Market & strategy
How AI is changing the antiques trade
AI is accelerating the identification of comparables, revealing digital rarity, and exposing forgeries faster — but it is also flooding the market with fake provenance, AI-retouched images, and fabricated condition reports. The dealer who uses AI as a cross-check tool without trusting it blindly gains speed; the dealer who believes what AI generates loses money to better-edited lies.
The Method's take
The Method treats AI outputs as clues, never proof. An AI-generated description, price estimate, or authenticity opinion is a starting hypothesis — verify with raw photos, a written Condition Report, and category-specific coherence checks before paying. The counterfeit-pressure law still holds: the more valuable the object, the more sophisticated the fake — and AI now writes the fake's story better than most dealers write the truth.
The math
A dealer who buys on an AI-enhanced listing without requesting RAW files and a written CR risks €2,000–50,000 on a piece that looked flawless in retouched images and arrives damaged, restored, or wrong. The 24-hour Insider pass costs €100 and generates the exact due-diligence protocol and red-flag checklist for that category before the wire goes out. Annual pass €3,800 — less than one avoided mistake per year.
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