A controversial payday for an AI artwork
A portrait created using an AI program has fetched $435,000 in auction at Christie’s, blowing the expected $7,000 to $10,000 price out of the water.
Record-breaking: It’s the first ever auction for an AI-generated portrait, sold to an anonymous bidder. It signals “the arrival of AI art on the world auction stage,” Christie’s said. The artwork, named the “Portrait of Edmond Belamy,” was created using a type of AI software called generative adversarial networks (GANs).
Credit where it’s due: The three members of the French art collective behind it, Obvious, have been accused of failing to credit the creator of the algorithms used to create it—Robbie Barrat, an artist and programmer who shared his algorithms on GitHub via an open-source license.
Questions: Who should be recognized for the artwork? And when an algorithm is used to a piece of art, who owns it—the person who created the algorithm, or the person who put it to that specific purpose?
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