![Each work is linked to the [aside] protocol and cannot be traded or sold until public sentiment towards AI reaches the specific interval associated with the NFT. Current public sentiment over AI is visible at: https://aside.distributedgallery.art/drops/0x01.](https://verse.works/image/w3840/static%2Fuploads%2F0x177d2674a047a573a22df34055dbfe61ed09e55a%2F5c6c5dbb-b6e9-467f-8e7c-2459778ca0c6.jpeg@webp)
To bridge the gap between sentiment and anticipation of the future, Obvious and Ivona Tau drew inspiration from the covers of major magazines and a diverse collection of datasets to create fictitious covers produced by their AI models. These covers depict a spectrum of our human relationships with AI in various possible futures. From the worst to the best. Each artwork belongs to an interval of 10 between 0 and 100: 0,10[10,20[...
Thanks to the [aside] protocol all artworks were locked at mint time and are unlocked according to the state of a sentiment gauge, which estimates people’s feelings towards AI by monitoring various hashtags posted on X over the last 7 days that either translate positive or negative feelings towards AI. As soon as the gauge reaches one of these intervals, the associated 10 unique NFTs will automatically be unlocked. Forever.
The status of this gauge is updated hourly and is visible here