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First AI-generated Art Sold at Auction in 2018

In 2018, a digital artwork created using a neural network was sold at Christie's auction house in New York for $432,500. The artwork, titled "Edmond de Belamy," was generated by a French art collective called Obvious, who used a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to create the piece. The sale marked the first time an AI-generated art piece was sold at a major auction house, sparking debate about the role of artificial intelligence in the art world.