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

6,539
signatures
5,694 verifiziert
  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
...
5,654 more
verified signatures
  1. Noah Trexler, Damascus
  2. Julia Cleric, QA Analyst, Camas
  3. Adam Mulcahy, Artist, AJM Art, London
  4. Arjun, Artist, Viz Art Studio, Northborough
  5. Угпут, Artist, Minsk
  6. Marton Bodo, Freelance artist, Budapest
  7. Csinos, Animation artist, Argentina, Buenos Aires
  8. Liza, student, Zaporizhzhia
  9. Annie, Graphic Designer
  10. Corinne Van Houten, CORINNE HOUTEN, Sacramento
  11. Caelan Bassett, CEO, MetaFurs LLC, CARLISLE
  12. Cristina Mihalachi, Waltham Cross
  13. Cristina Mihalachi, Cambridge
  14. Corina Karstenberg, Artist, Studio Corina Karstenberg, Maastricht
  15. Paula Francisca Garcia Davila, Student, Santa Cruz School, Buenos Aires
  16. Ashleigh K, Student, Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin
  17. Eden Pardo, Student, SD
  18. Philippe Chehab, Illustrator, Paris
  19. Benjamin Bradford, Glen Burnie
  20. Celia Rabinovitch, Artist & art historian, Celia Rabinovitch Studio, Winnipeg
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