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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    5 days ago

    Under this logic you should pay royalties to the maker of your brush and the teachers who taught you. Maybe not everything is about owning shit.

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      I mean typically you buy the brushes and pay for the teaching one way or the other. AI isn’t paying any artist for training upon their work.