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.
Since art has been used to funnel large sums of money, I doubt they plan to cancel that.
Yeah, I don’t care what they do in the name of commerce. I just wish they wouldn’t call it art.
They don’t have to pay the middle man now!