AI generative art hits the world auction stage

French art group Obvious develops AI artworks through algorithms. Christie's becomes first institution to sell AI art.

The painting on the auction stage is a man with a blurred face, as if a shadow haunts his mind.

The painting is on display at Christie's in London and will be part of the Prints and Limited Works Sale in New York.

For paintings based on the Generative Adversarial Network model, the artist first fed 15,000 portraits. After learning these initial training sets, the two neural networks confronted each other, randomly generated a picture, and the discriminant network judged Whether the generated image is real. The two play games with each other, learn constantly, and finally generate works that can "mix the fake with the real". (https://hk.thevalue.com/articles/first-ai-generated-artwork-sold)

The Obvious team is from Paris and includes artists and researchers. They hope to bring AI art out of the technical field and into traditional markets, ultimately promoting the democratization of GAN technology and vindicating AI art. They saw the promotion as a new art movement and named it "GAN-ism".