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Christie’s First to Sell Art Made by AI
The Portrait of Edmond Belamy sold for $432,500, in a sale auction house Christies called the first auction to feature work created by artificial intelligence.
Credit: Obvious
A painted portrait produced by a machine learning algorithm was auctioned off for $432,000, topping the forecast estimate of $7,000-$10,000 by Christie's in New York.
The painting, called "Portrait of Edmond Belamy," is the product of the Obvious art collective in Paris, which trained the algorithm on a dataset of 15,000 portraits painted between the 14th and 20th centuries.
The algorithm compared its own artwork to those in the dataset until it was impossible to distinguish between them.
The portrait is the first piece of AI art to be sold at a major auction house.
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