Fraudsters have started using AI to create fake documents claiming that artworks are genuine or legally owned, the Financial Times reports. According to art insurance brokers at Marsh, chatbots and big language models are being used to forge invoices, appraisal certificates and certificates of authenticity.
In other cases, it has not been a case of deliberate fraud, but rather AI hallucinating false references to a work of art, which the owner has taken to be true.
False documents are nothing new in the art world, but AI has made them more realistic and harder to detect.
