Getting Bored Apes. For Free.

Do you know what the Bored Ape Yacht Club is? If not check out this article on decrypt.co:

What is Bored Ape Yacht Club? The Celebrity NFT of Choice - Decrypt

“Bored Ape Yacht Club is a popular series of NFT profile pictures minted on the Ethereum blockchain. They typically sell for many thousands of dollars, with a growing number of high-profile celebrities buying the NFTs.”

— Decrypt.com

It is a kind of wild speculation: fun to watch, but crazy & probably pretty unhealthy.

What an historic moment for the club: the @Sothebys auction of 101 Bored Apes has closed at over $24m. Congratulations and THANK YOU to the whole ape community. To the buyer, I think we speak for everybody when we say: WELCOME TO THE CLUB. ☠️🦍⛵️ pic.twitter.com/NKxHekC0ny

— Bored Ape Yacht Club (@BoredApeYC) September 9, 2021

But help is on the way: if you don’t want to spend millions of Dollars for an original, AI-generated picture of a bored ape. Just get one for free - from this guys’ AI… 😎

These Bored Apes Do Not Exist

If you want to know where those Bored Apes are coming from, check out this enlighting post on Medium.com:

These Bored Apes Do Not Exist

TL;DR — I complain about NFTs, then attempt to train both a GAN and super-resolution model to generate Bored Apes that do not exist. You can check out all the generated images on thisboredapedoesnotexist.nathancooperjones.com.