to create a cohesive collection, we designed a structured prompt. Each part of the prompt is turned into a trait in the collection. In the table below we show some examples of how the prompts are structured.

We started by determining whether it’s a Captain or a God, then we chose their defining characteristics and the subject modifier. The subject modifiers were discovered in the process of generating thousands of variations. Examples of modifiers are robot, samurai, and zombie. These keywords act as a filter for the AI which creates a specific look that we can mix with the other portions of the prompt.

To maintain consistency, we divided all captains into either Superheroes or Supervillains. Finally, we used the standard alignment chart made popular in tabletop RPG games to create a variety of unique outputs for each prompt. The result is a collection of 10,000 completely unique characters that share a consistent set of traits through which many different power levels themes and styles are represented.

Built-in Provenance

A side effect of synthography is that every output contains a hash that corresponds to the Midjourney job ID that created it. This will also be encoded as an extra trait that will allow users to verify the provenance of the NFT down to the timestamp when it was created. The collection was generated over 10 days of nonstop spamming prompts between a few synthers that jammed off of each other ideas to create all the variety that we now present. Someone could determine who came up with the original zombie (Doug09 did) and then you can see them appear across the collection and become one of the features of the middle part of the generation. As more people joined in new concepts are included which are then explored by the group. Overall creating this collection has been an incredible experience in imagination, collaboration, and creative expression.

This is NOT a Metaverse. It’s an Infinite Universe

The NFT market is filled with projects selling you their “Metaverse”. However, we believe that they’re all wrong. A metaverse is a collection of universes you can traverse. We already live in the metaverse. It’s made out of our base reality plus the Star Wars Universe, the Marvel Universe, the Bored Ape YC universe, and so on. Maybe they don’t know it, but they’re all building their own Universe, which is a PART of THE Metaverse.

The purpose of the NFT collection is to establish a base cannon where all of the entities we created exist within the same Infinite Universe. That means that owning an NFT of this collection gives you the ability to tell a part of the story of the AI-U yourself. With synthography you can create an infinity of worlds, challenges, and adventures for your character to explore. Collectively the sum of these stories will create the most awesome adventure ever told.

Webpage: https://ai-universe.io