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One-line descriptionA documented forty-work AI portrait archive recorded on OpenSea between 18 and 22 February 2022.
Do not claim“First AI Putin NFT”; “first political AI NFT”; prediction or prophecy; OpenSea endorsement; undocumented model or prompts.
Technology contextMidjourney V1 was in its first documented phase in February 2022; OpenAI’s DALL·E 2 preview period followed in March/April; Stable Diffusion’s public release followed in August 2022.
Political chronologyThe final recorded event is 22 February 2022. The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began 24 February 2022. The project presents temporal proximity as provenance, not as prediction.
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Independent archival project.
BEFORE 24.02 is an independent archival and curatorial presentation of forty AI-generated portrait NFTs associated with the OpenSea collection tsarputin. The project is not affiliated with or endorsed by OpenSea, Vladimir Putin, the Russian government, or any political organization.