Creative progress or mass theft? Why a major AI art auction is provoking wonder – and outrage

Creative progress or mass theft? Why a major AI art auction is provoking wonder – and outrage

Thirty-four artworks created with artificial intelligence (AI) have gone up for sale at Christie’s in New York, in the famed auction house’s first collection dedicated to AI art.

Christie’s says the collection aims to explore “human agency in the age of AI within fine art”, prompting viewers to question the evolving role of the artist and of creativity.

Questions are not all the collection has prompted: there has also been a backlash. At the time of writing, more than 6,000…

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