AI Artist Botto Shows How DAOs Can Reshape Creative Industries
AI Artist Botto Shows How DAOs Can Reshape Creative Industries
🤖 AI meets democracy
Botto Project demonstrates a new model where AI creates art and community decides what gets released.
How it works:
- AI generates hundreds of artworks weekly
- DAO members vote on which piece becomes the final release
- Chosen artwork gets minted as 1/1 NFT and sold
- Revenue shares go to active voters and community treasury
Recent success: The p5.botto generative series in London moved from online votes to offline gallery exhibition, generating media coverage and collector demand.
Key difference: No single curator controls releases - collective taste drives decisions through real economic stakes, not just social media likes.
All voting and transactions happen on-chain for full transparency. This model shows how DAOs can coordinate creative decisions while AI handles production, creating new possibilities for decentralized cultural institutions.
AI creates, DAO decides Meet @bottoproject: an AI artist (yes, we’re in the future) governed entirely by a DAO. Every week, the machine generates hundreds of artworks. The community votes on which piece becomes the final release — and that one gets minted and sold as a 1/1
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