Letter says many of works being sold by Christie’s are made by AI models trained on pieces by human artists, without a licence

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.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    4 days ago

    Seriously? They’re auctioning AI generated shit? Fucking seriously?? Didn’t anybody learn anything from those stupid fucking nft?

    • perishthethought@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I think a lot of people’s take-away from NFTs was just that there’s still a sucker born every minute, and we all need money for food. No shocker there.