Christie's 'Augmented Intelligence' sale and the 6,000-artist petition against it reveal something the art market has not confronted: who gets to define what counts as a work of art when authorship becomes contested at the institutional level.
Penguin Random House's mandatory AI disclosure forms and Amazon's KDP upload cap are not administrative responses — they are the opening infrastructure of a two-tier book market in which 'human authored' becomes a premium category, not a default assumption.
Amazon's cap on daily self-publishing uploads is not a solution — it is a marker: the point at which the fiction market acknowledged that machine-generated content had exceeded human curatorial capacity. What comes next will determine whether literary culture survives the infrastructure shock.