Meet Botto, the AI-Artist That Mints Its Own NFTs
Everybody who’s part of the DAO has to start thinking like an artist. They have to make the same kind of decisions such as, “Do I prefer something that is palatable, which is nice to look at, and probably sells? Or do we go for something more edgy that is hard, and maybe not everybody will like?” And every week, that decision changes again. There’s always a mixture between typical, let’s say, Midjourney-style stuff, which is nice, and then a few which are crazy, and of course I like the crazy ones.
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