Botto, the Millionaire AI Artist, Is Getting a Personality

It’s an interesting idea, and it’s interesting to see the idea of ​​artificial intelligence agents explored in the relatively benign realm of artistic expression.

Still, Botto raises some moral dilemmas. many artists Right to worry about the impact of artificial intelligence Their careers are being affected as models trained on millions of copyrighted works are used to generate unlimited imitations on demand.

Maybe boto is something completely different. Klingemann is Early adopters of artificial intelligence in the artsusing neural networks as part of the artistic process and as a performance technique. His previous creations include a video installation Changing AI-generated portraits and a robot dog Shit criticism of works of visual art.

While Botto produced high-priced images using a model trained on public work, Klingermann doesn’t consider it an outright plagiarism. “Image models and LL.M.s are the new search engines,” he said. “For me, creativity is about discovering something that already exists in the possibility space and making sure it’s interesting while making sure it looks [like it] It no longer belongs to anyone.

The images produced by Botto look beautiful, but at least to my untrained eye, feel like a fairly generic AI image generator product.

While the Botto Project raises some interesting questions about art institutions, at the moment I think it simply underscores the importance of human intelligence and creativity. The spark of creativity belongs not to the machine that keeps churning out images based on feedback from the crowd, but to the artist who originally came up with the idea.

What do you think of Botto and his artwork? Is this a valuable artistic idea, or just another way to make money from generating artificial intelligence and meme coins? Send message to hello@wired.com Or leave a comment below to let me know.