AI Is Trying to Take Over Art Authentication, but Long-time Experts Are Skeptical

Art Recognition CEO Carina Popovici says AI can do the job faster and more cheaply using just photos.

Hephaestus Analytical is a London -based tech company that integrates AI analysis and machine learning trained from sampled data sets, alongside scientific tests, provenance research, and "connoisseurly expertise" to analyze works.

Christie Sotheby declined to comment on the use of AI in art authentication.

AI only produces a probability of how likely a painting is to have been created by a particular artist.

Hephaestus 's AI needs only 30 images of an artist's work to train its AI to authenticate a painting.

Art Recognition uses a "standalone AI " in which humans and AI curate the results, but execute no human judgment in the actual authenticity evaluation.

Art Historians say the future of art authentication lies in collaboration between experts and AI .

Art Recognition's AI has been peer-reviewed, but Hephaestus 's CEO is skeptical.

Art historian Bendor Grosvenor says he is wary of AI , but believes it will play an increasingly important role in identifying who painted what, and when.

Art Historian : "At the moment, however, the track record of AI attributions is patchy, to say the.