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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    4 days ago

    This easily results in humans having to pay licensing fees just to look at art, because humans also use past context

    What is creativity? It’s nothing but what you have learned plus neural noise. If we try this Luddite dogmatic nonsense we’d have to kill human art as well, fucking THINK MARK, THINK!

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      I’m trying to square away what the difference is between this and George RR Martin reading Homer and Tolkien and others and then producing A Song of Ice and Fire…