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Botto, the Millionaire AI Artist, Is Getting a Personality
Botto is a 'decentralized AI artist' whose work has fetched millions. As AI improves, its creators may give it fewer guardrails to test its emerging personality.
Klingemann and Hudson hope that this personality will even start to steer the art that Botto creates, perhaps allowing it to use an “unaligned” image generator—meaning one without the guardrails that would prevent it from producing racy or violent imagery—to see if it can develop its own sense of what is artistically acceptable. While the Botto project poses some interesting questions about what constitutes artistic agency, for now I think it only emphasizes the importance of human intelligence and inventiveness. The spark of creativity belongs not to the machine that churns out a never-ending variety of images with feedback from the crowd, but to the artists who came up with the idea in the first place.
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