Almost 6,500 artists demanded in an open letter that superb artwork public sale home Christie’s cancel its first present devoted solely to works created with AI. But, the present, Augmented Intelligence, went on — and reportedly exceeded expectations.
In line with Christie’s, the present introduced in additional than $700,000, with many tons reaching past their excessive estimates. The highest sale was Anadol’s “Machine Hallucinations — ISS Goals — A,” a dynamic portray that algorithmically reimagines knowledge from the Worldwide House Station and satellites. It fetched $277,200.
Christie’s VP and director of digital artwork gross sales, Nicole Gross sales Giles, told platform Artnet that the present’s success “confirmed” that collectors acknowledge “artistic voices pushing the boundaries of artwork.”
Many artists don’t really feel that method.
Within the aforementioned letter, the undersigned accused Christie’s of that includes art work created utilizing AI fashions “recognized to be skilled on copyrighted work” with out a license that “exploit” human artists — utilizing their work with out permission to construct merchandise that compete with them.