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

6,542
signatures
5,698 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
...
5,658 more
verified signatures
  1. Arjun, Artist, Viz Art Studio, Northborough
  2. Угпут, Artist, Minsk
  3. Marton Bodo, Freelance artist, Budapest
  4. Csinos, Animation artist, Argentina, Buenos Aires
  5. Liza, student, Zaporizhzhia
  6. Annie, Graphic Designer
  7. Corinne Van Houten, CORINNE HOUTEN, Sacramento
  8. Caelan Bassett, CEO, MetaFurs LLC, CARLISLE
  9. Cristina Mihalachi, Waltham Cross
  10. Cristina Mihalachi, Cambridge
  11. Corina Karstenberg, Artist, Studio Corina Karstenberg, Maastricht
  12. Paula Francisca Garcia Davila, Student, Santa Cruz School, Buenos Aires
  13. Ashleigh K, Student, Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin
  14. Eden Pardo, Student, SD
  15. Philippe Chehab, Illustrator, Paris
  16. Benjamin Bradford, Glen Burnie
  17. Celia Rabinovitch, Artist & art historian, Celia Rabinovitch Studio, Winnipeg
  18. Maria Rosca, Freelance Artist, Bucharest
  19. Josh Bartolome, Writer, Calgary
  20. Agnia Temchurina, Artist, Los Angeles