The creation is the first self-generative AI artwork to go to auction created and only the second piece of art to be sold that uses AI. Artificial intelligence generates the images from scratch and produces an endless sequence of unique male and female portraits that have never been seen before and will never appear again. The artwork's predecessor, The Portrait of Edmond de Belamy was sold in October for £337,000, despite a guide price of only $10,000. The AI-generated 'Portrait of Edmond Belamy' depicts a slightly blurry, chubby man in a dark frock-coat and white collar. The artist's 'signature' was the algorithm that created it (pictured)The artwork is one of a group of portraits of the fictional Belamy family created by a Paris-based trio of 25-year-olds known as Obvious.

Source: Daily Mail February 08, 2019 10:52 UTC