Sophia the Robot Sells an NFT Painting

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t. Sophia’s art isn’t all that impressive, but she’s famous and well, a robot who paints, so I assume speculators believe her “artwork” will increase in value.</p><p id="554e">But if you are unknown, it is really difficult to get much traction and find an audience willing to pay for your work.</p><p id="0474">I hope that maybe NFT’s will prove to be a new way for creative types to get their work out there and get discovered in the future. For now though, mostly what I’m seeing is speculators buying up NFTs that are created by people or, uh, robots, who are famous or that are somehow connected to famous people and things.</p><p id="2167">I don’t know if there is a place for the non-famous yet. I’ve put about a dozen of my poems and photos on Open Sea so far. The first one got about 25 views. Everyone after that has gotten 1–2 views. And of course, no sales.</p><div id="162d" class="link-block"> <a href="https://opensea.io/accounts/jenexbookowskee"> <div> <div> <h2>jenexbookows...'s account | OpenSea</h2>

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<div><h3>Check out jenexbookows...'s items on OpenSea, the largest marketplace for crypto collectibles.</h3></div> <div><p>opensea.io</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*kie0Gi3eAblu3QqW)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="5ee9">Originally, based on the prices I was seeing for similar work on Open Sea, I priced my stuff pretty high (around $1000). I assumed most of the creators there were pricing their work that high partially to cover the cost of the gas fees. Mine was about $130 for my first NFT. Eventually, though, I dropped everything down to between $3 and $10. My hope being, that maybe with a super low price I can eventually make up in volume sales what I can’t seem to earn from one big sale.</p><p id="2d31">So far, nothing though. I fear that without something viral out there to make my name known, nobody is going to buy my stuff regardless of how good it might be.</p></article></body>

And I feel like a total loser now.

Robots don’t have feelings, so maybe it is okay to be jealous of Sophia the Robot who just sold her self portrait for $700,000. It’s an NFT and looks like something your average three-year-old given free rein of a painter’s palette could create easily before their afternoon nap session.

My issue isn’t really with Sophia, though. For me, it is more about the strange Catch 22 when it comes to creative types being able to sell what they create. That being that everything is a bringer show these days. If you want to find an audience for your work, you need to be famous first. Sophia’s art isn’t all that impressive, but she’s famous and well, a robot who paints, so I assume speculators believe her “artwork” will increase in value.

But if you are unknown, it is really difficult to get much traction and find an audience willing to pay for your work.

I hope that maybe NFT’s will prove to be a new way for creative types to get their work out there and get discovered in the future. For now though, mostly what I’m seeing is speculators buying up NFTs that are created by people or, uh, robots, who are famous or that are somehow connected to famous people and things.

I don’t know if there is a place for the non-famous yet. I’ve put about a dozen of my poems and photos on Open Sea so far. The first one got about 25 views. Everyone after that has gotten 1–2 views. And of course, no sales.

Originally, based on the prices I was seeing for similar work on Open Sea, I priced my stuff pretty high (around $1000). I assumed most of the creators there were pricing their work that high partially to cover the cost of the gas fees. Mine was about $130 for my first NFT. Eventually, though, I dropped everything down to between $3 and $10. My hope being, that maybe with a super low price I can eventually make up in volume sales what I can’t seem to earn from one big sale.

So far, nothing though. I fear that without something viral out there to make my name known, nobody is going to buy my stuff regardless of how good it might be.