Getting started: How to create a public model on exactly.ai

There are many ways to make your artwork visible on a larger scale–creating a public model is one of them. Here on exactly.ai, we have two types of models: public and private. A public model is one created by you, published in the platform, and accessible to everyone.

What’s so exciting about it? By creating a public model, your model will be a part of the community library alongside the other professional creators. Everyone, including our community of one hundred thousand artists, designers, illustrators, and brands can access your model and generate images with it.

It’s not stopping there. Once your model is approved, you can also licence it as a verified public model. This will enable you to gain revenue each time someone generates images with your model for commercial projects, which you can learn more about here.

Aside from the excitement, you can rest assured that all artwork ownership will remain yours. No matter how many times people generate and experiment with your model, you retain the full copyright of your work. For all of your uploaded images and models trained with it–everything belongs to you. Find out more about our legal principles here.

As for now, let's start to create your public model.

First, train a new model

To train a new model, you need to pick out 5 to 50 images from your own artwork or any open-source that represents your style best. These images are the most essential ingredients to create a successful model, so let’s make sure to prepare it in the most optimal requirements: a big image size to ensure quality and a handful amount of image quantity to help the model train better. You can find some useful tips on training a model here.

After you have gathered everything, tap ‘Create new model’ and choose ‘Public model’ from the options, upload the images, and provide brief descriptions for each of them. The platform will use this information to train a model that can generate new images in the same style.

Second, review the generated image results

Now that you have the model trained, you will be led to a quiz page to score the generated image results. This is an important step to ensure the model is trained well based on your artwork style. Get through the quiz with any opinions that come to mind, so it can help us to improve a more optimal model trainer for you.

What happens next will be determined by your review. If you score them well, you can continue to publish your model by filling out the name and title image, choosing examples of the generated result, and the copyright status. Otherwise if you score the generated images poorly, you can retrain your model for free.

Third, send your model to moderation

Time to celebrate the small win–sit back as we moderate your model! Once completed, we will email the result to inform you whether the model is being accepted or rejected.

If your model gets accepted, there is nothing else you need to do from your side and we will be preparing to have your model published on the platform. If your model gets rejected, this may be caused by one of three reasons: your image is not aligning with our terms of use, or your model is not trained within a consistent style, or the copyright issues. In this case, you can always retrain your model for free.

Lastly, it’s always nice to get to know the creator behind a model–so try to set up your profile (if you haven’t already!) and let this be the time to give your best self-representation on the platform. Once your model is published, the information from your profile will be presented on the page along with your model.

What happens now?

After your model is published, the next exciting thing that you can do is to turn your model into a verified public model and start to earn from it. Once 25 users have tried your model, you will get an email with the opportunity to verify the copyright status. This verified public model allows subscribers to use generated images for commercial projects and you, as the creator behind the model, will be paid for it. You can discover more about this here.

For now, that’s everything you need to know to create a public model. We are excited to have you on board along with your work! Start today and have your work be seen widely out there, just like how it should be.

Sounds exciting? Sign up now to publish your first public model.