https://www.cnet.com/news/ai-made-portrait-sells-at-christies-auction-for-432500/

The portrait was created by Obvious, a French art collective, and marketed by Christie's as the first AI-made painting sold at an auction, the Times said. The work sold for the same price as Pablo Picasso's linocut "Buste de femme d'apres Cranach le Jeune." Andy Warhol's screen-print series "Myths" also sold at the auction, for $780,500. 

Not everyone is happy about the sale. Some criticized the methods Obvious used, saying the Generative Adversarial Network algorithm (GAN) it employed has been used by artists for years, according to CNN. Mario Klingemann, an artist known for using machine learning, told the Times that "Edmond de Belamy" was like "a connect-the-dots children's painting."