Original Reddit post

“A year ago, at Christie’s auction house in New York City, auctioneers sold an unusual collection of art pieces: surreal portraits, photorealistic images and cartoon-inspired creations, all generated by artificial intelligence. The first-of-its-kind event sparked a backlash. More than 6,000 artists protested that the AI models used to create these works had been trained on copyrighted images without creator consent. While the auction house had [argued](mailto: https://press.christies.com/augmented-intelligence) that the works demonstrated “human agency in the age of AI,” critics saw the event as an example of an industry rushing to commercialize technology built on uncompensated creative labor.” submitted by /u/talkingatoms

Originally posted by u/talkingatoms on r/ArtificialInteligence