Story, the global intellectual property (IP) blockchain, announced that it is using Stability AI’s cutting-edge models to usher in a new era of open source artificial intelligence (AI) development — where contributors (creators, developers, artists) will be able to capture the value created by their contributions to the AI ecosystem. With Stability AI’s technology, Story aims to solve the key challenges of proper attribution, tracking, and monetization of creative works generated by AI.
Story is focused on solving the problem of creators lacking a clear path to monetize their derivative works in the open source ecosystem. Despite the amazing development of AI, the proper attribution and monetization of creator IP has not kept pace with innovation.
"We are excited to leverage Stability AI's models to tackle the most pressing challenges brought about by the rapid rise of AI," said Jason Zhao, initial core contributor of Story, co-founder, and chief protocol officer of PIP Labs. "The combination of AI and blockchain is powerful and essential. In the era of an AI-driven creative explosion, blockchain can protect digital property rights. By utilizing the technologies of both Stability AI and Story, we demonstrate how to ensure proper attribution and empower creators through appropriate incentive structures, driving the development of AI."
Story and its ecological applications will use Stability AI's leading foundational image models to build AI applications, embedding tracking of contributions throughout the entire AI development cycle, thereby providing fair compensation to all creators involved in monetizing outputs.
Mahojin and ABLO are two AI applications built on Story that leverage Stability AI's foundational models and Story's blockchain technology. Mahojin is a mixed platform for search and generation, while ABLO is a collaborative AI platform that allows creators to design physical products using leading brand IP. Mahojin and ABLO utilize Stability AI's models to help users easily turn their creative visions into reality and use Story's technology to achieve better provenance and attribution throughout the AI stack. These two projects demonstrate real-world use cases and illustrate how to open up new ways for creators to protect their IP and profit from contributions in a dynamic, shared creative economy.
By tracking contributions, artists and other creators can receive compensation more fairly, quickly, and easily. This also means that the works of these artists, creators, and developers can be used more widely.
Stability AI is the developer of the Stable Diffusion model, which has been used by over 5 million people to generate images and media with this generative AI model. Stability AI focuses on open-source models and has expanded into generative fields such as video and audio.
"Empowering creators is at the core of everything we do at Stability AI. We are excited to see our models being used with Story's blockchain technology to ensure proper attribution and reward contributors," said Scott Trowbridge, Vice President of Stability AI, in a statement. He noted that the decentralized model of the creator economy will become increasingly important.
Story is committed to exploring different use cases for the combination of AI and blockchain to meet the evolving needs of creators and developers in the generative AI era. For example, one area of exploration is registering training data such as an artist's unique style or voice on Story as IP with transparent usage terms.
Anyone can use these IPs to train and fine-tune their own models. If creators generate profitable outputs using the model, then everyone in the creative chain will benefit together.
By utilizing Stability AI's cutting-edge models, Story is taking a critical step towards creating a sustainable and equitable network in the age of AI.
About Story
Story is a global intellectual property blockchain that unlocks global creativity and liquidity by converting IP into a network that spans across media and platforms. Visit the official website for more information.
About PIP Labs
PIP Labs is the initial core contributor of the Story network, supported by investors such as a16z crypto, Endeavor, and Polychain. PIP Labs was co-founded by a serial entrepreneur with a $440 million exit record and the youngest product manager at Deepmind, with a founding team that has extensive experience in consumer technology, generative AI, and Web3 infrastructure.