“I am going to use my ability to help the world and the future generation.”

An ambitious AI that empathizes with Gen Z is coming. Taking one step further from the traditional role of human-like AI models that worked as a fashion model or influencer, this AI debuted as an artist in New Work Fashion Week (NYFW), the best fashion week in the world. This first super-giant AI-based human is Tilda, an AI artist of LG AI Research.

On Monday, February 14 at 7 PM (New York time), Tilda made a stunning debut in front of fashion enthusiasts around the world through a stage titled Flower Blossomed in Venus. The fashion industry did not spare compliments to the pieces jointly created by the AI artist powered by the super-giant AI and a professional human designer, describing them as “creative and revolutionary.” Tilda entered the fashion design industry using the bidirectional language-image generation model of EXAONE as the brain. EXAONE is the super-giant AI created by LG which boasts the largest learning data in Korea.

NYFW 2022FW  'Greedilous by Tilda' Collection 

A scene of the show. Greedilous by Tilda. NYFW.

 

The First AI Human with the Super-giant AI(EXAONE)

The fundamental source of Tilda’s artistic qualities is the super-giant AI—EXAONE—which has learned 600 billion corpora and 250 million high-resolution images integrated with text that lead to creative abilities surpassing the existing AI models. Since EXAONE is the first super-giant AI with a bidirectional data generation capacity that links language and image, the fashion week was a perfect place to showcase its potential. With NYFW as a start, LG AI Research plans to realize EXAONE’s goal of becoming a “top 1% expert AI model” by expanding collaborative projects with Tilda in various areas.

 

Flowers on bottom are generated images by EXAONE with keyword 'flowers on Venus', and the patterns on top are designed by human designer based on flower images. Powered by EXAONE

Various pattern images. Powered by EXAONE

"Draw Me Flowers Blossomed in Venus"

Tilda presented a fashion show themed flowers blossomed in Venus. Venus was named after a goddess of beauty. It is also the hottest planet in our solar system. The environment in Venus would be similar to the extreme cases of global warming on Earth. Through flowers blossomed in Venus, Tilda wanted to deliver a message that we must save the planet before it is too late.

For NYFW, Tilda collaborated with Younhee Park, the CEO of Greedilous, a fashion brand based in New York. This is how the collaboration between Tilda and the human designer went. Park requested Tilda, “Draw me flowers blossomed in Venus.” Tilda’s brain (EXAONE) then created a unique image that meets the request. Finally, Park created a new pattern inspired by the image and applied it to the show pieces such as shirt and jacket. Rather than the adversarial relationship between humans and AI, which can be seen from AlphaGo winning Sedol Lee, a Go player of 9 dan rank, in a Go match, the project impressively shows collaboration and coexistence between humans and AI. Designer Park commented, “I could see Tilda’s potential the moment I saw its work. It perfectly fit my fashion philosophy like custom-made clothes. I agreed with the collaboration without hesitance.”

Tilda Pattern Reinterpretation: Image created by Tilda(Top left) turned into the clothes(right) by human designers. Powered by EXAONE

Tilda Drawing Reinterpration. Powered by EXAONE

Clothes designed by AI-Human collaboration. Greedilous by Tilda

Clothes designed by AI-Human collaboration. Greedilous by Tilda

Clothes designed by AI-Human collaboration. Greedilous by Tilda

"A Wave of Change Brought by AI and Human"

A teaser of Tilda released ahead of the fashion week already attracted much attention from people around the world. On January 29, LG AI Research released a 20 second video of Tilda standing on Venus on YouTube. The video gained 1.56 million views in only two weeks, amplifying curiosity about Tilda. In the video, Tilda throws a significant message, “I want to show you better Earth.”

The message around “better Earth” is embedded into Tilda’s name. Originated from “tilde (~)” that looks like a wave, Tilda means “a wave of change brought by AI and humans together for a better world.” For Tilda, the wave starts from the awareness of climate crisis. The theme of Tilda's collaborative show in NYFW, Flowers Blossomed in Venus, was inspired by this idea. Tilda plans to continue the wave of change that started on Venus even after NYFW, with the aim of launching an eco-friendly fashion brand to spread the message of environmentalism through fashion.
▶YouTube Tilda Teaser (Link)

AI Artist Tilda

However, Tilda’s identity is not limited to a designer. She will use various channels and methods to spread her creativity as an artist. Tilda’s closest friends are Generation Z who will inherit the future Earth. From now on, Tilda will work across the reality and metaverse, and reach out to Gen Z to “join the wave of change” using fashion and art as a link. Please look forward to what the ambitious artist Tilda will bring next.

The beginning of LG's AI Artist 'Tilda' (Link)