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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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[-] perishthethought@lemm.ee 56 points 6 days ago

Phrases my friends would never use:

AI Art

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 6 days ago

I prefer the term "AI Fabrications" because of the dual-meaning of fabrication. On one hand it implies industrial fabrication, on the other hand it implies fabrication as in a lie. Because AI is both of those simultaneously. It is industrially fabricated and it is a lie.

[-] sqgl@beehaw.org 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

In Croatian (and I suspect many other Slavic languages) art is umjetnost which is a variation of the word umjetno which means artificial.

[-] Kallioapina@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 days ago

Interesting. In finnish the word for art is 'taide'. It's etymological root word is 'taito', which means skill.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago
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