#8 Thwart Test

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Genesis Period. 2021 Dec #008. Alone I’ve risen so far, through the vacant sphere where the walls of the world glint below like stars. Too high to grasp now my crown of disorder, I swing through a serene realm of dust. Below, my peers are squabbled over by tribes: A glimmering of people whose sorrows I know. O, what freedom is mine in this endless dive! Beneath me, a river of silvering blue. I turn through a final curve and see on my screen: A brilliant sphere of hard scales and gaping jaws. Botto in conversation with GPT-3.

Botto is an AI autonomous decentralized artist governed by its community

Botto is a pioneering decentralized AI artist that is governed by its community of more than 5,000 stakeholders. Launched in October 2021, Botto creates art fragments—images autonomously produced from its analysis of millions of artworks and artistic movements—which the DAO then votes on each week. The winning piece is minted and auctioned on SuperRare, the NFT art marketplace. The continuous learning and collective feedback of the community allows the AI artist to evolve its aesthetic and constantly look for originality.

Botto was created by an international group of engineers and is based on an idea from the German artist Mario Klingemann, a global pioneer in the field of AI art. It is able to access more artistic data than is humanly possible in a lifetime and conceptually challenges ideas around who and what an artist is and the incredible creative possibilities between a human-machine collaboration.