{"id":13612,"date":"2025-02-07T11:42:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T18:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13612"},"modified":"2025-02-16T11:50:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T18:50:54","slug":"ai-auction-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/02\/07\/ai-auction-v1\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Auction v.1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/Harold Cohen (1928-2016),\u00a0Untitled (i23-03758); Estimate: $10,000-15,000.\u00a0CHRISTIE'S IMAGES LTD 2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from OBSERVER<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Christie\u2019s Is Holding the First Ever Dedicated A.I. Art Sale at a Major Auction House<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>How you feel about that might just depend on how much human intervention you think is required to make A.I. generated art legitimate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/author\/christa-terry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Christa Terry<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2025\/02\/christies-first-dedicated-ai-art-auction-artificial-intelligence\/harold-cohen-hi-res\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/Harold-Cohen-Hi-Res.jpg?quality=80&amp;w=970\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1530349\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Harold Cohen (1928-2016),\u00a0<em>Untitled (i23-03758)<\/em>; Estimate: $10,000-15,000.\u00a0CHRISTIE&#8217;S IMAGES LTD 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I felt a vague sense of disquietude when I received word from Christie\u2019s that it would be hosting the first-ever artificial intelligence-dedicated sale at a major house. Just a little moment of unease. Frankly, it\u2019s hard to shush those quiet biases that make a person want to categorize all art into \u201creal art\u201d and \u201cother,\u201d as if I have somehow earned the right to make that distinction. But unpacking my kneejerk reaction to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.christies.com\/en\/auction\/augmented-intelligence-23942-nyr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Augmented Intelligence auction<\/a>, which will be open for bidding from February 20 through March 5, didn\u2019t take long. I am a person who makes things, and the adoption of artificial intelligence technologies in creative spheres feels like an existential threat when you\u2019re someone who has roped material survival to artistic impulses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m also a realist. Artificial intelligence can write and draw and, tethered to a robotic arm, it can paint, and it can\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2023\/10\/refik-anadols-unsupervised-is-now-part-of-momas-permanent-collection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">make data so beautiful we put it in museums<\/a>, but there\u2019s always a human being behind the curtain pulling the strings, whether by writing code or dreaming up ideas or otherwise telling A.I. what to do. (For the record, it can also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2020\/01\/anodot-artificial-intelligence-online-glitches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">chase glitches<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2020\/01\/artificial-intelligence-breast-cancer-diagnosis\/\">sus out breast cancers better than human doctors<\/a>\u00a0and, just maybe,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2019\/12\/artificial-intelligence-porn-habit-covenant-eyes-lamar-odom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">break your porn habit<\/a>.) I also futz around with artificial intelligence on the regular because I\u2019m not as afraid of A.I. stealing my job as I am of someone who\u2019s really good at using A.I. stealing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2025\/02\/christies-first-dedicated-ai-art-auction-artificial-intelligence\/?utm_source=sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=daily&amp;utm_term=02\/10\/2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at OBSERVER<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from OBSERVER Christie\u2019s Is Holding the First Ever Dedicated A.I. Art Sale at a Major Auction House How you feel about that might just depend on how much human intervention you think is required to make A.I. generated art legitimate. By\u00a0Christa Terry I felt a vague sense of disquietude when I received word from Christie\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}