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Permalink Reply by Findbooks on January 17, 2024 at 11:25am

Troubling, very troubling - especially if you are a forger!

It has the potential to kill completely the market for any (future) autographs that are not (provable) IP's. 3rd-party authentication becomes even more redundant.

Come to think of it, even vintage autographs are affected since vintage documents are and will remain freely available for many years to come . If you fast forward 20 years and the technology has developed normally and become accessible to all - in the same way, say, that smart-phones have evolved - then how on earth are people going to be able to judge what they are buying? You are going to need DNA evidence, basically.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on January 17, 2024 at 11:36am

So far anyway, authentic signatures, secretarials, forgeries, preprints, Autopens, facsimiles, stamps etc. all have identifying characteristics. Hopefully these will as well. AI images and vocal recordings are being caught as we see in the real news. We will see what this brings.

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Permalink Reply by JK on January 17, 2024 at 11:43am

"This technology is based on a transformer model, a sophisticated type of neural network that can mimic a person’s handwriting style from just a few samples."

Personally, I'm not buying it.  The writing might look handwritten but there will have to be differences between AI and authentic writing.

This does raise an interesting question, though.  Is there a value to getting a special autograph authenticated or atleast documented now, before AI advancements muddy the waters?  Even a notarized photocopy of the autograph might be enough to create a pre-AI record.

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Permalink Reply by Knob Dylan on January 17, 2024 at 11:53am

That was my thoughts. Pay 2-3K in COA's or see what this horse shitte is all about. Bit of a quandary this AI stuff. 

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Permalink Reply by Yony Mark on January 18, 2024 at 12:00am

I'm a software developer and I can tell you almost 100% that there is no way that this will fool anyone, other than some novice autograph collectors. It's just a "new" type of forgery. 

It's a matter of time until someone creates an AI that battles this forgery :)

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