Palo Alto, USA, January 9, 2025, Pakinomist
The story leverages Stability AI open models to connect creators and developers, pushing open source AI innovation
The story of the world’s intellectual property blockchain has announced its use of Stability AI’s breakthrough models to usher in a new era of open source AI development, empowering contributors – creators, developers, artists – to capture the value they create by to contribute to the AI ecosystem. Using Stability AI’s technology, Story aims to solve the critical challenge of attributing, tracking and monetizing creative work generated via AI.
The story is focused on addressing the lack of a clear path for creators to monetize their derivative works in the open source ecosystem. Despite the incredible advances in artificial intelligence, proper attribution and monetization of creators’ IP has not kept pace with innovation.
“We are excited to leverage Stability AI’s models to tackle the most pressing challenges we face with the rapid advancement of AI,” said Jason Zhao, co-founder and Chief Protocol Officer at PIP Labs, Story’s first core contributor. “The combination of artificial intelligence and blockchain is not only incredibly powerful, but necessary. Blockchains secure digital property rights in an era of AI-driven creative abundance. By leveraging Stability AI’s technology and Story’s technology, we show how the right incentive structures can secure attribution and empowering creators and driving AI development forward.”
Story and its ecosystem applications will use Stability AI’s leading foundational image models to build AI applications that integrate contribution tracking across the AI development lifecycle to enable fair compensation for all creators involved with a monetary output. Mahojin and ABLO are two Story-based AI applications that leverage Stability AI’s foundational models and Story’s blockchain technology. Mahojin, a search-to-generate AI remixing platform, and ABLO, a collaborative AI platform that allows creators to design physical goods with leading brand IPs, use Stability AI’s models to easily enable users to easily bring their creative vision to life and Story’s technology to enable better provenance and attribution across the AI stack. These two projects demonstrate real-world use cases and illustrate how to unlock new ways for creators to protect their IP and profit from their contributions in a dynamic, shared creative economy.
“Empowering creators is at the heart of everything we do at Stability AI. We’re excited to see our models used in Story’s blockchain technology to ensure proper attribution and reward contributors,” said Scott Trowbridge, Vice President of Stability AI.
Story is committed to exploring different use cases for how AI and blockchain can come together to meet the evolving needs of creators and developers in the age of generative AI. For example, one area of exploration is to register training data as an artist’s unique style or voice as IP with transparent terms of use on Story. Anyone can then train and fine-tune their own model using this IP. If a creator uses this model to generate a monetized output, everyone in this chain of creation wins and benefits together.
By leveraging Stability AI’s ground-breaking models, Story takes an important step towards creating a sustainable and fair internet in the age of AI.
About the story
Story is the world’s IP blockchain, transforming IPs into networks that transcend media and platforms, unleashing global creativity and liquidity. Visit Story’s website to learn more.
About PIP (Programmable IP) Labs:
PIP Labs, an initial core contributor to the Story Network, is backed by investors including a16z crypto, Endeavor and Polychain. PIP Labs was co-founded by a serial entrepreneur with a $440m exit. and Deepmind’s youngest PM with veteran founders with diverse backgrounds in consumer technology, generative AI and Web3 infrastructure.
