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How AI is hijacking art history

  • Written by Sonja Drimmer, Associate Professor of Medieval Art, University of Massachusetts Amherst
How AI is hijacking art historyArt historians have long used traditional X-rays, X-ray fluorescence or infrared imaging to better understand artists' techniques.Metropolitan Museum of Art/Wikimedia Commons

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