Michigan-based film industry concept artist Southen believes that Christie’s should hold themselves to a higher standard when it comes to engaging with AI in a way that is supportive of artists and doesn’t exploit them. He and many of his peers have seen their income slashed in half due to the rise of AI in the industry. The World Economic Forum reports that 41% of employers plan to downsize their workforce as AI replicates roles, but 69% plan to recruit talent skilled in AI tool design and enhancement.
Christie’s sees AI as a natural progression in art history, with director of digital art Nicole Sales Giles welcoming the debate around their AI art auction. Many of the artists featured in the auction used their own data, such as personal photography and poetry, to train their AI models. Digital artist Daniel Ambrosi, whose work is part of the auction, has been using AI for almost 10 years and fed his photography of Central Park into Google’s DeepDream to create hallucinogenic images.
Ambrosi compares his use of AI to leading a jazz band, where he writes original compositions and lets the AI improvise and surprise him. Sales Giles believes that artists have been influenced by other artists for centuries, and while she can’t comment on the legality, she sees AI as a positive transformation for the art industry. The debate around AI and its impact on artists, their work, and the industry as a whole continues to evolve.
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