How Christie’s Bets on Technology While Siding with Trump and Musk

Today is February 14, but instead of thinking about love, we are thinking about how evil might win at the Munich Security Conference.

My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love // Painted in 1990, it has become one of the best known pieces of Berlin Wall graffiti art. The painting depicts Leonid Brezhnevand Erich Honecker in a socialist fraternal kiss, reproducing a photograph taken in 1979 during the 30th anniversary celebration of the foundation of the German Democratic Republic.

But evil is not only attacking there.

Christie’s is launching its first AI art auction, Augmented Intelligence, which they claim is the first major auction dedicated entirely to works created with AI models. The event will take place in New York. // source

We live in a time when social media and technology can change political regimes in just a few clicks (well done, ELON). A time when the creative class has the power to challenge politicians and their ignorance by stirring emotions and shifting public attention.

I have nothing against artists using AI as a tool, but I am against it becoming a way to “cancel the creative class”. Until we establish clear regulations and ethical standards & rules for its use, we should not accept AI as the new norm.

Do you believe it is possible? LOL.

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Supporting a technology that allows people to quickly and effortlessly generate not only fake art but also fake content is highly irresponsible. It risks becoming yet another tool for silencing the “class of dissenters”.

I understand that Christie’s, like Trump, is only interested in money. But we must remember that cancel culture could eventually reach them too.

By embracing AI, Christies is aligning itself with the agendas of Elon Musk and Trump -not because they truly believe in it, but because it’s s easier to side with them than to resist.

But we know one thing for sure: for Trump, money is all that matters - and at least we know he doesn’t even like art (and everyone who works with it?)

To make way for Trump Tower, another building, on the same site, occupied by a high-end department store called Bonwit Teller, had to be demolished – not without controversy. After agreeing to donate two historic Art Deco friezes, which decorated that building’s exterior, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Trump balked at the cost of saving them, and reneged on his promise. “So,” as he put it in The Art of the Deal, “I ordered my guys to rip them down.” // source

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