It’s an interesting idea, and it’s fun to see the idea of an AI agent explored in the relatively benign realm of artistic expression.
That said, Botto still poses some ethical problems. Many working artists Rightly worry about the impact of AI is running on its profession, as models trained on millions of copyrighted works are used to generate infinite knock-offs on demand.
Perhaps Boto is something entirely different. Clingman is An early adopter of AI in artUsing neural networks as part of the artistic process, and as a form of performance. His previous works include a video installation featuring Ever-changing AI-generated portraits And a robot dog that Criticizes visual artwork.
And while Botto produces high-priced images using a model trained on public work, Klingerman doesn’t see this as outright plagiarism. “Image models and LLM are the new search engines,” he says. “For me, creativity is kind of finding something that’s already there in the possibility-space, and deciding it’s interesting, while making sure it shows up. [like it] Not already related to anyone.”
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The images created by Botto look aesthetically pleasing but also feel – to my untrained eye, at least – like fairly generic AI image generator offerings.
While the Boto project raises some interesting questions about what constitutes artistic agency, for now I think it only emphasizes the importance of human intelligence and exploration. The spark of creativity does not belong to the machine that generates 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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