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Inside the Emerging AI Art Market

A growing but fragmented market for AI-generated art is taking shape, spanning NFTs, physical museum installations, and stock image platforms. Artist SHL0MS exposed anti-AI bias by selling a real Monet cropped of its signature as an NFT for $40,000. Refik Anadol's Dataland, the world's first generative AI museum in Los Angeles, sold 1,000 AI data sculptures at $5,000 each in 34 minutes. Stanford research shows AI images boosted stock platform sales 80% while crowding out traditional contributors. Curators like the Whitney's Christiane Paul draw a sharp line between prompt-generated images and serious AI art, which involves training custom models and building control systems — work they describe as far harder than traditional media.