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.
Prompt, seed, model, LORAs, and better hope it’s a sampler that reliably produces the same results each time for the same input as not all of them do.
Nah, inability to produce the actual image is the point. All the “artist” did was type in a box, so that’s all the purchaser gets.