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

3,908
signatures
3,393 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
...
3,353 more
verified signatures
  1. Ivan Savchenkov, Zelenograd
  2. MASAMI YAMAMOTO, Artist, independent, Kanazawa
  3. Jennie Bertone, Fiber artist, Berkeley
  4. Wei, Freelancer, Singapore
  5. Kevin Liu
  6. Amanda Crowley, Illustrator, Everett
  7. The Gil-Monster, Pipe cleaner horror artist, Chenille Macabre, Rochester
  8. Allison Anderson, Author, Fort Collins
  9. Satria Fandi, Illustrator, Jakarta
  10. Megan Zamie, Arlington
  11. Tyler Jones, artist, Asheville
  12. Aileen, IT systems administrator, Danbury
  13. Olesya Tivuel, Illustrator, Bangkok
  14. Charlott, Artist, Seattle
  15. Kiru, Artist, Singapore
  16. Alicia Bee, Illustrator, Brooklyn
  17. Ralph Raad, Art Director, Detroit
  18. Diana, Artist, Singapore
  19. Kyle Henscheid, Writer, n/a, Huntington Beach
  20. Regan Fisher, Curriculum Coordinator, ASU FIDM, West Hollywood