8 February 2025
Cancel the Christie's AI Art Auction

Nicole Sales Giles & Sebastian Sanchez

Christie’s, New York

Dear Nicole and Sebastian,

We are writing to express serious concern over your upcoming auction of AI art at Christie’s.

Many of the artworks you plan to auction were created using AI models that are known to be trained on copyrighted work without a license. These models, and the companies behind them, exploit human artists, using their work without permission or payment to build commercial AI products that compete with them.

Your support of these models, and the people who use them, rewards and further incentivizes AI companies’ mass theft of human artists’ work.

We ask that, if you have any respect for human artists, you cancel the auction.

Yours sincerely,

The undersigned artists

6,530
signatures
5,681 verified
  1. Reid Southen, Concept Artist
  2. Ian Klarer, Illustrator, LOUISVILLE
  3. Sami Sadek, Saffron Walden
  4. Arturo García, Freelance artist, Independent, Santiago
  5. Marie J, Illustrator, Paris
  6. Janet Villarreal, San Nicolás
  7. Karla Ortiz, Artist, Self, San Francisco
  8. Marge Nelk, Artist, Freelancer, Tartu
  9. Luke Neumann, Filmmaker/Founder, Overlai, Oregon, USA
  10. Luigi, Designer, Self-employed, Berlin
  11. Andie, Creator
  12. Ivan Anic, Motion GFX Artist, Los Angeles
  13. Donovan Martin, n/a, n/a, irvine
  14. Ed Newton-Rex, Founder, Fairly Trained, Palo Alto
  15. BJ Timberlake, Environment Artist, Rockwall
  16. Thomas Bessestte, Author & Illustrator, Independent, Winnipeg
  17. Jennifer, Artist, Houston
  18. Christopher Olsen, Artist, Los Angeles
  19. Tore Bernhoft, Freelance artist, Oslo
  20. Tyler Dow, Artist, Van Nuys
...
5,641 more
verified signatures
  1. Brian Smee, Designer/Artist, Seattle
  2. Rone Waugh, Artist, Waugh Art, Henley
  3. Carrie Prince, Non profit director, Teknowave, Ottawa
  4. Gabriella Olsom, MLS, Houston
  5. Nour, Illustrator, etc, Cairo
  6. Stefan à Wengen, Painter, Writer, Düsseldorf
  7. Andrew Adebayo, Researcher / Collector, Chicago, IL
  8. Jose Camarena, Attorney, City Law School, London
  9. Saman, Artist, Lahore
  10. Noah Trexler, Damascus
  11. Julia Cleric, QA Analyst, Camas
  12. Adam Mulcahy, Artist, AJM Art, London
  13. Arjun, Artist, Viz Art Studio, Northborough
  14. Угпут, Artist, Minsk
  15. Marton Bodo, Freelance artist, Budapest
  16. Csinos, Animation artist, Argentina, Buenos Aires
  17. Liza, student, Zaporizhzhia
  18. Annie, Graphic Designer
  19. Corinne Van Houten, CORINNE HOUTEN, Sacramento
  20. Caelan Bassett, CEO, MetaFurs LLC, CARLISLE