An open letter, now signed by over 3,000 individuals, urges Christie's New York to cancel its upcoming auction focused on AI-generated artworks. Critics argue that the AI models used leverage copyrighted content without artist consent, undermining the integrity of human artists. The auction, featuring notable names and a range of digital and traditional art forms, has sparked significant controversy and raised key ethical questions concerning the use of AI in the art industry, amid existing lawsuits against tech companies for copyright violations.
These models, and the companies behind them, exploit human artists, using their work without permission or payment to build commercial AI products that compete with them.
The letter highlights that by supporting these models, buyers and institutions are effectively rewarding and incentivizing AI companies' mass theft of human artists' work.
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