Art & experimental Human-directed
Portrait of Edmond de Belamy
The first AI-generated artwork sold by a major auction house: a blurred portrait signed with the model's loss function, sold at Christie's for 432,500 dollars.
Where the human came in
The Paris collective trained the network on fifteen thousand portraits, chose this output, printed and framed it, and wrote the fictional Belamy family around it.
Why it is not slop
A landmark more than a masterpiece. It forced the art market to decide whether a chosen output is a work, and the credit dispute over the borrowed code is part of the lesson.
Seed entry: written from public sources and awaiting editorial review.