{"id":13720,"date":"2024-12-18T19:20:49","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T19:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=13720"},"modified":"2024-12-18T19:20:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T19:20:49","slug":"botto-the-millionaire-ai-artist-is-getting-a-personality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=13720","title":{"rendered":"Botto, the Millionaire AI Artist, Is Getting a Personality"},"content":{"rendered":"


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It\u2019s an interesting idea, and it is fun to see the idea of an AI agent explored within the relatively benign realm of artistic expression.<\/p>\n

That said, Botto still poses some ethical conundrums. Many working artists rightly worry about the impact AI<\/a> is having on their profession, as models trained on millions of copyrighted works are used to generate infinite knock-offs on demand.<\/p>\n

Perhaps Botto is something altogether different. Klingemann is an early adopter of AI in art<\/a>, using neural networks as part of the artistic process, and as a kind of performance schtick. His previous creations include a video installation featuring ever-changing AI-generated portraits<\/a> and a robot dog that poops critiques of visual artworks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And while Botto generates high-priced images using a model trained on public work, Klingermann does not see this as outright plagiarism. \u201cImage models and LLMs are the new search engines,\u201d he says. \u201cFor me, creativity is kind of finding something that already exists in possibility-space, and deciding this is interesting, while making sure it looks [like it] doesn’t belong to anybody already.\u201d<\/p>\n

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