AI + Crypto Concept

As someone who has been into crypto for a while but has also been big into using AI like Midjourney and StableDiffusion, I thought it would be interesting and valuable to merge them.

With Banano for example, they have Folding@Home which lets you lend computing power to medical research and earn the Banano crypto currency as a reward. This is really cool but google's AI Folding seems like it's going to eliminate the need for it in time. The idea of contributing computing power for a productive purpose like that and getting a reward is still useful though and would be perfect to combine with an AI such as stable diffusion.

The main issue with the AI is that most people's computers dont have a graphics card with enough VRAM for larger images and so they can't generate images at home. With a Folding@Home type system people could lend computing power by generating the images for people who pay a small amount of crypto in return. A small fee per generation is already how some AI companies operate for this purpose, but if we could take it out of a centralized system and allow anyone to provide the service then that would be valuable to everyone and give a crypto utility that helps draw non-crypto people in. If you have a computer with a good graphics card you could do something akin to mining the currency except that no printing of the token is done since there is someone paying for their art to be generated and the computing power isn't wasted.

I'm open to criticisms of this idea or other ideas to tack onto it. I just thought it could spark a useful discussion and perhaps, if someone feels it's a good enough idea to implement, they will.