AI-Generated Portrait Sells for $432,500 in an Auction First

  • Print on canvas is the brainchild of a Paris-based collective
  • Christie’s had estimated it would fetch as little as $7,000
Portrait of Edmond de Belamy, from La Famille de BelamySource: Christie’s

It’s signed by the artist: min G max D Ex[log(D(x))] + Ez[log(1-D(G(z)))].

A portrait created by artificial intelligence fetched $432,500 at Christie’s in New York on Thursday, the first time a computer-generated artwork was offered by a major auction house.