Not to forget that the same AI tools helping investigators can also help the criminals, allowing them to manipulate an image, change a frame, digitally repair damaged areas on a painting, and, of course, fabricate false provenance documents or create realistic synthetic objects that don’t actually exist, says Carpenter. “So, AI is making things easier, while at the same time making them harder,” he says.
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