Since AI-generated images have been a thing, we have yet to hear much good news about people using them. Some use them to make images that violate copyright laws; some use prime systems to make the scariest photos, and some use the power of machine learning to win the top spots at art fairs.
You should check out this Discord game slash event if you want a great way to channel your love for AI-generated art. The Bureau of Multiversal Arbitration may seem daunting, as the title suggests, but this could really be a great place for people who are into the new controversial art form.
Aconite, a game development company run by Nadya Lev and Star St.Germain, developed BMA.
Welcome to the Bureau
The Bureau of Multiversal Arbitration, or BMA, is the name of the made-up workplace and/or the title of the budding Discord game. In the game, participants will act as arbiters for three caseworkers working for unknown clients across the multiverse. It also happens that the three arbiters are a grumpy old woman, a poodle, and a stoic plant. But that is not the only thing that makes the game interesting.
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This is how things operate in this Bureau: the multiverse is in trouble, and you can help save it by completing assignments. The task may be anything from the most delicious food in the world to a photograph of a bug. However, there is a catch: only the best will be chosen. This part requires you to use your imagination.
Now, the work at the Bureau is not very difficult. Phase 1 of the activity, or assignment searching, will begin. A case assignment will be posted by the caseworkers for each participant first. Participants will start using an in-game multiverse search engine in 24 hours to find the best and weirdest results. After that, participants should pick the best image from their search results to send to caseworkers.
Now, the work at the Bureau is not very difficult. Phase 1 of the activity, or assignment searching, will begin. A case assignment will be posted by the caseworkers for each participant first. Participants will start using an in-game multiverse search engine in 24 hours to find the best and weirdest results. After that, participants should pick the best image from their search results to send to caseworkers.
Next, voting and some discussion before the voices of the multiverse decide that a picture of a weird creature with a thousand eyes sitting on a plate is the most delicious meal in the known universe. It is fun. It is weirdly entertaining.
The Multiversal Search Engine is a thoroughly supervised variation of the Stable Diffusion AI image generator. Winners receive the ultimate prize: their winning piece is displayed at the game's virtual refrigerator door.
Who knew you could do something fun with the hallucinatory characteristics of most AI art? BMA is what you get when you cross an AI art generator, a Discord server, and some brilliant minds assigned to curation and storytelling.
Brains Behind the Bureau
The Guardian tells us that the Multiversal Search Engine itself is automated, but St. Germain and her coworkers control the non-player characters who transform a straightforward chatroom into a richly involved experience and make sure the gamers stay focused, and the community remains kind.
"A lot of people are villainising this tech," said St.Germain told Guardian. "And it is scary, it does incredible things: you type in something, and all of a sudden you've got this image from another world."
The Bureau has only been in operation for one month, according to the same report. The game will stop this week since it cannot last forever as a free service that requires actual labor to maintain. The next several days are your last chance to experience it before it returns, albeit it might do so in the future.
Read more about AI art here at Tech Times.
