This T-Shirt Company Does Not Exist

T-shirts designed by AI, made for real humans

4 followers

T-shirts designed by AI, made for real humans

4 followers

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A lifestyle t-shirt company inspired by New York. The t-shirts are designed by AI, learning from a training set of 1million+ open source images. Featuring classic characters from NYC living like “dollar slice”, “lil doggo”, “subway rat” and “pigeon pal”.

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Launch tags:Fashion•Artificial Intelligence•Tech

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Viktor.comAn AI coworker that actually does the work

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Zenly

Maker

Hey everyone, my name is Sarah McBride and I am one of the makers behind Cross & Freckle. Alongside Tyler and Paul, I've been super fortunate to be immersed in the growing “synthetic media” scene here in NYC and as a team we wanted to dabble in some AI-generated media for ourselves. And, as Nick said, if software is eating the world, we may as well make cute t-shirts out of it! The doodles on the t-shirts are generated by AI, but are very much real t-shirts for real humans. They come in all colors from white to black. That is, they come in white and black. From the obsession over little puppers, to 1AM dollar slices, to morning commutes alongside subway rats and to making friends with pigeons, the Cross & Freckle t-shirt range represents life as we know it in NYC, with a little help from AI. On the science side, Paul, our esteemed engineer, trained a variational autoencoder (machine learning model) on Google Creative Lab's Quick, Draw! Dataset. He chose to use the model architecture from the Sketch RNN paper, and trained the model on NYC themed drawings. The output? Fun and fresh lifestyle t-shirts, that are sure to be a conversation-starter. Please do check out the t-shirts and read more into the science behind them over on our website. Please also feel free to ask questions and leave comments below. Thanks!! (this is my first-ever project launch on PH and I'm so excited/nervous) 🍕🐕🐀🐦

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7yr ago

Polymer

@sararahmcb does this comment even exist? In all seriousness, congrats to you and the crew! I'm trying to decide between dollar slice and lil doggo...

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7yr ago

Zenly

Maker

@urbanorganism dammit, I totally should have generated the maker note too! Thanks for supporting us, Yasser. Can't wait to see you in your AI tee!

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7yr ago

Lemon Lab

I love the idea of using AI to create physical products like t-shirts. Congrats @sararahmcb and team on the launch!! 🚀

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7yr ago

I honestly don’t understand. What’s the catch? Why would anyone pay $25.00 for that t-shirt? They wouldn’t. Which means I am missing something. And I feel like I’m going to be made fun of for missing the obvious

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7yr ago

Polymer

@brad_tobias I just bought one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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7yr ago

Ramp

Hunter

Software is eating the world... and the shirt on your back. Congrats to Sarah & team for launching. 👕

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7yr ago

Zenly

Maker

@nickabouzeid thanks for the support Nick! Can't wait to see you rockin' dollar slice 🍕

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7yr ago

Congrats on launching @sararahmcb @tylerjbecker and @pblankley 👏 I love the idea of using AI to create tshirt designs! Also I like how minimalists they are, so really easy to wear

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7yr ago

Zenly

Maker

@tylerjbecker @pblankley @mrcalexandre thank you! the training set has already been put to use in a bunch of different ways, so we figured we'd find a cool way to use it to create something we could wear. (plus i love pizza)

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7yr ago

@tylerjbecker @pblankley @sararahmcb

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7yr ago

This is Awesome ... But what it really needs is user generation. I ask for "feet" or foot or rock music ... Or hmmmm jester ... Hendrix John Lee hooker And it goes away and then comes back with some designs (watermarked) ... I choose what I want (pay for design) or I can order it printed (pay for design and t-shirt) That literally means I can have an almsot unique design (pay extra if u want to get the design and then no one else can use it) And as it's AI and always searching ... I guess someone you can always come back and ask again and even have a new design with the same search terms! And you will build a data base for future designs for faster release

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7yr ago

This T-Shirt Company Does Not Exist

Maker

@ranjit_ghoshal super cool ideas! the real time generation would be especially sick

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7yr ago

@pblankley and more than that, as there is no physical person making the design, and if u use something like www.kite.ly or equivalent ... Just think of the possibilities ... I mean I'm jealous, you could even do so much for social good by viral campaigns like a sustainable t-shirts with designs for a charity based themes like ice bucket Can you imagine every one with a t shirt that had been ai drawn on a theme like (no more) war child Sorry I am just getting carried away and excited and feeling stupid I don't know AI Lol ... I'm just gonna go away and do my little things now and SCREAM IN EXCITEMENT Everytime I thing of the possibilities you have (P.s. I do have an idea of collab suddenly. Chat?)

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7yr ago

GitMerch

@pblankley @ranjit_ghoshal you can use my merch38.com UGC t-shirt plugin for sure

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7yr ago

These are great t shirts! And if you’re gonna wear it, it needs to be 💥 ! great work - rumor has it they are super soft too. Snuggle up with lil doggo.

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7yr ago

Zenly

Maker

@danikadanika can confirm they are SUPER

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7yr ago

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