Botto, the 'inverse cyborg' artist, uses AI and blockchain technology to make and sell its own art. Watch how it works

German artist Mario Klingemann set out to create his newest project Botto to answer a simple question: “Can a machine be an artist?”

Having a computer spit out images isn’t new anymore, thanks to generative AI models like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E. New programs from Runway, OpenAI, Tencent and Kuaishou can now generate whole video from a text prompt.