At the Christie’s auction in the New York, a painting that was made by an Artificial Intelligence program was sold on Thursday for $432,500. Earlier it was predicted that the portrait would be sold for $7,000 to $10,000.
An unnamed phone bidder bought the Portrait of Edmond Bellamy. The painting was created by an algorithm that was developed by an art collective called Obvious in Paris. According to BBC, the team comprised of three people fed the network around 15,000 portraits starting from 14th Century to 20th Century.
According to the New York Times report, the works from Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol hung near the Artificial Intelligence generated portrait this week and the paintings were sold for 87,500 and 75,000 respectively.
The technology behind the AI-based portrait, Generative Adversarial Networks, has been used by many artists for more than three years. Obvious has used the code that Robbie Barrat wrote and released publicly. Obvious has confirmed to the Verge that they have pulled out Barrat’s work but have altered the code.
