Forgery or Masterpiece? The Role of AI in the Art Authentication Debate

2023. 10. 20.

Forgery or Masterpiece? The Role of AI in the Art Authentication Debate

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Forgery or Masterpiece? The Role of AI in the Art Authentication Debate

Artificial intelligence (AI) is causing a stir in the British art scene. AI has definitively resolved a 40-year-old controversy surrounding a work, attributing it to the Italian master Raphael Sanzio. However, this AI-based authentication process has stirred controversy again as some art experts question its reliability, and more recently, Swiss AI has suggested a high probability that the same artwork may be a forgery, further fueling the debate. AI is now moving beyond the creation of art into the realm of evaluating its worth.

According to a report in The Guardian on the 9th, a Swiss startup ‘ArtRecognition’ employed its in-house developed AI for painting analysis to evaluate the disputed work, ‘de Brécy Tondo.’ The results indicated that there is an 85% or greater probability that the artwork is not authentic. ArtRecognition explained, “We reached this conclusion by training our AI on other works by the same artist, taking into account elements like composition, color palette, and brushwork.” However, Professor Hassan Ugail from the University of Bradford, which previously authenticated the work as genuine using AI, countered, saying, “Our AI can analyze artworks more deeply than the human eye. After comparing details like brushwork and pigments, there is compelling evidence that this work belongs to Raphael.” Currently, the controversial artwork is on public display at the Cartwright Hall Art Gallery in Bradford, England.

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