Trader consensus heavily favors no AI-generated artwork reaching a $10 million hammer price at a major house this year, reflecting the category’s persistent gap from traditional blue-chip results. Recent dedicated sales, including Christie’s 2025 Augmented Intelligence auction that totaled under $730,000 with a top lot of $277,000, and the 2024 Sotheby’s Ai-Da record near $1.08 million, show limited institutional and collector appetite once novelty fades. Ongoing copyright litigation over training data and the proliferation of accessible large language model and diffusion tools have further compressed perceived uniqueness and scarcity. A late-year surprise—such as a high-profile institutional commission or celebrity-endorsed piece—remains possible but would require an unprecedented shift in buyer sentiment within the remaining weeks.