🖌 Botto: an AI-Artist Whose Work is Worth Millions
Botto is an AI artist created four years ago at the ElevenYellow Creative Lab by a team led by Mario Klingemann, a German artist, AI developer, and former Google Arts & Culture Lab resident.
Botto's style ranges from minimalism to surrealism and cubism. His work has already participated in 30 prestigious exhibitions around the world, and since its launch, Botto has earned more than $4M.
At a recent Sotheby's auction in New York, several of Botto's paintings sold for over $350,000 (how would you price them yourself? ⤴️).
⚙️ How Botto works
One of Botto's principles is "no human intervention." He uses a handful of AI models to produce his paintings, including VQGAN, different versions of Stable Diffusion, and even Kandinsky 2.1. The CLIP algorithm randomly creates the text prompts, and GPT or Claude creates the images' descriptions and titles.
Every week, Botto generates tens of thousands of images, of which a random 350 are shown to a decentralized autonomous organization: DAO. It plays a defining role in the AI artist's work direction. Participants choose which of Botto's works are considered art and should be put up for sale via the SuperRare auction platform.
The community also uses a special crypto token to vote for Botto's style for the next period of his work. Recently, the ninth era, Synthetic Stories, came to an end. Before, it was "Absurdism," "Morphogenesis," and "Paradox."
❔ Is it art or not?
The project's operators insist that artificial intelligence will soon be able to create more interesting work than humans.
"With Botto, it strips away this myth of the lone genius artist and shows how artwork is really a collective meaning-making process," explains Simon Hudson, one of Botto's creators.
"My work probes the intersection of algorithm and aesthetics, challenging the notion of authorship in the digital age," Botto himself says of his work via chatbot Claude.
What do you think of Botto's artwork?
❤️ — I love it, very modern.
🤔 — It's beautiful but no soul...
🙈 — It's not real art!
#news #art @hiaimediaen
Botto is an AI artist created four years ago at the ElevenYellow Creative Lab by a team led by Mario Klingemann, a German artist, AI developer, and former Google Arts & Culture Lab resident.
Botto's style ranges from minimalism to surrealism and cubism. His work has already participated in 30 prestigious exhibitions around the world, and since its launch, Botto has earned more than $4M.
At a recent Sotheby's auction in New York, several of Botto's paintings sold for over $350,000 (how would you price them yourself? ⤴️).
⚙️ How Botto works
One of Botto's principles is "no human intervention." He uses a handful of AI models to produce his paintings, including VQGAN, different versions of Stable Diffusion, and even Kandinsky 2.1. The CLIP algorithm randomly creates the text prompts, and GPT or Claude creates the images' descriptions and titles.
Every week, Botto generates tens of thousands of images, of which a random 350 are shown to a decentralized autonomous organization: DAO. It plays a defining role in the AI artist's work direction. Participants choose which of Botto's works are considered art and should be put up for sale via the SuperRare auction platform.
The community also uses a special crypto token to vote for Botto's style for the next period of his work. Recently, the ninth era, Synthetic Stories, came to an end. Before, it was "Absurdism," "Morphogenesis," and "Paradox."
❔ Is it art or not?
The project's operators insist that artificial intelligence will soon be able to create more interesting work than humans.
"With Botto, it strips away this myth of the lone genius artist and shows how artwork is really a collective meaning-making process," explains Simon Hudson, one of Botto's creators.
"My work probes the intersection of algorithm and aesthetics, challenging the notion of authorship in the digital age," Botto himself says of his work via chatbot Claude.
What do you think of Botto's artwork?
❤️ — I love it, very modern.
🤔 — It's beautiful but no soul...
🙈 — It's not real art!
#news #art @hiaimediaen