Thank you all for your participation in the very first Humanode Music Contest!

Although many of the songs were purely AI-generated, we also had real maestros write and perform for the contest! Even the Humanode Core team had a blast writing lyrics and trying to awaken their musical talents.

Naturally, it was not only the awakening of the creativity as an individual and as a community that was fun, seeing how the current models of AIs see the message of Humanode as they put it to song was also a learning experience.

Once again, thanks for the fun!

And now, the time has come to vote on the winners!

As many of you had previously mentioned, going through all of the entries to vote was way too time-consuming for the AI video contest (3min x 40 entries + another 30 min for the final round + time clicking and loading = nearly 3 hours of your life that could have been used for better things…), this time the Core team has selected our 13 favorite tunes out of all the entries (minus the ones done by the team members). The community is to vote on the 13 songs to select your favorite. (Yes, we originally said 10, but all of them were so good, we added three more to avoid fistfights. lol)

Vote once for each group that is posted.

Now, here is the twist this time. The top 3 songs will all receive the Gold prize of $100 (worth of HMND). The 4th to 6th place will receive the Silver prize of $50 (worth of HMND). If there are ties, a second round of voting will happen to “sort things out”.

Other songs have a chance of winning a “special mention” prize for excellence, but you do not need to be in the Top13 for a chance of a “special mention” prize.

Imagine a full “Humanode Album”. Not all songs make it on the final product, but some songs are selected to bring flavor or balance to the album. Thus, the Core team will be making these selections to bring light to some of the songs that were unfortunately not able to win Silver or Gold. These songs will be announced after the voting is over.

One note: all participants will be able to vote in the Humanode Discord Sybil-resistant channel # sr-polls . However, in order to keep things fair, if you were not a participant in the contest (as in if you did not submit a song), and you joined the server after the contest began, your vote will not count for this specific contest. Thank you for your understanding.

The voting round will last 72 hours. Now, go forth and vote!