Thousands of artists are urging the auction house Christie’s to cancel a sale of art created with artificial intelligence, claiming the technology behind the works is committing “mass theft”.

The Augmented Intelligence auction has been described by Christie’s as the first AI-dedicated sale by a major auctioneer and features 20 lots with prices ranging from $10,000 to $250,000 for works by artists including Refik Anadol and the late AI art pioneer Harold Cohen.

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    4 days ago

    Humans train on past art. Fundamentally speaking there is no new thing created without millions of predecessor context.

    Materialistic analysis demands that nothing exists without context, thus your point is moot.