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Ignoring Protests, Christie's Holds AI Art Auction, Makes Big Money
As Christie's auction house planned the first-ever auction dedicated to AI-generated art works, over 5,600 people signed an online letter urging them to cancel it. "Many of the artworks you plan to auction were created using AI models that are known to be trained on copyrighted work without a licens...
"These models, and the companies behind them, exploit human artists, using their work without permission or payment to build commercial AI products that compete with them. ARTnews reports that the auction actually brought in more than Christie's had expected: The sale, which made up of 34 lots, had an 82 percent sell through rate... While some digital artists, including Beeple, championed the sale, others decried it as emblematic of the ongoing struggle between human artistry and machine-driven innovation.
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