New reporting by the Financial Times details the recent rise in art forgeries fueled by generative AI tools. Specifically, the outlet reports that art owners are using documents generated by AI in order to “prove” the authenticity and provenance of various pieces, to the frustration of fine art underwriters and brokers. In the art world, provenance is the record of ownership of a specific piece, allowing collectors and art brokers to trace a work’s lineage. Though the documents “seemed convincing,” clues in the metadata led the adjuster to conclude that the entire art collection was a fake. In other cases, collectors used AI to find provenance of various works in reference databases — results that the tech hallucinated.