These images were created by an artist known as Botto, which exhibited at Sotheby's in New York this October and has made more than $4 million from sales of its work. In truth though, Botto needs only GPUs to get creative juices flowing. Botto contains an AI image generator similar to Dall-E or Midjourney but its output is also shaped by a 'taste model' that selects the most pleasing images generated by a prompt. The taste model is tuned to reflect the preferences of a community of Botto enthusiasts who vote on the images Botto produces and posts online here. Botto is also governed by a decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO, meaning enthusiasts can buy $Botto cryptocurrency and influence how the system is managed and developed. The recent Sotheby's show is just the latest in a string of successful exhibitions for Botto. The October event alone racked up $350,000 in sales. Botto has made around $4 million in total since 2021, its creators say. Klingemann and Hudson say those...
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