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‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 5 days ago by perishthethought@lemm.ee to c/technology@beehaw.org

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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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[–] LANCESTAAAA@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If artists were compensated for their art being fed through the AI to feed the algorithm, sure. They are not. It's not too dissimilar from our comments and data being farmed to better other LLMs and that is intellectual theft as well.

[–] westyvw@lemm.ee 5 points 4 days ago

I could have that discussion. But it still wouldn't be theft. Nothing was actually stolen.

[–] Vivendi@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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!

[–] Serpent@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago

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..