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Meet Botto, the AI 'machine artist' making millions of dollars

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Botto is a "decentralized autonomous artist" created by software collective ElevenYellow and computer programmer Mario Klingemann .

Each week , Botto generates around 70,000 images and presents 350 of them to a group of about 5,000 people known as the BottoDAO.

Botto has produced around 150 images, or "works," which together have fetched more than $5 million via auctions since 2021 .