Cluster #069

Abstract

Botto project is an experiment in creating a decentralized autonomous artist that generates art based on community feedback. Every week, Botto creates and sells artwork via a series of models and crowd-sourced evaluations of over 9,000 people who also decide how to manage the artist and its sales. Over the centuries, the idea of autonomous entities with creative or co-creative abilities has captivated the human imagination. From early literary examples [Kantosalo et al., 2021] to today's text-to-image models like Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, which can generate realistic imagery in seconds, the notion of machines as artistic agents has gained prominence.