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Controversial Open Letter Calls on Christie’s to Halt A.I. Auction
Thousands of artists have signed an open letter opposing Christie's forthcoming A.I. auction, expressing "serious concern" over the works.
Thousands call on Christie’s to cancel AI art auction in open letter
More than 3,000 people have signed onto an open letter circulating calling on Christie’s New York to cancel an upcoming sale dedicated solely to art created with artificial intelligence (AI), the first of its kind for a major auction house,
First Christie’s Auction Devoted Exclusively To AI Art Sparks Backlash
Fine-arts auction house Christie's announces “Augmented Intelligence,” its first auction dedicated entirely to art made with AI. Not all artists are happy about it.
Christie’s plan for AI art auction sparks backlash from artists
Creative industries worry that generative artificial intelligence models could replicate or even replace their original works
Christie's AI art auction has artists up in arms, but the issue is more complex
We've already seen auction houses start to flirt with AI art. Last year, the 'autonomous AI artist' Botto made $351,600 at Sotheby's. But Christie's decision to host an entire auction dedicated to AI art this month is sparking a fierce backlash.
3,700 artists sign letter opposing Christie's AI art auction
Christie’s AI art auction is sparking controversy as artists claim AI-generated works exploit copyrighted materials.
LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue sign open letter calling for AI ‘public goods’
Ten prominent tech CEOs and venture capitalists are calling for the creation of public data sets and incentives to develop ...
Fears AI ‘could be made to suffer’ if it becomes conscious
The concern for many is that if AI can become conscious, forcing it to serve us would be like slavery. It could be abused or ...
A Musk-backed group just offered a $97 billion unsolicited bid for OpenAI
In the latest salvo of the six-year-long feud between Sam Altman and Elon Musk, a group backed by the latter just made a $97 billion bid for OpenAI.
France, tech companies and philanthropies back $400 million foundation to support public interest AI
The initiative, called Current AI, will fund efforts around new public datasets, open source AI, and public accountability ...
Orgs demand action to mitigate AI’s environmental harm
A group of more than 100 organizations has published an open letter calling on the AI industry and regulators to mitigate the ...
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AI industry urged to phase out fossil fuels
Globally, AI-related infrastructure has been estimated to soon consume six times the water as Denmark, while one request ...
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Will AI systems be caused to suffer if consciousness achieved
“It may be the case that large numbers of conscious systems could be created and caused to suffer,” the researchers say, ...
Will China’s open-source AI end U.S. supremacy in the field?
Eric Schmidt, former CEO and chairman of Google, is co-founder of Schmidt Sciences and chair of the nonpartisan think tank ...