NeutronField

Concept

Prompts are becoming a powerful new way of programming AI models like DALL-E, Midjourney, Disco Diffusion, Stable Diffusion, and others.

However, it’s hard to create high-quality prompts. If you’re good at prompt engineering, there’s also no clear way to make money from your skills. NeutronField is a marketplace for buying and selling quality prompts that produce the best results and save you costs.

How it all started

It all started with DeepDream in 2015. It was the ugly first version of the AI image generator created by Google engineer Alexander Mordvintsev. It uses a convolutional neural network to find and enhance image patterns via algorithmic pareidolia.

In mid-2021, the online art scene exploded with the invention of a fantastic text-to-image art generation method known as VQGAN (Vector Quantized Generative Adversarial Network)+CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining). People worldwide jumped on this fast-moving train, experimenting with their text prompts and creating new fantastic worlds using only textual descriptions. Soon we realized that finding the right combination of words to get your intended output is the real challenge.

NeutronField.com was born!

What are "prompts"?

A prompt is a short set of keywords combined so that an AI text-to-image generator can understand what kind of image you want to make.

Why a marketplace?

Nailing the exact prompt is hard.

It is hard to nail down word combinations to get your envisioned image. Every 10th image is a success; everything else is just an experiment to get that one image right.

This is a place for prompt artists who are experimenting with the right combination of words to create AI-generated images. These artists are spending a lot of money experimenting with AI models, which is why we now need a marketplace where we can share the results so others can join this art movement without a need to learn everything from scratch.

AI art is here to stay. An artistic community should embrace it as a new tool. Yes, it’ll take some time until the whole process and technology is perfected so it can be easily manipulated and used, but there is no harm in starting early.

Building Trust

NeutronField will never store any prompts on its servers. The exchange of prompt text can only happen between users in the environment that NeutronField provides. NeutronField is just a portal where users can interact between themselves, sharing syntax as a valuable commodity.

Process

I was impressed by the work of other syntax designers. I wanted to do the same thing as they did, but no one was eager to share their prompts. This is where I realized that ownership of the prompt is a thing and that people have been spending a lot of time working on theirs and refining their inputs. Why would they share it? They have been paying for Midjourney and DALL-E. It is expensive to experiment with the prompts since they require a lot of computer power. This is where it occurred to me that it is essential to create some marketplace where people will share their prompts for money.

Outcomes

In less than a month, the first prompt sale occurred through NeutronField, and new users joined daily. Some came as spectators, but most uploaded their artwork.

I closed NeutronField in 2024, when Midjourney opened its own platform and shared all its prompts there.

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